The official HTC announcements came and went at Mobile World Congress 2010, leaving us a few Android handsets in their wake. First up was the new flagship, the Desire. Long touted as the Bravo, it came with a large 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA display, an optical joystick, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Android 2.1, and the newest version of Sense UI. It was also Flash 10.1 ready.
The Desire was reported to be broadly available throughout Europe and Asia in early Q2 2010, as well as in Australia via Telstra. No US launch was announced at the time, though HTC noted that a record number of mobile operators had confirmed the Desire for launch and that it had been accepted by nearly every key carrier in every key market they work with.
The updated HTC Sense experience added a new application called HTC Friend Stream, which blends social networking and communication into one continuous feed. Users could also organize contacts into custom groups. HTC added a newsreader app and widget to Sense as well. Multi-touch pinch zooming on the home screen, called Leap, was also part of the updated Sense experience.
