MWC 2010: Hands-on HTC Legend, Desire and HD mini


This morning HTC announced a trio of new smartphones. Each one with its own identity, but with similarities to for instance the HTC Sense. We took a closer look at each device and made pictures. Tag along and see what HTC has in store.

First we encountered the HTC Legend, the official successor of the HTC Hero. And as we are walking around with quite some phones, we have laid our Hero next to the new Legend, and what seems? The new Legend does not dissapoint us!

HTC LegendHTC Hero vs HTC Legend
HTC Hero naast de HTC Legend

TheHTC Legend is made of one piece of aluminum , runs on Android 2.1, is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, a 3.2 inch AMOLED touchscreen and weighs 126 grams including the battery.

HTC Desire

Op naar de Desire, the performance device by HTC. It concerns virtually the same device as the Google Nexus One also manufactured by HTC. It is provided with HTC Sense and an optical indicator.

HTC Desire frontHTC Desire side
HTC Desire

As you can see in the above image, we are dealing with a dire compact device. Even if it has a large 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen. Furtermore it has a 5 megapixel camera and a extremely fast 1 GHz processor.

HTC Desire with Friend Stream
Friend Stream

New at HTC is the Friend Stream which helps to easily stay in touch with everyone. It provides a stream of information from several social networks like Facebook, Twitter en Flickr.

HTC Desire Calendar Widget
Kalender Widget
HTC Desire News Widget
News Widget

Also new are some widgets. One is for easy viewing of the planned meetings, while the other is for viewing news items.

HTC HD mini

At last the very compact but productive HTC HD mini. No Android but 'just' Windows Mobile, version 6.5.3.

HTC HD mini frontHTC HD mini versus HD2
HTC HD mini versus HD2

As can be seen above the HTC HD mini is small. Even more, it's the smallest smartphone by HTC equipped with HTC Sense. More qualities are a 5 megapixel camera, 3.2 inch wide touchscreen and built-in GPS receiver. And yes, we can confirm that the HD miniis indeed bright yellow inside. Question is "why?!"

HTC HD mini inside
Gele binnenkant van de HTC HD mini


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