Few months after the anticipated Google Nexus One was released, HTC announced A8181 Desire. As commonly known, Google Nexus One is a made by Google with the assistance of HTC. No matter the size, appearance or specs, the unlocked touch screen smartphone HTC A8181 Desire is almost identical to the Google Nexus One. An additional feature has added on Desire is the newest version of HTC Sense, the user interface. Sense has elevated to the next level to operate in coordination with Desire and the other Android smartphone Legend, which released a bit earlier than the former.

An essential application is added to the newest version of the enhanced Sense. Focusing the concept of circle of friends, it is called the Friend Stream. Its main purpose is to group all the social networking accounts of the user under the same interface. This includes Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. If a friend posts any message or update from the above social networking websites, it can all be shown under one interface without the need of opening any extra application window.

Desire has a 3.7inches AMOLED screen display. It provides sophisticated WVGA display. Colour is saturated and bright and gives a beautiful colour performance. Its touch-screen feature supports multi-touched input method. With a thickness of 11.9mm, Desire is considered very thin among smartphones in the market. Desire uses Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor coupled with 512 MB ROM, 576 MB RAM internal memory. It also supports Adobe Flash version 10.1

When HTC acquainted Desire, it has the keenest specs of all HTC smartphones for the first half of 2010. It has the newest Android OS, Android 2.1 Eclair OS at the time of present. The unlocked HTC A8181 Desire comes with a built-in 5.0MP camera. It supports auto-focusing and comes together with a LED flash. Face and smile detection and geo-tagging are also accommodated. In addition, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, digital compass, FM radio, etc are appended. HTC Desire supports up to 32GB microSD card external memory.