High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The HTC Desire (codenamed Bravo) is a smartphone developed by the HTC Corporation, announced on 16 February 2010 and released in Europe and Australia in the second quarter of the same year. The HTC Desire runs the Android operating system, version 2.2 "Froyo". Internally it bears a strong resemblance to the Nexus One, but differs in some features.