Get HTC Desire from Maxis Malaysia at RM1499

Maxis Malaysia has added HTC Desire into its lines of Android phone packages starting May 28th. Customers can get the phone at a promotional price of RM1499 with a subscription of Maxis value plans (Value 50 and above) and data plan. HTC Desire looks similar to Google Nexus One with the following differences:

• A different body shell
• An optical trackpad in place of the trackball
• A row of tactile rather than touch-sensitive buttons
• FM radio included
• No second microphone and no noise cancellation audio processor
• 576 MB DRAM instead of 512 MB DRAM
• Dual band HSPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz
• HTC Sense user interface
• Bundled with Adobe Flash Lite 4
• No speech-to-text (though the application can be downloaded)
• Support and updates through HTC rather than Google
• Includes the ‘Sense’ live wallpaper

The HTC Desire has received extremely positive reviews. CNET UK reviewed the phone on March 29th and awarded the phone 9.2/10. TechRadar awarded the phone 5 out of 5 stars and stated “In short, this is a phenomenal phone – one of the best we’ve ever had on TechRadar.

You can now get this phone at a very low price from Maxis. Check out Maxis Android page for more info.