Sporting a 3.7-inch AMOLED display with 480 x 800 pixels, Desire measures 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm. Powered by 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the phone runs on Android OS v2.1. Desire has 512MB of ROM and 576MB of RAM. The phone comes with 4GB MicroSD card and the memory can be expanded upto 32GB.
Desire has 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, standard micro-USB and Bluetooth 2.1. For connectivity, the phone supports 3G, aGPS, GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi. Desire packs a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, flash, face detection capability, widescreen photo capture and geotagging. The phone records videos at WVGA resolution (800*480) at 15 fps.The handset comes with music player and FM radio and has both audio and video recording. The phone promises a talktime of upto 6 hrs 40 min on 2G and upto 6 hrs 30 min on 3G.