We’ve already seen the powerful telephony, multimedia and camera features of HTC Desire. Now lets have a look at the connectivity features and some of the applications comes with HTC Desire. Part of this article also contains numerous performance and battery tips to make your HTC Desire more useful and snappy.
Lets see what makes HTC Desire a useful device for your everyday needs.
Connectivity
Desire offers USB v2.0 connectivity via a microUSB port, Bluetooth v2.1 (including transfers) with A2DP support and Wi-Fi.
HTC Desire is equipped with quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE securing worldwide roaming capabilities and dual-band (900/2100 MHz) 3G with HSDPA. The HSDPA is performs at 7.2Mbps and the HSUPA can reach up to 2Mbps.
Internet tethering is also available via the microUSB port and it’s really easy to activate. Just select tethering when the handset prompts you to select how to connect to your computer and that’s it.
HTC have also kept in mind about the people without a data plan and allow you to explicitly forbid the handset to access the mobile network for data.
The built-in microSD card slot can also be used as a data transfer tool (like a card-reader) with some pretty impressive speed.
The user interface is pretty much minimalistic at first sight. With pinch-zooming enabled you don’t even need the zoom buttons which I have seen on most other Android devices.
HTC Desire browser also comes with double tap zooming and text reflow. Which make it extremely easy to read even longer texts on the phone display.
The minimalist UI is still pretty powerful. Hit the menu key and six keys pops up. You can open a new tab, switch tabs, refresh the page, go forward, open bookmarks and so on. The last button extends even more options (text copying, find on page, etc.).
Even more, HTC Desire has Flash support in its web browser. Its performance is much better than the Legend. Sadly it is not perfect and you can expect it to run simpler flash animations or games only. Metacafe and Vimeo videos are not working in this version of Flash.
Also remember, Android 2.1 browser supports HTML5 and its video tag.
Productivity Applications
The HTC Desire pre-loaded with the usual set of organizing apps. Such as document viewer (which handles office files just fine) and PDF Viewer.
The Quickoffice app which supports viewing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, including the Office 2007 versions. If you need to edit documents then you need to get a paid application though.
The Document viewer is integrated with you email application which makes it very useful when you want to view an attachment.
The calendar has four different types of view – daily, weekly, monthly and agenda. Adding a new event is quick and easy, and you can also set an alarm to act as a reminder. The calendar can integrate itself to your Google Calendar.
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