HTC Desire Z review


This HTC Desire Z review is to illustrate and highlight the pros and cons of the phone. This review will help you better understand the phone before you go ahead and buy it.

HTC Desire Z review

HTC Desire Z Reviews

HTC Desire Z review- hardware

The HTC Desire Z has a SLCD measuring 3.7 inches with a resolution of 480×800. The optical trackpad is quite large, the sides are straight and the edges quite sharp. The brushed aluminum bezel exterior gives it a formal and sophisticated look. The screen is vibrant and sharp with good viewing angles as well. Below the screen there are capacitive touch buttons. There are three physical buttons as well. The power button is easily accessible with its location on the right bottom corner. There are some necessary mechanisms along with an extra keyboard which makes the phone a bit heavier and thicker than its other counterparts. It weighs 6.35 ounces and the slider QWERTY keypad is quite slim. Around the area of the aluminum battery door there is plenty of coating of gray rubber which gives an effect of brushed metal as well as provides a comfortable and secure grip. The backside also has battery door’s latch, loudspeaker, LED flash and 5 megapixel camera. The Desire Z has 512MB RAM, a 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 chipset, WiFi, 1.5GB ROM, GPS and Bluetooth.

HTC Desire Z review- software

The optimized OS and 800MHz MSM7230 chipset gives a Quadrant score which averages around 1400 to 1600, which is higher than 1GHz devices that sport shipped ROMs. The phone has Froyo specialties which include features like being a WiFi hotspot, live wallpapers, Google backup, Flash support, etc. There are some additions like a pause button for the music box and status tray showing a list of apps that have opened recently. The bottom tray of the homescreen has a right button which boasts of some personalization options like wallpapers, scenes, ringtones and sounds. Any panel thumbnail can be held down and dragged to rearrange the order. There are some new widgets as well like “Call Mom”. This helps track the days since the last call to a particular designated contact. There is the “Fake Call” app as well which allows you to set up a fake call from any contact chosen. There are other apps like Locations, Car Panel which is an app for full navigation, QuickOffice to edit Microsoft Office documents, SoundHound to identify music, Blocked Callers and HTC Likes which harnesses the power of social networking.

HTC Desire Z review – Camera

The HTC Desire Z features a 5 mega pixel camera with the color accuracy improved quite a bit and remaining great even in conditions that are quite dark as compared to its previous versions. The ISO can be boosted up to 800 if you want to take critical shots with the camera. You can adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness to get great pictures as well. The video recording gives a resolution of 800×480 by default instead of 720p.

The HTC Desire Z is actually worth its money as well as the hype that has been generated around it. The HTC Desire Z review aims at merely bringing into focus the features that have made it a phone to reckon with.

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