While a majority of mainstream mobile phone users have been consuming the pop phenomenon that is the iPhone, a relative newcomer is slowly making its way up – the hard way that is. With the HTC Desire, the Taiwan-based manufacturer is taking the more conventional path towards the consumer’s hearts – by coming up with a device that is not only all bark, but also has a lot of bite to go with it.

Making Waves

Let’s get things straight. We’re not claiming that the iPhone (in particular) doesn’t have the goods to back up the entire buzz that has and continues to surround it to this day. We actually believe otherwise as we consider it to be one of the greatest inventions of the modern age. However, we just think that the HTC Desire is a much better mobile phone. Why, might you ask? Well, we can give you two very good reasons.

Feature-Filled

The HTC Desire is definitely one of the most impressive Smartphones in the market simply because of its awesome set of features. For starters, its 3.7” AMOLED touch screen display delivers the most vivid image outputs at an amazing 480 x 800 pixels. It also has a cutting edge 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon for its processor which remains to be the most powerful in the market. And, there’s even an above-average 5-Megapixel snapper on board which can snap excellent quality photos. Last but not least, the Desire has the Google Android mobile operating system on board – enough said.

Value for Money

If that’s not impressive enough for you then maybe you should know that the HTC Desire retails at average price of £400. This means that at this considerably reasonable price, you’d be able to get all of the top-of-the-line features you’d expect from a Smartphone of this calibre. Or there are, of course, any number of great HTC Desire deals that’ll save you from having to make that one big expenditure. If you asked us, we’d rather go for the Desire than to spend a good 500 odd pounds for say, an iPhone 3GS.

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile platform is due to come out later this year. LG has already revealed the details on their Panther handset –making it the very first WP7 device to be formally announced and now, HTC is joining the roster.

The HTC Mondrian smart phone is more than just an upcoming WP7 handset, it is also the first handset to be announced that will have a CPU running over 1GHz, the QSD8650-A Snapdragon processor that will be used in the Mondrian is clocked at a speed of 1.3 GHz –this hardware will prove to be useful specially when it comes to the gaming capabilities of the mobile platform. It has already been shown that the new OS will have 3D games. Microsoft’s XNA technology will allow for full 3D games to be playable even on a mobile phone.

Other details of the device include a 4.3 inch capacitive touch screen display and a camera with video and image recording capabilities. Of course, usual smart phone features such as Bluetooth, GPS, media playback, 2G/3G support and more are present in the Mondrian.

This device is definitely remarkable because of its high speed CPU. Though there are also rumors that a dual core Snapdragon may be in the works, the real focus is on technology that already exists.

In other HTC related news, the Taiwanese company is suing Apple for 5 patents that have been used in Apple’s touch screen devices. With Apple previously filing a similar case against HTC (which included 20 patents for hardware and software technologies), it makes perfect sense that they will now file their countersuit. The company has recently teamed up with Microsoft –presumably to arrange a deal for using MS patents. Many believe that with this move, HTC has secured its position against the larger Cupertino based operating system.

AMOLED screen or Active-Matrix OLED is one among 2 types of OLED display. The other type is called passive-matrix screen which is suitable for secondary displays and main displays of several low-end mobile handsets. A Passive-matrix screen is not ideal for viewing of videos unlike the AMOLED screen.

A transistor lies next to each pixel in an AMOLED screen. The transistors allow for quicker response times. This explains why AMOLED screens are best for displaying videos and are the most common screen types chosen to be the main display for mobile phones.

AMOLED screen is emerging as a display technology. OLED refers to a display technology that is very thin and very bright that allows for best display clarity that does not require a backlight for it to work. Active-Matrix refers to the technology that addresses image pixels. The combination of these two bring about the AMOLED screen. The creation of AMOLED screens is continuously being pushed to the direction of developing low-power and low-cost large size applications that will be applicable even in television sets.

OLED pixels are deposited into a thin film transistor or that which is called the TFT array. This process forms a matrix of pixels for the purpose of illuminating light when the electronic device is in use. The TFT array serves as a sequence of switches that manage the current flowing to each of the pixels in the display. One transistor signals a pixel to brightly shine.

AMOLED screens are characterized by 4 separate layers that control the image shown in the display. The layers are the anode layer, middle organic layer, cathode layer, and the circuitry layer at the bottom of the layering.

The advantage of AMOLED screen displays is its ability to provide good quality video-rate performance similar to other passive-matrix OLED providers only with lesser power consumption. This advantage makes AMOLED screen a good choice for manufacturers that develop portable electronics as battery life is critical to a product’s success.