14 DAY TRIAL // Unveiled in September 2010, HTC Desire Z made its entry on the market the next month and was one of the first Android smartphone to support the services offered by the HTCSense.com portal.
Along with HTC Desire HD, the Desire Z supports cloud-based services and offers users the possibility to access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC through the HTCSense.com.
Android fans living in Canada can now obtain the Desire Z 4G for free via Bell and a new three, two or one year contract.
Customers who do not wish to sign a new contract with the Canadian carrier will have to pay $499.95 upfront for the HTC Desire Z 4G.
With download speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps, the HTC Desire Z 4G is one of the fastest smartphones available in Canada, but is not among the most powerful, as the phone is powered by an 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7230 processor, complemented by an Adreno 205 GPU (graphics processing unit).
HTC Desire Z comes with a medium size S-LCD capacitive multi-touch screen that supports 16 million colors and 480 x 800 pixels resolution.
The phone runs Android 2.2 (Froyo) with HTC Sense UI on top, and features accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, as well as optical trackpad.
There is no official information regarding a possible upgrade to Gingerbread in the near future, but unofficial ROMs with the latest Google mobile platform are already available for download.
The Desire Z sports an average 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash, face detection and video recording capabilities (720p), as well as full slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
It packs 1.5 GB of internal memory, 512 MB RAM, as well as microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).
According to HTC, the phone's 1300mAh Li-Ion battery should provide up to 430 hours of standby time or up to 10 hours of talk time.