The Android 2.1 smartphone HTC Desire is finally available in Germany. T-Mobile is the first German operator selling this smartphone in its shops. Purchase prices at T-Mobile stores range between EUR 4.95 with an expensive 24-months contract and EUR 449.95 without contract commitment. Other operators such as Vodafone and O2 Germany have also announced to market the HTC Desire this month. At o2 Germany stores the Android smartphone will cost EUR 509.00 without contract or EUR 99.90 with contract. Vodafone has not published any purchase prices for the HTC Desire yet.

At German web stores the HTC Desire is available for purchase prices beginning at EUR 435.00, Amazon is selling the handset for approximately EUR 480.00 without contract.

The HTC Desire is the Google phone Nexus One with improvements such as a faster processor (1-GHz Snapdragon by Qualcomm), more RAM, HTC Sense user interface with five homescreens which support widgets and multi-touch support like on the Apple iPhone. The HTC Desire sports a big capacitive AMOLED touchscreen, an optical mouse (instead of a trackpad), 5-megapixel camera with HD video capture, a video player that supports Flash and DivX, HSPA, WiFi and GPS. It runs on the current Android version 2.1.

Read more about the HTc Desire at T-Mobile stores at www.teltarif.de (in German).