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The latest buzz about the two upcoming variants of the popular HTC Desire smartphone, the Desire HD and Desire Z, is that they have been delayed by two weeks.
While various sources were anticipating their arrival next week – including Vodafone who had the Desire HD up as expected to ship on the 15th – now retailers are stating that they won’t be out until the end of October.
Android Police reports that both phones have failed last minute Google “type approval” testing, and thus that will obviously have to be sorted before they hit the market. Annoying news for those of you keen to get your hands on one of these new pieces of kit.
The Desire HD comes with a 4.3 inch LCD display, a 1GHz processor, and an 8 megapixel camera with dual flash capable of 720p HD recording. The Desire Z has a 3.7 inch display, an 800MHz processor, a sliding Qwerty keyboard and a 5 megapixel camera which can also handle 720p recording.
damn it, just got the email from vodafone saying that it will take two weeks longer. what exaclty means it did not pass google “type approval”? Is HTC fixing all phones now?
Type approval is a very vague term that means (according to Wikipedia, font of all net knowledge ;-) “that the product is certified to meet certain requirements for its type, whatever that may be”.
Google isn’t happy with something, essentially, and it needs to be tweaked.
I guess it is the HTC sense as Google don’t really approve of the sense UI
they shouldn’t make Android open source and hava an apple like closed market/app store if they do not want that manufacturers put their own stuff that they don’t like