HTC Desire Similar to the Google Nexus One

Google have recently released their first ever mobile phone is the United States called the Nexus One. This handset was manufactured by HTC, who have produced the majority of the Android handsets on the market to date. A interesting fact, is that the Nexus One is still to appear on the UK market, yet HTC have gone ahead and released their own in house version called the HTC Desire and have tweaked it slightly – for the better. If you who think this handset looks familiar, apart from being a Nexus look a like, it was previously give the codename Bravo and appeared on several well-known phone blogs.

The Desire is a smartphone handset which will be running on the very latest version of the Android Operating System – V2.1 As well as to the updated OS, this handset will also feature HTC Sense user interface, which didn’t work that well in the past, but has been getting better in recent releases. HTC has got rid of the trackball cursor control found on most Android handsets, including the Nexus One. This has been replaced with Optical pad. There are good and bad points to both trackball and pad, so will have to see if this is a significant difference or not.

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A Closer Look at the Samsung S8500 Wave

Every year see a number of manufacturers release and large number of mobile phones. And many of these handsets simply do not make the grade for one reason or another. However there are always a handful of phones that become hugely popular thanks to there innovative styling and host of features, and the Samsung S8500 Wave looks set to become such a model.

The mobile phone fans out there have been waiting for news of the Samsung Wave thanks to the fact that it runs on Samsung brand new “Bada” operating system. Bada is seen as a major rival to the other main players out there, namely the Google Android. Although the handset has not been released yet, meaning nobody has had the chance to fully experience the Bada OS, word is that it is an incredibly easy platform for users and programmers alike, and already a PS3 development studio have developed a game, the first time such a studio has produced one for a mobile phone. Therefore the operating system is certainly going to be something worth waiting for, for smartphone fans and gamers alike.

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