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February 16, 2010

HTC Legend and Bravo officially launched !

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Written by: Asad Rafi
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Today, During the Mobile World Congress, HTC officially launched the most anticipated smartphones, The HTC Legend and the HTC Desire (Bravo). Both Smartphones are beautiful and awesome.

HTC Legend , also known as HTC Hero successor . HTC Legend is powered by Android 2.1. In size, the HTC Legend is little smaller then the Hero. But if you talk about specs, Then HTC Legend is way better. The HTC Legend debuts a new version of HTC Sense . The HTC Legend features:

  • Android 2.1
  • 600MHz Qualcomm  MSM7227
  • 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with multitouch support
  • 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
  • WiFi b/g, Bluetooth
  • microUSB port
  • Dualband UMTS/HSPA (900/1800)

Price and release date of the Legend is still unknown. But we’ll keep you updated. More pictures on Slashgear .

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And now the HTC Desire, previously known as the HTC Bravo . The look and specs of the Desire is almost similar to the Nexus One. The difference is that the HTC Desire doesn’t comes with a physical trackball unlike the Nexus One which also includes active noise cancellation. The Desire also comes with the latest Sense UI. The newest Sense UI comes with some new features like improved social network integration and new Friend Stream update app. The HTC Desire features:

  • 1GHz Snapgragon processor
  • 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen
  • 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
  • Android 2.1
  • Quadband GSM/EDGE
  • Dualband (900/2100) UMTS/HSPA
  • WiFi, Bluetooth
  • GPS/AGPS

HTC Desire should arrive in European and Asian markets in the start of  Q2 2010. HTC said that No plans for a US version. But no problem, We have Nexus One here . No words on price. More pictures available on Slashgear.

[via SlashGear]

Update: T-Mobile announced on their Twitter Account this morning that “The HTC Desire, just unveiled by HTC at MWC, will be available on T-Mobile from 26th March”.







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43 Comments


  1. famine

    article should probably be renamed “officially announced” … launched usually indicates its available. maybe its just me though.


  2. famine

    article should probably be renamed “officially announced” … launched usually indicates its available. maybe its just me though.


  3. famine

    article should probably be renamed “officially announced” … launched usually indicates its available. maybe its just me though.


  4. famine

    article should probably be renamed “officially announced” … launched usually indicates its available. maybe its just me though.


  5. Albee

    Don’t think this statement correct

    “The difference is that the HTC Desire comes with physical trackball unlike Nexus One and active noise cancellation.”

    I think you meant it the other way round

    “The difference is that the Nexus One comes with physical trackball unlike HTC Desire and active noise cancellation.”


  6. Albee

    Don’t think this statement correct

    “The difference is that the HTC Desire comes with physical trackball unlike Nexus One and active noise cancellation.”

    I think you meant it the other way round

    “The difference is that the Nexus One comes with physical trackball unlike HTC Desire and active noise cancellation.”


  7. Albee

    Don’t think this statement correct

    “The difference is that the HTC Desire comes with physical trackball unlike Nexus One and active noise cancellation.”

    I think you meant it the other way round

    “The difference is that the Nexus One comes with physical trackball unlike HTC Desire and active noise cancellation.”


  8. Albee

    Don’t think this statement correct

    “The difference is that the HTC Desire comes with physical trackball unlike Nexus One and active noise cancellation.”

    I think you meant it the other way round

    “The difference is that the Nexus One comes with physical trackball unlike HTC Desire and active noise cancellation.”


  9. AVAILABLE MARCH 26TH ON TMOBILE USA?!?!?!?!?! ARE YOU SURE??? If this is true then i hope i didn’t just spend the last half hour trying not to kill my son with hugs and jumping around my room like a teenager that just got asked out to the Prom by the most popular guy in school!!!! Please oh please let this be true!
    I know it’s just a badass, totally rad, super awesome fast phone but i’ve been waiting for it’s release since December…no…even before that! Since i realized my G1 wouldn’t live to be 100 !


  10. AVAILABLE MARCH 26TH ON TMOBILE USA?!?!?!?!?! ARE YOU SURE??? If this is true then i hope i didn’t just spend the last half hour trying not to kill my son with hugs and jumping around my room like a teenager that just got asked out to the Prom by the most popular guy in school!!!! Please oh please let this be true!
    I know it’s just a badass, totally rad, super awesome fast phone but i’ve been waiting for it’s release since December…no…even before that! Since i realized my G1 wouldn’t live to be 100 !


  11. AVAILABLE MARCH 26TH ON TMOBILE USA?!?!?!?!?! ARE YOU SURE??? If this is true then i hope i didn’t just spend the last half hour trying not to kill my son with hugs and jumping around my room like a teenager that just got asked out to the Prom by the most popular guy in school!!!! Please oh please let this be true!
    I know it’s just a badass, totally rad, super awesome fast phone but i’ve been waiting for it’s release since December…no…even before that! Since i realized my G1 wouldn’t live to be 100 !


  12. AVAILABLE MARCH 26TH ON TMOBILE USA?!?!?!?!?! ARE YOU SURE??? If this is true then i hope i didn’t just spend the last half hour trying not to kill my son with hugs and jumping around my room like a teenager that just got asked out to the Prom by the most popular guy in school!!!! Please oh please let this be true!
    I know it’s just a badass, totally rad, super awesome fast phone but i’ve been waiting for it’s release since December…no…even before that! Since i realized my G1 wouldn’t live to be 100 !


  13. raymond

    I have a nexus and the legend looks better but dosent have snapdragon…….and the bravo which is up there with the nexus i n 95% pf the specs but lacks live wallpapers touch buttons and its lacking googles majior support which every other phone other then nexus does…nexus will get every up date google is puttin out there and first….and will never be left behind because its googles baby…..


  14. raymond

    I have a nexus and the legend looks better but dosent have snapdragon…….and the bravo which is up there with the nexus i n 95% pf the specs but lacks live wallpapers touch buttons and its lacking googles majior support which every other phone other then nexus does…nexus will get every up date google is puttin out there and first….and will never be left behind because its googles baby…..


  15. Desire phone i want it got to have it sounds like its better than the Nexus One and my old faithfull G1 bout time to retire that one even though i just love my G1



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