Holiday Gift Guide »

HTC Desire: The Nexus One with a dash of Sense UI, finally official; hitting T-Mobile UK March 26th

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 3:35 AM

We’ve been seeing leaked images of the HTC Desire/Bravo for several months now, and the latest leak late night pretty much hit the nail on the head, so we’re glad to see this thing finally become official. As expected, the Desire is nothing more than a Google Nexus One, but with the HTC Sense UI that many are claiming to be critical to having a proper Android experience.

It’s 119 mm tall, 60 mm wide, 11.9 mm thick, with a weight of 135 grams. Where that extra 5 grams comes from is a mystery since the Google Phone weighs only 130 grams. It runs the latest version of Android, 2.1, has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 576 MB of RAM, quadband GSM/EDGE, dual band (900 MHz, 2100 MHz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, 1400 mAh battery, WiFi, GPS, accelerometer, compass, and all the other stuff typically associated with a high end smartphone.

HTC say this device will come out in early Q2, and T-Mobile UK recently shot out a tweet saying that they’re going to be selling this device starting March 26th. No word on USA availability. It would be funny to see Verizon get this device as American customers would then be forced to chose the vanilla Android experience on T-Mobile USA, or the beefed up, sensed up Android experience on Verizon. Then again why would Verizon offer this device if they put so much of their marketing resources behind the Droid?

Will is going to be talking to HTC in less than an hour, so expect some hands on photo and video pretty soon. More press photos after the jump.




About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Tammy

    Guess whose on TMobile UK..Oh yeh baby. I’m loving the look of this already. Can;t wait for the video.

  • Brennschluss

    One would suspect that verizon has told Motorola that the Droid will have to fight it out with any HTC phone that makes the cut into Verizon’s corral. It’s to Verizon’s advantage to be seen by their customer base as providng the best selection of smart phones. Their best marketing strategy is to give the subscriber as many choices as possible, since they can’t offer them what most subscribers want, i.e. an Iphone. This way they can let their subscriber’s feel in control and vote for the Iphone killer. It’s a very new concept for Verizon to cede control to the subscriber! Do ya think they used an outside marketing consulting firm? Wanna bet?