HTC math: Nexus+Sense=Desire

Take the super-fast Snapdragon 1GHz processor from the Google Nexus One phone and add the popular HTC Sense UI and you get the new HTC Desire. The new device features many of the same highlights as the super Google phone but has some small differences. It is not clear if the phone will hit US shores, perhaps not wanting to compete with the Nexus One on US soil.

Both the new Desire and the Nexus One feature a 3.7 AMOLED touchscreen, run Android 2.1 and have a 5 megapixel camera. The weight and overall size are nearly the same. They even look a bit alike.

However, there are some differences. The Desire looses the trackball of the Nexus One and replaces it with an optical joystick. Gone are the soft control buttons, replaced by physical buttons along the bottom of the phone. Of course, the biggest difference is in the software.

The updated Sense UI is a skin that sits atop Android to move the important features closer to your fingers. Android gets a bit of a bad rap in that it is so customizable, many users need to learn a bit to figure it all out. With Sense, users can easily customize the skin to see the info that is important to them.

No price or release date yet.

Read: [PCWorld]