While we knew that the launch of the HTC Desire on US Cellular has been delayed by Samsung’s inability to produce their 3.7” AMOLED displays quick enough, HTC has just announced that the HTC Desire will be hitting the U.S. market sometime in August. Until now, we only thought that the phone would be heading to US Cellular, but HTC’s email announcement indicated that the phone could be showing up at other regional operators as well. The announcement is short and simple, not giving any details on which other carriers would be stocking the phone later this summer, but it’s clear that the HTC Desire will not be coming to any of the big four. At this point, most customers on the larger networks who were looking for something like the HTC Desire have probably already picked up the DROID Incredible, Nexus One, or the recently launched HTC EVO 4G.
Just wanted to let you know that the HTC Desire will be coming to the US via select regional operators beginning this August. The operators will have more specific details on the device (pricing, specifications, etc.) as we get closer to availability, but I can tell you that it will feature the same 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Android 2.1 with HTC Sense that has proven so popular on the international version of HTC Desire.
The HTC Hero has already been well received by customers in regional markets, and the HTC Desire represents the next step for HTC in bringing the power of Android and the usability of HTC Sense to even more consumers across the country. We’ll continue to keep you posted as we get closer to availability.
