HTC's Legend Succeeds Hero, And The Desire Is...Desirable

The HTC Legend is a beautiful looking sleek device, carved from one piece of aluminum. Sound familiar? The unibody enclosure make it super durable and structurally sound. The device is a follow up to the popular HTC Hero and retains the same form factor that was available to everyone but the US. The chin is back, and this thing is looking FINE.

The HTC Desire is essentially the Nexus One, with major improvements. It's running all the same innards with a few minor external tweaks.

Both of HTC's new Android devices are running Android 2.1 skinned with a brand new version of their Sense UI (dubbed Espresso). The new version brings all kinds of improvements and features including the ability to pinch on any home screen to zoom out to a bird's eye view of all your screens. The new Sense also has a Friend Stream app and widget that give you a one-stop to see all of your contacts social activities and allows you to interact with them right there. But, since it's an HTC branded phone, and not a Google branded phone, you'll miss out on Google exclusive features like voice-to-text.

Both devices also ditch the trackball in favor of the new clickable trackpad, and both swap out soft dedicated buttons along the bottom for physical buttons. That said, let's get into specs though, shall we?

HTC Legend
• 3.2" Capacitive multitouch touch screen
• Same 600Mhz processor as the HD Mini
• No Flash Lite 4 support

HTC Desire
• 3.7" Capacitive multitouch touch screen
• No noise cancellation
• Same Nexus One 1Ghz Snapdragon
• DOES support Flash Lite 4

The Legend will hit Europe on Vodafone in April 2010 and will hit greater Asia in Q2 '10. The Desire will hit Europe and Asia in April 2010. No US release planned for either device (sad face) and no word on pricing just yet. 

Guess what's after the jump? If you said press release, you'd be right.

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