When set side by side, you would think that the HTC Desire was an identical twin to the Google Nexus One. The insides are virtually the same, as well. Both offer a 1 GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor, a GPS, A-GPS, a microSD, 512 MB of flash and 265 MB of Ram. The 3.7" WVGA AMOLED screen and the curves of the device, as well as the fact that the power button is on the top, also seem to mimic the Google Nexus One. As with the Nexus One, there's a proximity sensor, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Then there's the 5-megapixel camera on the back (with an LED flash) that includes the capability to capture 800 x 480 video. Both handsets run the Android 2.1 OS and both feature the same handy shortcuts on the front of the phone - home, menu, back and search. What's the difference between the two phones? The Google Nexus One has better active voice cancellation which means that the "voice to text" functionality of the Desire won't work either. So don't set up any lonely Saturday night chat dates with your new HTC Desire. Are you thinking that perhaps the Desire is not as desirable as the Nexus One. Of course it is! The HTC desire replaces the mechanical trackball on the front of the Nexus One and the touch sensitive buttons on the screen with hard shortcut keys and a button that provides more precise optical navigation. This move has been happening across the industry. BlackBerry, in fact, has done the same thing. Trackballs tend to be a little delicate and nobody wants the trackball to break while they're paying for an 18 or 24 month contract. The HTC handset offers the HTC Sense UI, which is also found on the HTC Hero. Obviously, since it's not an HTC product, you're not going to find this in Google's Nexus One. The Sense UI is improved and faster and has incorporated other contact features that make the Nexus One look much more boring than the Desire. A "helicopter view" is new to Sense and works much the way Expose works on a Mac. If you pinch the homescreen it will display all the pages that are running on the homescreen. All you need to do then is tap the screen to grab the one you want or pinch back out as the Desire supports multi-touch. Which should you buy? There's really not a whole lot of difference between them. It mostly just comes down to personal preference. But if you really can't make up your mind, the fact that the HTC Desire was released after the Google Nexus One, may give it a little bit of an advantage.

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