HTC Desire Unboxing

While the HTC Legend was a shiny, unibody wonder, the undoubtable star of Mobile World Congress last month was the HTC Desire. Instantly dubbed “the Nexus One with Sense”, the Android 2.1 smartphone has just arrived on the SlashGear doorstep demanding its unboxing video privileges. Who are we to turn down a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 5-megapixel camera? Check out the unboxing, plus a first-look comparison with the Nexus One, after the cut.

While HTC are responsible for the industrial design of both handsets, the Desire feels significantly different in the hand to the Nexus One. That’s predominantly down to the rubberised back cover, rather than the Google phone’s metal panel. It’s soft-touch and all very nice, but the Desire does end up losing some of the Nexus One’s waifish charm. Still, an improvement is the optical trackpad, which is just as responsive as the trackball (if not more so), and the hardware buttons which have none of the accuracy issues Nexus One owners have encountered with that phone’s capacitive keys.