And the moment has finally come - HTC has announced its new line-up of Android devices - and they're good. 5 phones (3 product updates and 2 new ones with heavy Facebook integration), one 7" tablet. They even got Zuckerberg involved in the keynote! Apologies for the lack of diversity regarding the sources...

I'll be aiming for the Incredible S. Will post the full keynote when it goes up.

As HTC promised, my unlocked Desire received its over-the-air Froyo update earlier today.

This is HTC's first official Android 2.2 (with Sense) ROM - here are my first impressions:

• It's just so much faster: everything loads much quicker and that's that. They're saying it offers a 2-5X performance improvement - sounds about right.
• Improved Gmail: for me it's probably the most important app (it even beats the actual phone function) - labels now stand out, it's easier to manage multiple accounts, slightly improved UI. "Talk" app has been updated as well.
• Tweaked HTC Sense: it borrows the updates we spotted on the Wildfire (such as the Facebook-enhanced call screen), but also has some new native apps (App Sharing, Flashlight, Videos, Wi-Fi Hotspot). I also noticed some updates in the "Messages" app.
• Device search: when you press the Search key now, it takes you to an updated Nexus One-ish search screen - which doesn't quite work the way I had expected it to...
• Better app management: probably the best thing about this release is a feature (dubbed "A2SD") that enables you to save applications to the SD card instead of saving them to the Desire's limited internal memory - I'm still figuring out how to move everything over, but I'm sure I'll work it out eventually.

That's my take on it - here's another nice review.

By the way, this is a 90MB update - and since you don't have the A2SD feature yet, you may want to make sure (and I didn't) that you have at least 25MB of internal storage available before running the installation.

A lot of people keep asking me whether the HTC Desire is actually worth getting. My answer is YES. Because Android is arguably the future of mobile platforms and the Desire is just the best Android phone out there (the HTC EVO doesn't count, it's not available in Europe).

I had the opportunity of playing around with the Legend, HTC's new Android 2.1 smartphone with that gorgeous unibody design. Here are my thoughts on it:

• it has an overall amazing feel - it's just one of those phones that make you smile when you pull them out of your pocket
• it's sporting Android 2.1 - but with the new and improved HTC Sense experience, which makes everything a lot more pleasant (from overall contacts syncing to the fact that it goes silent when someone calls and you turn it face-down)
• very good battery life
• it's a big experience upgrade, even compared to the HTC Hero (which was named Phone of the Year 2009 by the GSMA and is overall a great phone)
• I'm looking to buy a phone and it's a close call between this one and the HTC Desire

Here's a nice presentation video: