HTC desire z

Announced: 15 Sep 2010

 For

• Aluminum chassis
• Responsive UI
• Great design and build
• Decent enough camera
• Both physical and onscreen keyboards work well

Against

• Screen wobbles in closed mode
• Hinge seems suspect
• Battery not terrible but could have been bigger
• No e-book reader, unlike Desire HD
• no video call camera

HTC Desire Z is an Android side-slider phone. Similar to the T-Mobile G2, the Desire Z features a QWERTY keyboard. Other goodies include 5MP camera that is capable to record HD video, an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 processor and Wi-Fi.The first Android phone had a QWERTY keypad and was manufactured by HTC. After that there haven t been a lot of droids with QWERTY keypads and HTC in particular never visited that territory.

Specification

Physical Specification
Handset Weight	180g
Handset Dimensions	119 x 60.4 x 14.2 mm
Form Factor	Candybar
Keyboard	QWERTY Keyboard
Display
Size	480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches
Pixel density:	252ppi
Touch Screen	Yes, Capacitive, Multi-touch
Type	S-LCD capacitive touchscreen,
Colors	16M
Features	Scratch-resistant glass, Corning Gorilla Glass
Secondary Display	No
Camera / Imaging / Video
Camera	Yes 5.0 Megapixel
Resolution	2592 x 1944 pixels
Zoom	Yes
Flash	LED
Camera features	Auto focus, Geo tagging, face detection
Secondary Camera	NO
Video	Yes, 720p
HD	Yes
Media
Audio	Yes: aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma
Video	Yes: 3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv
Video Streaming	Yes
Ringtones	Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
FM Radio	Yes
Headphone Jack	Yes: 3.5mm
Connectivity
Bluetooth	Yes:Bluetooth 2.1
Irda	No
Wlan/Wi-fi	Yes: WIFI 802.11 b/g/n
USB	Yes: USB 2.0
GPS	yes
Internet browsing
Browser	Yes,Supports: HTML
Built-in online services	Facebook, YouTube (upload), Flickr, Twitter
Messaging
SMS	YES
MMS	Yes
Instant Messaging	Yes
Email	YES
Hardware
System chip	Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon
Processor	Single core, 800 MHz Scorpion
GPU	Adreno 205
Memory
System memory	1.5 GB; 512 MB RAM
External Memory	Yes, MicroSD up to 32 GB
Platform
OS	Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo), upgradable to v2.3
Network/Data
Frequency Bands	GSM : 850/900/1800/1900 MHz HSDPA : 900/2100 MHz
GPRS	Yes,114kbps
EDGE	Yes,560kbps
3G	Yes,7.2Mps
Battery
Type	Li - Ion
Capacity	1300 mAh
Standby	Up to 430 h (2G) / Up to 430 h (3G)
Talktime	Up to 9 h 50 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 40 min (3G)
Other features
Sensors	Accelerometer, Compass, Proximity sensor