The HTC Desire, at first glance, has a near identical design to the already popular Google Nexus One. The internal specifications are very similar too. There is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512MB of memory and 256MB of RAM. It also comes with the same 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, which if you’ve seen the Nexus One, you’ll agree is no bad thing. This device also has a proximity sensor and a compass so it’s readily usable for augmented reality apps as well as HSDPA. The handset is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ready. There’s a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and the ability to capture 800x 480 video, which is slightly boosted from that of its predecessor. Both offer screen shortcuts to options like home, menu, back and search. So what’s the difference between the two phones? There actually aren’t that many because HTC actually manufactured both phones. So, although, the Nexus One is officially a Google phone, for all intents and purposes it’s actually a HTC handset. But HTC wouldn’t ship an identical product with a different name though would they? Of course they wouldn’t! The mechanical trackball on the front of the Nexus One as well as the touch sensitive buttons on the screen have disappeared and been replaced with hard shortcut keys and a button that offers better optical navigation. This change has been appeared across the industry, with the BlackBerry jumping on the same bandwagon. Trackballs are prone to breakage and nobody who’s tied to an 18 or 24 month contract wants to be stuck with a broken trackball. You’ll get the HTC Sense UI which is also found on the HTC Hero if you purchase the HTC Desire. You obviously won’t be getting that on the Nexus One as it’s not an HTC product. The Sense UI is faster and much improved, incorporates other contact features, and serves to make the Nexus One look even more boring than it did before. Sense sports a “helicopter view” which works about the same way as Expose works on a Mac. Pinch the homescreen and it will display all the homescreen pages that you have running at the moment. You can tap the screen to capture the one you need or pinch back out because Desire supports multi-touch. Which should you buy? There’s really not a whole lot of difference between them. It mostly just comes down to personal preference. But if you really can’t make up your mind, the fact that the HTC Desire was released after the Google Nexus One, may give it a little bit of an advantage.

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