HTC Ace / HTC Desire HD has a normal spec?

Another rumor is out apart from HTC Ace, now its the HTC Desire HD which is the follow up rumor to the HTC Ace device. This will be the next international flagship of HTC but with “normal” aka un”extraordinary” specs?

It is said that the next device would be :

- 4.3 inch screen (LCD or HTC own rival to super amoled?)

- 8MP camera with 720p video recording capabilities ()

- 4GB of internal storage

- 1Ghz Snapdragon processor

My own words to this, the 4.3 inch would be awesome. Seeing it as the GSM version of the Evo 4G and HTC has to make sure that it is comparable to the current leading screen which is the retina display (IPS) on iPhone4 and the SUPER AMOLED (yes, in capitals) on Samsung Galaxy S. Surely it won’t be an Amoled display as we know bout the Amoled shortage which is happening now. Seems like its going to be LCD just like the Evo 4G which is not bad at all as we all see it or HTC might be using its own LCD as we heard (i don’t think so).

The 8MP camera with 720p capabilites is a must, Droid Incredible and Evo 4G owns that feature and considering this is the update to the flagship HTC Desire, they should provide this on the new device.

4GB of internal storage is very handy eventhough most other manufacturers are going 8GB and above. Micro SD’s are appreciated in this situation, just make sure that there are more internal phone space for Apps installation regardless that Froyo enables moving apps to SD cards.

Last but not least, a 1Ghz snapdragon processor? OMG. The Droid X has TI OMAP 1Ghz which is better and the A4 chipset hummingbird on the Galaxy S is far superior in terms of GPU capabilities. Perhaps 1Ghz is sufficient but in terms of GPUs, the Adreno gpu on snapdragons are so yesterday. Perhaps this device is going to be another new snapdragon as they won’t be releasing the same chip on their new flagship which is not capable of running NFS Shift. Hopefully the new chip (1.5Ghz or dual-core based) would perform better than the previous 1Ghz snapdragon to stay on par with the current leading GPU monsters (Droid X and SGS).

By the way, did anyone noticed that NFS Shift which is demoed on the Nexus 1 is running smooth during Google I/O? How come they are saying that snapdragon adreno is not capable of running it at full frames and why we are not able to reproduce that same performance even on Nexus 1 FRF91? Thats a mystery for sure.