Rumored HTC Desire HD specs surface: 4.3-inch screen, 8-megapixel camera
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 15th 2010 1:59PM
posted July 15th 2010 1:59PM
We didn't have a ton of details on the so-called HTC Ace when it turned up in a leaked roadmap last week, but a fresh set of rumors are now suggesting that the Ace is actually the Desire HD, which will reportedly pack a number of HD-esque upgrades over the standard Desire. That includes a larger 4.3-inch WVGA screen -- no word if it's AMOLED or SLCD -- and an 8-megapixel camera with 720p video recording. Other rumored details include Android 2.2, 4GB of internal storage, the same 1GHz Snapdragon as the current Desire and, perhaps most interestingly, talk of a "unibody aluminum design." Unfortunately, the rumors still don't include any actual images of the device, but there's still plenty of time for those to leak out before the supposed October release.
The more the merrier!
@NuklearPanda
Yup. This looks like the next top dog.
@NuklearPanda
the Droid army grows....Looks like 1Ghz might be the standard for Android phones. Im guessing its for gingerbread and beyond.
@NuklearPanda HDMI out, FF camera, HSDPA+ are minimums to be considered HD.
@NuklearPanda I guess. Im getting burnt out by the sheer amount of htc hardware. what would make more sense is the same few phones across all carriers.
to each their own I guess.
@Son Of a Gun so when we will get the first REAL HD phone??
I mean 1280x720 and not 800x480???
@NuklearPanda
...same Snapdragon with its lousy GPU? on a bigger screen? zzzz sorry, old by the time October rolls around. The X is showing NOW what the next round of processors should look like.
@zepfloyd And the HD2 was showing it back in March. Back in November '09 in Europe. HTC is kicking the rest of the market's ass and has been for some time now.
@zepfloyd
hummingbird in the galaxy s phones > the omap in droidx
same thing goes for the gpu
@DefPoet You realize it's the exact same processor....the GPU is what's different.
@Seven2k If they can actually manufacture enough of it, seeing how much trouble Sprint is having getting the 4.3" screen for the EVO.
@NuklearPanda Whats up with HTC not STUFFING more OnBoard Storage like Moto and Sammy? . . .
@NuklearPanda
HTC has a new phone every week.. I'm not complaining because I like them but seriously it's hard to keep up
@metafor
no its not the same processor
snapdraogn the omap adn hummingbird are based off the same things but none of them are the same hummingbird is more kin to apples chip than it is to the omap
@NuklearPanda
Yes! the EVO with GSM flavor!
@NuklearPanda Screen-wise? 50-inches of pocket-friendliness?
And here I thought 4 inches was way too much with 3.7 being at the edge of pocket-able device. And HTC already Desires 4.3 inches...
@NuklearPanda
If this has GSM quadband with 3G, then this is finally the GSM 'droid I've been looking for. And I can stop bidding on HD2's to hack Eclair+Sense on to them.
And my EVO 4G (currently owned) and Epic 4G) will have a beefy cousin for trips overseas.
@DefPoet
Not according to Quadrant which lists the Droid X (OMAP) quite a bit above the Galaxy S (Hummingbird) both with 2.1
@NuklearPanda Why does HTC keep coming out with new model every week which is only slightly different and with a name which is more suitable for Perfume or Condom?
@genesis You can't have the same phones across all carriers. That would force the carriers to compete on price and service, and not hardware, and lord knows they could never do that. This is why Verizon cancelled their contract for the Nexus One.
@zepfloyd
Exactly. OMAP is faster than humming bird clock for clock.
@NuklearPanda Agreed. I think the device should be called the Legend HD or Legend XL. I'm giddy, I will by this phone, Tmobile 3G or not
@zepfloyd
quadrant test the cpu gpu memory and more and is not a good indicator in judging one parts speed
The memory the omap uses is faster which lets every transfer quicker
hummingbird is fast than the omap cpu vs cpu with the the other variables in there the omap scores higher even though the gpu and cpu the humming bird uses are faster. Slow memory will slow everything down. An i7 hexacore cpu and a nvidia 480 paired with slow as ram will not score the best either
@DefPoet They're not just "based" off the same CPU, they're the exact same CPU; the ARM Cortex-A8. Neither TI nor Samsung have licenses that allow them to modify the design. They're only allowed to use it and perform power optimizations on it and to try to squeeze more clock frequency. The only thing different is the other parts of the SoC and the primary thing that's noticeable is the different GPU's.
@hamoor
Hopefully by the end of the year. Those rumored Gingerbread specs supporting higher res sounded mighty nice. Can you imagine a nice 4.3 inch, Tegra 2, slide out keyboard, 1080p camera, and a 1280x768 SAMOLED?
*Drools*
@EGOvoruhk
Can you imagine a phone with 9mm thickness, but has a QWERTY keyboard (Toshiba can do it in 11mm, HTC surely can in 9mm), 256GB internal flash hard drive, with 32GB microSD slot, a 1080p camcorder and a 8-10MP camera WITH low-light photography abilities (hopefully it somehow has a larger sensor to fight out the noise), music quality of a Sony Walkman, or a Cowon S9 (no iPod, or another HTC music quality), a 5" 16:9 inch screen but no side bezels (that will make the phone almost of the size of an iPhone), a 1.5-2 Ghz dual core processor and a 1080p screen (i.e. around 400-450 ppi screen) with adjustable resolution, the screen should be scratch resistant (gorilla glass) and dirt resistant. The phone GPU should be amazing and it should have LTE, WiMax, WiFi. The phone should run Windows Phone 7. WP7 should include 3 options - no multitasking, virtual multitasking, full multitasking. And another 3 options - no copy paste, smart copy paste & full copy paste. It should also BAN all those fart apps and even though the number of apps would be less, it should have the highest number of useful, high-quality and unique apps! Additionally, it could also boot Android 2.3
If you have to imagine something, why not imagine this.
@krishansy
Oh and did I say that it should have a battery life of 1 week per charge, or no battery! (solar power)
@metafor
I'm fairly certain you are wrong. AFAIK, Samsung's Hummingbird is indeed a heavily modified Cortex-A8 akin to Snapdragon, and not a stock core like the OMAP3.
@zepfloyd yep and the four horseman thats beginning it's release into the Android world from Samsung one up the Droid X. The nature of Android I guess!
@hamoor
Actually, the REAL HD phone you speak of must have a screen of 1280 x 768 to match the current aspect ratio of most android phones out there...
@krishansy
Because what I said is actually feasible and exists?..
@hamoor
Huge Display?
@kapanak Why? Android doesn't have or need a standard aspect ratio.
@NuklearPanda lets hope its on sprint
@hamoor um iphones getting closer. 960-640p
@DefPoet it's also a good idea to load identical ROMS onto the phone and do the benchmark to get proper results. Notice how much better the Nexus performs on Froyo as opposed to Eclair.
@genesis
Yeah me too. I'd like to see them concentrate on just a couple of awesome phones per year and then back them with actual, on time, updates.
Are these huge ass buttons for real?
@magadget
Yes? They're really not that large...
@magadget
That's a picture of a desire. And the buttons are not that large.
@magadget
Aren't you the Apple fanboy I've seen a lot of lately. Ugh. Shut the fuck up.
@magadget
They're certainly each smaller than the iPhone's menu button...
Good for You guys.. an Evo for the world.... Well almost.
@Son Of a Gun
I'm guessing your referring to the 4g? If so, european carriers have speeds like 3 times safety than u.s. 3g. So it is pretty much an evo.
@jfreckles23
thats BS
@Son Of a Gun this news makes perfect sense, while the US have multiple smart phones with >3.7" screens, the rest of the world are left with the Desire (which is already very popular in the UK) and the N1 which have smaller screens.
Makes sense that HTC are going to make their first European model a re-branded Desire which is already very popular over here, helping quick market adoption.
I really am loving the idea of a unibody aluminum body, sounds like the desire and the legend combined with a bigger screen. Perfect.
@Son Of a Gun This phone isn't all that much of an upgrade. Just a bigger screen and more mega-pixels.
If they're gonna call it the Desire HD, I better see that Pixel Qi on this device, with that awesome pixel density they were talking about.
@tracdoor Didn't US Cellular had plans to get the Desire to this part of the globe?
It's a shame it's taking so long for the ORIGINAL Desire, since all the reviews are outstanding... I guess the D HD will have even better.
AT&T, please tell me you'll have it.
@tracdoor
Well Europe had the HD2 with 4.3" before the US, same for the Streak and you can always get the Galaxy S which has been released in Europe long time ago!
@Neuralgia
its strange that europe doesnt have it.
i was surprised when us here in australia got it.