The 3.7-inch panel on the HTC Desire is billed as its key feature. A supposed iPhone-bashing feat of engineering that will make watching movies on the move even better. So can it live up to the heady expectations we have? Read our HTC Desire review: Screen and we’ll dose you up with all the deets.
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HTC Desire review: Software
HTC Desire review: Design and Build
HTC Desire review: Overall verdict
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The 480 x 800 WVGA screen on the HTC Desire is marvellous. Even just looking at the colourful rendering of HTC Sense will make you coo and that’s before you’ve given it a proper workout by watching video and browsing round the web. Being AMOLED, it’s remarkably bright and glare is kept to a minimum too. It works particularly well in bright light, much better than the screen on the iPhone. You won’t find yourself squinting desperately to see your latest messages or tweets.
Video is where the 3.7-inch screen comes into its own. Being a touch bigger than the iPhone and its stablemate, the HTC Legend, clips look absolutely stunning and whir up in record time thanks to the Snapdragon processor. The resolution is high enough to render TV shows and films well and it’s every bit as good as chowing down on programmes on an iPod touch.
Prodding at the screen is every bit as pleasurable as gawping at it. The multitouch skills baked into it mean that the touch tech is every bit as responsive as that of Apple’s blower, if not better. The onscreen keyboard is the very best we’ve used, better than the Legend’s by dint of its size. The haptics to register every stroke are assured and welcome and mistakes are rare. It’s so good that frankly we never had to fall back on the touchpad down the bottom.
The inclusion of pinch-to-zoom is great to see, even if it has caused legal ructions with Cupertino. That’s not our concern though and if you love touchscreen tech that just works, then the HTC Desire is for you.
We’d go as far to suggest that the Desire’s screen bests that of the Google Nexus One. Yes it has the same clever tech, but HTC’s added skills, from the keyboard to its hook ups with features like Leap, really do make it a stunner. If you can spare the cash and want to stay ahead of the pack, the HTC Desire is where it’s at.
Read the rest of our HTC Desire review:
HTC Desire review: Software
HTC Desire review: Design and Build
HTC Desire review: Overall verdict
HTC Desire Froyo review
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