Taking a quick glance, one would think that the HTC Desire is almost a design twin to the Google Nexus One. It’s almost the same inside, too. With the HTC Desire you get a 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor, GPS, A-GPS, a microSD, 512MB of flash and 265 MB of Ram. It also has the same sized (3.7″) WVGA AMOLET screen and great curve, with a power button on the top of the device. The HTC Desire even incorporates a proximity sensor as well as a compass so that you can use it with augmented reality apps as well as HSDPA. It is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ready. Don’t forget the 5 megapixel camera with it’s LED flash and ability to capture 800 x 480 video. Both the HTC Desire and the Google Nexus One offer shortcuts on the screen 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 HTC desire replaces the mechanical trackball on the front of the Nexus One and the touch sensitive buttons on the screen with hard shortcut keys and a button that provides more precise optical navigation. This move has been happening across the industry. BlackBerry, in fact, has done the same thing. Trackballs tend to be a little delicate and nobody wants the trackball to break while they’re paying for an 18 or 24 month contract. The HTC handset offers the HTC Sense UI, which is also found on the HTC Hero. Obviously, since it’s not an HTC product, you’re not going to find this in Google’s Nexus One. The Sense UI is improved and faster and has incorporated other contact features that make the Nexus One look much more boring than the Desire. A “helicopter view” is new to Sense and works much the way Expose works on a Mac. If you pinch the homescreen it will display all the pages that are running on the homescreen. All you need to do then is tap the screen to grab the one you want or pinch back out as the 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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