HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z First Look

HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z

HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z

HTC Desire HD - The first impression on the HTC Desire HD is the size, HTC Desire HD has 4.3 inches LCD display and that will make you feel more comfortable when using software keyboard on HTC Desire HD. HTC Desire HD is a big size phone like the HTC EVO 4G but it’s not too heavy – it’s only 11.8mm thin. With aluminum body on HTC Desire HD you will feel sturdy when you hold this phone in your hands and like others super-fast phone HTC Desire HD has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU processor, 8 Megapixel with duel LED flash and 720p video recording. The others main point on HTC Desire HD is the latest version of HTC Sense, HTC Sense 2.0 and Dolby Surround speakers and earphones.

HTC Desire HD

HTC Desire Z - Finally, HTC release the latest QWERTY phone to the Android phone market. HTC Desire Z coming with slide-out QWERTY keyboard with hinged design. HTC Desire Z is slimmer than HTC Desire HD ,and that very easy for using QWERTY keyboard and interact on the screen at the same time. There are more feature in QWERTY keyboard on HTC Desire Z that is a good key space and 2 customizable buttons on the bottom right. HTC Desire Z also has HTC Sense 2.0 like HTC Desire HD.

HTC Desire Z

HTC Sense 2.0 - The latest version of HTC Sense which coming with HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z bring more feature to these phones. The key feature for HTC Sense 2.0 is htcsense.com which gives HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z owners more interactive in online space like installing application to the phone from your pc, back up, tracking, locating, locking and “self-destruct on phone data". You can also find nearly Android phone around you even if that phone is on silent mode or you can set your phone on divert from website which can helps you when forget your phone at office.

HTC Sense 2.0 on HTC Desire Z

There’s more feature on HTC Sense 2.0 – some feature are available via app on Android Market but more feature on HTC Sense 2.0 still very useful for HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z owners. Here is others HTC Sense 2.0 feature :

-Super-fast boot in ten seconds
- Customizable status bar and home screen by using skin and theme – yon can also preview it before applying
-Reject call by flip the phone
-Cache option for maps you can use maps even if offline, save your time for loading a maps while zoom in and out. HTC Sense 2.0 also include some feature to the compass which can point to where you need to want go.
-Long press on a word and you can highlight on a word and search it through Google, Wikipedia and more.
-Smart volume adjust – the phone will ring louder when it in your bag and ring lower when it was out
-Show latest update from social network site of your friend when they call.
-Get a layer at the bottom of the screen instead of phone-in screen when your receive a call while using the maps or navigation application
-Connect your phone with TV via DNLA
-Improved camera and gallery application – more beautiful gallery display which allows you to crop and adding effects images on your phone. You can using a bar on screen for digitally zoom and when you upload an image to Facebook you can tag friends too.
-Built-in Ebook function



The weak point on HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z are no front-facing camera on both phones –in the time that video chat is the important feature on smart phone – for missing front-facing camera is very disappointed. Others weak point on HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z : no kickstand for good quality screen and Dolby surround phone so, what should we do when want to watch a movie on the phones and no dedicated camera button. One another thing about HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z that’s you can’t using fast boot when remove the battery out but this isn’t a main point. However, HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z still be the high-end phones and working well with the new HTC Sense UI.

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  1. Your review is very informative.. Thanks
    -Maneesh.
    Gotocamera.com