Top 10 HTC Desire Accessories

The HTC Desire is a truly awesome phone. It’s fast, responsive, has a great screen and it looks gorgeous. It makes my iPhone 3G look and feel dated and is extremely tempting.

To really make the most of your HTC Desire you’ll want to invest in a few accessories, but with so many Desire Cases, Desire Covers, Bluetooth Headphones and Car Kits to choose from, finding the best ones isn’t always easy.

This post runs through ten of our most popular HTC Desire Accessories, most of them are available now with some due in the coming weeks. Demand for all HTC Desire accessories is extremely high at the moment, so if the accessory you want isn’t available at the moment, I’d strongly recommend placing your order anyway – this way you’ll get priority on the stock.

On to the accessories then.

1. HTC Desire Screen Protector SP P360 – Twin Pack

The last thing that you’re going to want to do to the fantastic screen on the Desire is scratch it. These screen protectors from HTC are a great way to keep your screen looking like new. They’re precision cut to size and are quick and easy to install.

2. DAGi Smartphone Slim Line Capacitive Stylus

Not everyone likes using their finger to control their phone – especially those of you who are used to using a stylus on a previous phone. As you may have already noticed, traditional stylus’s don’t work on the HTC Desire as it has a capacitive touch screen – however, there is a solution – the Dagi Capacitive Stylus.

There are 3 Dagi Capacitive Styluses to choose from as well as a HTC branded one for the HTC Desire. What makes these different to a regular stylus is that instead of having a point to press your screen, they have a flat circular disc at the end that works in a similar way to how your finger would.

3. Noreve Tradition A Leather Case for HTC Desire

The HTC Desire is one of the best looking smartphones available, so if you’re going to invest in a case it needs to be just as stylish. Noreve Flip Cases for the Desire hold your phone securely, but without having to slide the phone into a stitched pocket that interferes with the light sensors or blocks the edges of the screen. It uses a tension system to hold your phone securely in place leaving the screen and keypad fully accessible. The Noreve case looks excellent, is made from high quality leather and is surprisingly slim once it’s on your phone.

4. HTC Stereo Headset with Music Controls RC E150

Depending on where you purchased your phone, you may not get any headphones in the box with the HTC Desire. If you don’t then you’ll be needing these – they have a built in microphone so you can use them for handsfree calling as well as an in-line remote control that lets you answer and end calls as well as play, pause, skip and rewind your music.

5. Seidio Innocell Extended Life Battery – HTC Desire

If you need more power for your Desire, you can either carry around a spare battery and swap them over when one dies, or you can get a more powerful battery – and that’s exactly what this is.  The standard Desire battery is 1400mAh where as the Seidio Extended Battery is 1600mAh. It may not seem like a big increase, but it’s enough to ensure that your phone makes it through the day on a single charge.

6. HTC Desire Desktop Charging Cradle

Straight forward and simple, just drop your Desire into the charging cradle and it will charge and sync with your PC. It connects to a spare USB port on any PC or laptop and will allow you to sync your phone with your computer while it charges.

7. SanDisk MicroSDHC Card

Despite the Desire being a great Multimedia handset, it only has a limited amount of internal storage. Some will come with a memory card to get you started, but in most cases these tend to be the smaller 2GB or 4GB cards. As a result, one of the first purchases you will need to make is a bigger memory card. This 16GB memory card can store upto 14000 high quality photos, 3000 songs and 18 hours of video. Using a SanDisk 16GB Memory Card with the Desire will allow you to store more music, games, photos and videos on your phone. Images and video taken using the camera will take up space, so more memory is a must. A 16GB memory card will let you store over 6000 high quality photos, 3000 songs or around 80 hours of standard definition video. A 16GB card is the largest memory card that is currently available, although a32GB Micro SD HC memory card is due for release in the next couple of weeks.

8. HTC CC C200 Micro USB Car Charger

The HTC Desire is a power hungry beast and you’ll soon notice that as you start emailing, going online or watching videos or using your phone for sat nav, your battery will start to drain quite quickly. For this reason a car charger is a worthwhile investment. As with all current HTC phones, the Desire uses the standard MicroUSB charging connection. This genuine HTC Desire charger will work in both 12v and 24v vehicles (Cars, Lorries and Trucks) and can be used to charge any device that has a micro USB charging port.

9. Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth Speakerphone

If you want to listen to music from your Desire in your car but don’t have a 3.5mm line in port on your stereo, don’t panic there is another way to do it – and what’s more, you won’t need to have wires trailing everywhere to do it – all you need is the Jabra Cruiser.

The Jabra Cruiser is a small, slim portable car kit that combines an FM transmitter with a Bluetooth Car Kit. The Jabra Cruiser simply clips to the sun visor of your car and pairs to your Desire, using Bluetooth. The Cruiser supports both the A2DP and AVRCP profiles which means that you can stream your music to it over Bluetooth and control your music using the controls on the Cruiser instead of your phone. The Jabra Cruiser lets you choose whether to play your music back through the built in speaker or through your car stereo using it’s built in FM Transmitter. It ’s currently the only car kit to have dual microphones for improved noise reduction. If you spend a lot of time in the car taking calls and are bored of listening to the radio then the Jabra Cruiser is a must have item. If you don’t want/need the music controls then take a look at the Jabra SP700. It does the same job, just doesn’t have music controls or noise cancellation.

10. Parrot MKi9100 Bluetooth Car Kit

Of all the car kits available, the best kit you can get for calling, music playback and sat nav is one of the Parrot MKi Car Kits. Parrot only make Bluetooth accessories and because of that they make sure that every phone works brilliantly with their car kits. There are three kits in the MKi range, but the Parrot MKi9100 is your best bet for the Desire, mainly because the 3.7? screen on the phone means that you a full colour screen isn’t essential, but it’s nice to be able to see who’s calling and what you’re listening to even if the phone is still in your pocket.

You can play music from your phone through the MKi9100 either by connecting the 3.5mm headphone jack or you can stream your music to it using Bluetooth. The Mki9100 will synchronise with your phone book, and supports voice dialling. There is also a small remote that you can attach to your dash or steering wheel to control your music (Play/Pause, track skip & volume). When you use Sat Nav on your phone, voice instructions come through your car stereo clearly, and if music is playing at the same time, it briefly mutes out the music so that you don’t miss any directions.

If you’ve not seen the accessory here that’s right for you, take a look at our full range of HTC Desire Accessories or let us know what you’re looking for using the comments below.