The one thing you'll never see on a stock Nexus One is a skinned interface like Sense or TouchWiz -- they're just not Google enough for a phone commissioned and sold directly by Mountain View. Thing is, Sense on Android has plenty of fans, and the mere thought of running it on something with as much oomph as a 1GHz Snapdragon brings tears to our eyes. The solution? The Desire, of course, featuring virtually all of the original Nexus One's mojo with a little less direct Google support, a little more Sense, and a trackpad in place of the old trackball. The 3.7-inch AMOLED display carries over, but things get interesting on the software side: not only do you get HTC's freshly-updated Sense with Friend Stream, you also get Flash 10.1 compatibility, which means you need every clock cycle of that 1GHz more than you ever thought you would. Unfortunately, North Americans, you're getting screwed on this one for the time being -- HTC is only announcing that it'll be "broadly available" throughout Europe and Asia in the early part of the second quarter, while it'll come to Australia via Telstra. Supersonic, care to save us?
Update: Promo video is now after the break (thanks, O'Neill!), and our hands-on with the device at MWC can be found here.
Finally .... a phone that's going to be available in Europe ! I've been waiting to upgrade to a Google Nexus ...but this is way better . Can't wait for it to hit Europe! HTC rules !
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posted February 16th 2010 5:30AM
That Supersonic link leads us to a search of HTC Incredible. I call bait and switch on this!
Finally .... a phone that's going to be available in Europe ! I've been waiting to upgrade to a Google Nexus ...but this is way better . Can't wait for it to hit Europe! HTC rules !
Can't be just me who's noticed but the Desire has 576MB RAM on htc so more actually than the Nexus One
Called it! Go me!
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/16/htc-desire-your-nexus-one-with-sense-and-flash-has-arrived/comments/25539724/
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Oops. Wrong thread. NOT go me.
Mods, please delete. Thanks.
in another post it said it was coming to at&t