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One of the biggest announcements from MWC 2010 this past week has been the official debut of the HTC Desire, instantly dubbed the Google Nexus One with HTC Sense. With HTC the OEM parent behind both theirs and the Google-branded smartphone, would-be buyers (and potentially remorseful Nexus One owners) are already looking for the differentiating factors between the two; check out our head-to-head comparison after the cut.
In terms of specifications, the two devices are closer to twins than anything else. Each has a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, Android 2.1 OS and a slimline candybar form-factor. The Nexus One is slightly thinner – though we’re talking less than half a millimetre here – most likely due to its receding chinline, versus the Desire’s moderate curve. On that chin is one of the more obvious differences: the Desire has an optical joystick, the Nexus One a more traditional trackball.
It also looks like HTC have tinkered with the power management in the Desire, too, since with the same 1,400mAh battery the two smartphones manage significantly different runtimes. 3G standby for the Nexus One is up to 250 hours, compared to up to 360 hours for the Desire, though 3G talktime is up to 420 minutes for the Google device but 390 minutes for the HTC. Real-world use is obviously not solely comprised of voice calls, but it seems that if you want a handset for basic phone duties you should look to the Nexus One, whereas the Desire may be a better all-rounder. We’ll have to wait for a real-world review of the Desire to see if that’s actually the case.
You have to delve inside the chassis to find the main differences. The Desire lacks both the active noise cancellation and the triband HSDPA/WCDMA of the Nexus One, making do with just dualband 900/2100. That means it’s not much use – at least in terms of high-speed cellular connectivity – outside of Europe and Asia; take the Desire to the US and you’ll be stuck using quadband EDGE or hunting for WiFi hotspots. HTC told us that dropping active noise cancellation was a price consideration, but that since it would only really affect voice dictation – which is currently exclusive to the Nexus One anyway – it wouldn’t make much of a difference to Desire owners. The Desire does have more RAM – 576MB versus the Nexus One’s 512MB – and come with a bigger, 8GB microSD card in the box (the Nexus One comes with 4GB), and arguably they’ll make more of a day to day impact than noise reduction. The Nexus One has Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, compared to the Desire’s 2.1+EDR, though it’s unlikely to make much of a difference generally.
In terms of specifications, the two devices are closer to twins than anything else. Each has a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, Android 2.1 OS and a slimline candybar form-factor. The Nexus One is slightly thinner – though we’re talking less than half a millimetre here – most likely due to its receding chinline, versus the Desire’s moderate curve. On that chin is one of the more obvious differences: the Desire has an optical joystick, the Nexus One a more traditional trackball.
It also looks like HTC have tinkered with the power management in the Desire, too, since with the same 1,400mAh battery the two smartphones manage significantly different runtimes. 3G standby for the Nexus One is up to 250 hours, compared to up to 360 hours for the Desire, though 3G talktime is up to 420 minutes for the Google device but 390 minutes for the HTC. Real-world use is obviously not solely comprised of voice calls, but it seems that if you want a handset for basic phone duties you should look to the Nexus One, whereas the Desire may be a better all-rounder. We’ll have to wait for a real-world review of the Desire to see if that’s actually the case.
You have to delve inside the chassis to find the main differences. The Desire lacks both the active noise cancellation and the triband HSDPA/WCDMA of the Nexus One, making do with just dualband 900/2100. That means it’s not much use – at least in terms of high-speed cellular connectivity – outside of Europe and Asia; take the Desire to the US and you’ll be stuck using quadband EDGE or hunting for WiFi hotspots. HTC told us that dropping active noise cancellation was a price consideration, but that since it would only really affect voice dictation – which is currently exclusive to the Nexus One anyway – it wouldn’t make much of a difference to Desire owners. The Desire does have more RAM – 576MB versus the Nexus One’s 512MB – and come with a bigger, 8GB microSD card in the box (the Nexus One comes with 4GB), and arguably they’ll make more of a day to day impact than noise reduction. The Nexus One has Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, compared to the Desire’s 2.1+EDR, though it’s unlikely to make much of a difference generally.
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