{"id":499680,"date":"2010-04-01T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/androidcommunity.com\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2010-04-01T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T14:43:55","slug":"3-uk-htc-desire-arrives-april-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499680","title":{"rendered":"3 UK HTC Desire arrives April 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK carrier 3 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.three.co.uk\/2010\/04\/01\/htc-desire-launch-date-price\/\" >have announced<\/a> that they&#8217;ll be the next network to offer the <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcommunity.com\/tag\/htc-desire\" >HTC Desire<\/a>, with the Android 2.1 smartphone arriving on Tuesday April 20th. \u00a0Priced from free on a \u00a335 monthly agreement or \u00a3349.99 on pay-as-you-go, the Desire will be initially sold as a generic device with the 3-branded version rocking up on May 3rd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6529\" title=\"HTC_Desire_Unboxing_SlashGear_1\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.androidcommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HTC_Desire_Unboxing_SlashGear_1-540x521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-6530\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, apparently 3 users of either the generic or branded Desires will be able to download 3&#8217;s apps from the Android Market and use them as normal, so unless you particularly want the carrier&#8217;s logo on your phone there&#8217;s no reason to wait. \u00a0Upgrades for existing customers are also available, of course, though you&#8217;ll have to ring customers services to find out exactly how much it might set you back.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re still undecided on the HTC Desire, head over to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/htc-desire-review-2979500\/\" >full review of the handset at SlashGear<\/a>. \u00a0Vodafone&#8217;s version hits the UK <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcommunity.com\/vodafone-htc-desire-preorders-open-arrives-april-8th-20100331\/\" >on April 8th<\/a> and is already available for preorder, while <a href=\"http:\/\/androidcommunity.com\/htc-desire-confirmed-for-march-29th-delivery-in-the-uk-20100325\/\" >T-Mobile<\/a> are apparently already shipping their version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HTC Desire vs. Google Nexus One;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"540\" height=\"336\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/asset.slashgear.tv\/sgplayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/asset.slashgear.tv\/sgplayer.swf\" quality=\"high\" width=\"540\" height=\"336\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/asset.slashgear.tv\/sgtv.php?vkey=31ea2830a5e73ce3ed32\" name=\"SlashGearTV\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK carrier 3 have announced that they&#8217;ll be the next network to offer the HTC Desire, with the Android 2.1 smartphone arriving on Tuesday April 20th. \u00a0Priced from free on a \u00a335 monthly agreement or \u00a3349.99 on pay-as-you-go, the Desire will be initially sold as a generic device with the 3-branded version rocking up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}