Difference Between HTC Desire HD and Apple iPhone 4

HTC Desire HD and Apple iPhone 4 are amazing smartphones with whole lot of features imbibed in to the small gadgets. i Phone 4 has a very impressive design that captured the minds instantly upon launch and it created a benchmark for smartphone capability and performance with its high speed processor, huge memory and loads of applications to make your life easy. HTC Desire HD, a younger sibiling of HTC Desire, the smartphone of the year 2010, is a multimedia powerhouse with a huge display and Dolby Mobile and SRS virtual surround sound with HDMI out and DLNA certification. In addition HTC Sense have added many attractive features to the device. You cannot say one is good over the other, both are great phones, your buying decision is personal, it depends on your requirement. This article is only a guidance to make an informed decision.

HTC Desire HD

HTC Desire HD is an excellent multimedia phone with its 4.3” LCD display and Dolby Mobile and SRS virtual sound, an 8-megapixel camera with dual-flash and the capability of 720p HD video recording and stream it on to a bigger screen via DLNA. It was the first HTC phone to come with the 1GHz Qualcomm 8255 Snapdragon processor and has 768 MB RAM. Pinch to zoom and tap to zoom with multi window view and integrated Adobe Flash Player gives a good browsing experience to users.

HTC Desire HD is a solid aluminum candy bar that runs Android 2.2 with HTC Sense. The HTC Sense, which HTC calls as the social intelligence gives a unique experience to users with its many small but intelligent applications. The improved HTC Sense enables fast boot and has added many new multimedia features. HTC Sense has enhanced camera application with many camera features like full screen viewfinder, touch focus, onscreen access to camera adjustments and effects. The other features include HTC locations with on-demand mapping (service depend on the carrier), integrated e-reader that support text search from Wikipedia, Google, Youtube or dictionary. Browsing is made enjoyable with features like magnifier, quick look up to look for a word, Wikipedia search, Google search, YouTube search, Google translate and Google dictionary. You can add a new window for browsing or move from one to another windows by zooming in and out. It also offers a good music player, which is better than the standard Android music player. There are many other features with htc sense that give a beautiful experience to users.

The htcsense.com online service also available for this phone, users can register for this service in the HTC website. One of the feature of the online service is the missing phone locater, it will trigger the handset to ring loudly, even if it is in silent mode. It also can show you the location on a map. If needed users can remotely lock the phone or remotely wipe all personal data from the phone. Nothing to worry, users can reload call/contact data to another HTC phone from a PC browser.

The HTC Desire HD is available through mobile operators and retailers across major European and Asian markets from October 2010.

Apple iPhone 4

It’s difficult to say if there has ever been a smartphone that has caught the imagination of the people as much as iPhone 4. It is not just a phone; it is an idea that has caught on like a fever. The cult status of iPhone 4 among smartphones is a tribute to Apple’s marketing strategy and the image that it has developed for itself in the minds of the people.

iPhone 4 has a large LED backlit LCD display – Retina measuring 3.5” that is not huge but comfortable enough to read everything because it is extremely bright with a resolution of 960X640 pixels. The touchscreen is highly sensitive and scratch resistant. With a RAM of 512 MB and internal storage capacities of 16 and 32 GB depending upon the model you buy, this smartphone has a dual camera, with the rear one being 5MP 5X digital zoom with LED flash and illumination sensor – you can capture impressive video/photo at low light. The front camera can be used for video chatting and video calling. The phone works very smoothly with a super fast processor that is 1GHz Apple A4. The operating system is iOS 4 that is considered to be the best in the business. iPhone 4 is upgradeable to the latest iOS 4.3 that will add more features to iPhone 4. Web browsing on Safari is a pleasant experience and the user has the liberty to download thousands of apps from Apple’s app store. Emailing is fun with this smartphone as there is a full QWERTY virtual keyboard for fast typing. iPhone 4 is Facebook compatible to stay connected with friends with a single touch.

Mobile hotspot feature had been a negative scorer for iPhone, but that is introduced now with the iOS upgrade to iOS 4.3. You can share your data connection simultaneously with up to five devices via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB. The non inclusion of the Adobe Flash Player is still an issue with iPhone fans, however, iPhone 4 has integrated YouTube.

Apple iPhone 4 also has many of the features provided by HTC Sense, but in different names such as Find My Phone, iMovie for video/photo editing (purchase from App Store), Photobucket to play fun with your shots, Parental control is a good feature on iPhone where you can restrict access to some applications. Apple has many other attractive features such as AipPlay, AirPrint, Search my Phone, iBooks (from App Store), FaceTime and game Centre.