HTC was traditionally a business that manufactured smartphones for other people, providing the technology and design for other brands to sell as exclusive products. However, switching from the Windows Mobile operating platform to Android saw the company develop its position not just as a manufacturer for brands like Google, with the Nexus One, but also for its own products, which most recently have included the Legend, and now the new HTC Desire.

If you compare the Desire to Google’s Nexus One, you might struggle to notice any significant differences between them. The Nexus One has a slightly better build quality with its unibody construction, but the Desire looks and feels like a solid, high end touchscreen smartphone. With easily accessible touchscreen and traditional buttons, as well as an optical trackball that doesn’t dominate the phone, you start to realize that this smartphone has plans on being more than just the Nexus One’s little cousin.

The HTC Desire complements its looks with top quality performance as well. The bright, clear images you see on the 3.7 inch AMOLED screen are delivered by a powerful 1GHz Snapdragon processor that can call on 512 MB of memory to make sure it’s able to handle just about any demands you place on it.

The HTC Desire has excellent still and video capture capabilities, thanks to the 5 megapixel camera that comes with autofocus and an LED flash. Video recording might not be in full 720p hi definition, but it is a higher resolution than the Legend and the Nexus One. The Desire also captures photographs in the wider 5:3 format, which means you get a lot more out of your camera phone photography than you do with a lot of other smartphones.

HTC switched to the Android operating system in 2009 and this phone builds on what was a smart decision, offering the 2.1 version of the increasingly popular platform. On top of this, HTC have added their own Sense user interface, which makes navigating on the Desire easy and enjoyable. With additions to the Sense interface that include Friendstream, for putting all your social networking activity in one place, and Leap, which lets you view all your different home screens at once, the HTC Desire has got to be one of the most user-friendly smartphones available, which will only help its popularity.

The HTC Desire builds on the success of Google’s Nexus One and HTC’s own Legend, and gives smartphone users a little bit more. With impressive technology, and a user interface and software to match, HTC has reinforced its position as one of the big smartphone brands.

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