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HTC Desire shows its dark side

By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 6:41 PM

Smartphones, nay mobile phones in general, are personal devices. So, if you’re a smartphone manufacturer, it’s important to make sure that your headlining handsets are available in a variety of color variants. The Nexus One-esque HTC Desire is no exception – it was recently spotted with a Silver color scheme. Well, today we get to put eyes on the HTC Desire in Black trim. It’s just like the original Graphite-colored HTC Desire, but it sports a slightly revised optical trackpad.

The HTC Desire is flaunting its darker color scheme over on Amazon France’s website. It’s currently listed on pre-order status with a €503 (about $680) price tag. From the looks of it, this Black version sports the exact same feature set as the original. That means it’ll hit the ground running with a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel camera, 3G data, WiFi, GPS, accelerometer, digital compass and the Android 2.1 OS. The only difference that we can see from Amazon’s image is a slightly modified optical trackpad. Gone is the metallic “ring” around the trackpad, replaced by an optical trackpad without any bezel. It’s not a big difference, but it’s interesting that there’s any difference across color variants of the same device.

It’s not clear if the Black Desire pictured by Amazon is accurate. We’ll have to wait and see what this variant of HTC latest Android handset will indeed sport a different trackpad from the other two that we’ve already seen. With a little luck, we’ll see the Graphite, Silver and Black-colored Desire coming to AT&T in the near future.

[Via: Ubergizmo]

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  • rom

    i dont think the picture is accurate. this is the picture of the 2010 htc lineup that was released late 2009 of the then known “bravo”

  • mrk

    rom is correct. This image is from the leaked product brochure from 2009, and does not represent the current (final) build of the Desire. In addition to the different trackpad, notice the speaker grill and proximity sensor. The seller is merely, ehm, a liar.

  • i106

    That is correct.
    Picture is old.

  • podge

    “The seller is merely, ehm, a liar” – what about the video’s that have come out in the last day or two showing a black Desire – just coincidence?

  • Nuno

    t guy who posted that video states its a prototype, take a look at t comments! N it is t Bravo render that came in t 2010 brochure (n also real pics since Jan this year), so it might b from bk then n meanwhile it got changed 2 assume todays Desire standard color!

    Hope not though, im gonna hold ordering t Graphite one until more info on this black 1 comes out! :)