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HTC came out of the gates swinging with the highly impressive Legend smartphone. The company has followed up that device with the Desire, a phone HTC hopes will leave the Android crowd reeling. A large number of people who have tested the handset mention the Desire’s resemblance to the Nexus One. This isn’t to say that the phone is a rip off or some sort of inferior product.

The HTC Desire, in fact, is packaged with HTC Sense which already provides better usability right out of the package than the Nexus One. The phone is by no means huge, measuring 119 x 60 x 11.9mm. This makes it just a bit larger than its cousin the Nexus One, but not gargantuan by any stretch of the imagination. Of course, the Desire would be a little bigger in order to house the large 3.7-inch OLED capacitive touch screen. The AMOLED display offers 800 x 480 pixel resolution, creating sharper images than most other Android phones.

This high quality display should of course be partnered with a camera capable of utilizing its abilities, and the HTC Desire provides a 5-megapixel camera. Although that is not a change from the Legend, the Desire shows images at an aspect of 5:3. On smartphones nowadays, a video recorder is always coupled to the camera, and Desire’s recorder shoots video at 800 x 480p resolution. This is an improvement over the Legend and the related Nexus One. Frame rate is reduced when recording in low light on the Desire which is most likely to compensate for a dark setting and provide extended exposure time.

HTC, as previously mentioned, has placed their Sense user interface on the Desire in addition to Android 2.1. Features such as the weather effects found on it allow the display to really show what it can do. Sense provides the user with seven homescreens and unveils the Live View, a feature that displays the seven panels as thumbnails. Applications are a vital component of any smartphone, as is the ability to perform tasks simultaneously. The Desire comes equipped with a breathtaking 576MB of RAM, allowing it to handle all the apps a time you could possibly want. New to the Desire is Friend Stream, basically the HTC equivalent to Motoblur, which pulls Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter updates into a single timeline.

The HTC Desire has basically taken the best features of the Legend and freshened them up. Because the previous phone was already top notch, the Desire remains near the top of the Android game. Sometimes it’s best to go with what works.