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HTC was a bit rubbish in the days of windows mobile. Google basically bought and really made android, and then brought out the google phone aka the nexus one, made by HTC. HTC then added a bit more ram, replaced the capacitive buttons with real ones (people complained about these) and replaced the ball with a trackpad (same as BB are doing) to make the HTC desire hardware. On the OS side they added HTC Sense which is actually rather good, so good in fact that some people with the nexus one flash the firmware for the desire onto it as opposed to what google gives called "vanilla android".

The unlimited data of the BB is very tempting. I mainly wanted a phone for internet browsing though. Usually in the evenings when I would get out my laptop I just connect my phone to wifi and browse. The screen is 800x460 I think and also AMOLED so it looks brilliant. App wise pretty much all the apps on the apple store you'll find either the same app or a clone on the android market except they are mostly free and some have some google ads in them.

The biggest downside of the desire is the battery life. It has a 1ghz cpu, 576mb ram, 512mb rom and that screen, all killers of battery life. Basically you will have to charge it every night. Does charge via usb so you could plug it in a bit for a boost if you have a desk job etc. The chargers have the same port as BB so I have the charger for my gf's BB handsfree which she doesn't use in my car just in case.