[12][13][14][15] The disruption caused by the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull led to some customers waiting a month getting their HTC Desires due to much of European airspace being closed.

The phone uses a 1 GHz ARMv7 "Snapdragon" processor, includes a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera and an optical trackpad, and was among the first consumer devices to feature a large, full-color active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display.

Although this was brought on by a severe AMOLED panel supply shortfall,[17] the new display greatly enhances text readability because of its improved effective resolution, one of the few complaints people had with the original Desire model.

The new SLCD display was claimed to have similar or better power efficiency compared with the original AMOLED display; however, this has proved to not always be the case because with AMOLED pixels' ability to completely turn off, black or dark pixels use very little power.

[20] However, in situations when the screen is predominantly bright (such as when viewing many web pages), the AMOLED display uses more power.

[28] However, on 15 June, they released a statement saying the Desire would receive the Gingerbread update, with the possibility of some apps being cut.

For this reason, the HTC Desire has entered our top 10 at number 1, and the Google Nexus One has dropped out completely.

"[38] MobileTechWorld found the HTC Desire to be a fairly capable product that "manages to please casual users with HTC’s flashy Sense UI and geeks who love to tweak their handsets on a daily basis thanks to the Google’s Android OS".