HTC Unveils Nexus One Lookalike, New Smartphones

By Allen Tsai | Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:44 pm

HTC today unveiled three new smartphones, including the Desire, an Android-based handset that has many of the same features as the Google's Nexus One device, but with a possibly lower price tag and wider distribution.

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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Taiwan-based smartphone maker said the Desire has a large 3.7-inch touch screen display that's brighter and more vivid than PC monitors, due to AMOLED, or active-matrix OLED, technology.

"AMOLED is based on a chemical that works pretty much like a firefly," said John Wang, HTC's director of marketing. "Every dot on the screen emits light."

Powered by a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon chip, the handset runs Google's latest Android 2.1 software, features a custom interface that lets users view different home screens at the same time with one pinch and integrates a new "friend stream" application that grabs text messages, emails and call history and even information from Facebook, Twitter and Flickr and puts it in one location.

The company also showed off the Legend, a cheaper version of the Desire, built from a smooth, single aluminum block and featuring an optical joystick instead of a trackball.

Both handsets come with a 5.0-megapixel camera, music player and FM radio and high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity.

HTC also announced a Windows Mobile 6.5 device, the HD Mini -- a smaller version of the HD2 planned for T-Mobile.

The company said all three devices will be released in Europe and Asia sometime in the second quarter of this year.

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