The HTC Desire Z – a Desirable QWERTY
After releasing its first full-QWERTY sliding Android HTC Dream back in June 2009, the Taiwan leader in smartphones now has the second full QWERTY with the HTC Desire Z. Feature-wise, it’s no different from the Desire HD that has sprouted a QWERTY keyboard but when closed, it has more affinity to the earlier Desire in looks and dimensions. In case people ask why designate it a “Z”, one has to look at the sliding mechanism from the side to see a similarity in the formation of its halves and its diagonal hinge forming the letter.
From AMOLED to S-LCD
The HTC Desire Z carries forward the company’s switch from Samsung’s inventory-starved AMOLED to Sony’s Super-LCD screen. Engadget has a good comparison between the two screens on the same HTC Desire and there’s nothing to conclude that one is superior to the other. Both have the same 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen technology with multitouch, a 400 x 800 resolution, 16 million colors and the usual sensors for proximity and accelerometer auto-rotate viewing.
Flagship Features
What adds to the appeal of the HTC Desire Z is its latest Android v2.2 Froyo OS while other Androids using a v2.1 Éclair are stilling awaiting upgrades. But it does step a lower wrung with a Qualcomm MSM7230 clocked 800 MHz when the earlier Desire had a 1 GHz Snapdragon. Other than that, the Desire Z is another upscale Android that has the following:
• Quad band GSM with class 32 GPRS/EDGE on 2G;
• Dual band 3G/UMTS with HSDPA at 14.14 Mbps and HSUPA at 5.7 Mbps data speeds;
• WiFi 802.11 b/g/n with DLNA, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and microUSB v2.0;
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, geo tagging, face detection and 720p video recording
• 1.5 GB internal memory with 512 MB RAM and microSD support for up to 32GB;
• 9.8 hours on 2G and 6.6 hours on 3G with 430 hours standby time from a 1300 mAh Li-ion battery.
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