Earlier our good friend Paul who runs the Twitter Account for VodafoneNZ (http://www.twitter.com/VodafoneNZ) announced on the Vodafone Forums 3 new Android devices will be coming to our shores & at a great price also

• HTC Desire (OS 2.1) $999 RRP
• Sony Ericsson X10i Mini Pro (OS 1.6) $599 RRP
• LG Optimus (OS 1.6) $399 RRP

This is what was said in short by Paul on the forums

First off the rank we have the HTC Desire, with its 1GHz snapdragon processor and its 3.7” AMOLED full touch screen.

The Desire is one of the leading lights of the Android world and includes HTC’s native platform “Friendstream” which collates all your social media updates from Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. The HTC Desire will be selling for $999 RRP (less if you’re on a contract).

Complementing our Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i is the X10i Mini PRO which offers a full touch screen plus slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 5MP camera with autofocus and LED flash. Retailing from $599 RRP.

Rounding out the Android collection will be the LG Optimus (GT540), with its 3” full touch screen display, 3MP camera with auto face tagging technology and advanced multimedia supporting DivX & Xvid. The LG Optimus will be selling for $399 RRP.

You can see the full post on the forum here – http://forum.vodafone.co.nz/topic/5335-these-are-the-droids-you’ve-been-looking-for/

To get a idea on what your in for I did a little research on the 3 devices & have specs & pictures of all 3 devices thanks to the guys at gsmarena.com (the specifications below have been slightly altered to match NZ specifications)

Specifications

HTC Desire

GENERAL

2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100

SIZE

Dimensions: 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm

Weight: 135 g

DISPLAY

Type: AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Screen Size: 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

• Multi-touch input method
• Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
• Optical trackpad
• HTC Sense UI

SOUND

Alert types: Vibration, MP3

Speakerphone: Yes – 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY

Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records: Practically unlimited

Internal: 576 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM

Card slot: MicroSD, up to 32GB

DATA

GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps

WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth: Yes v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port: No

USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA

Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Features: Smile detection, GEO-Tagging

Video: Yes, WVGA (800×480 pixels) @ 15fps

Secondary: No

FEATURES

OS: Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)

CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor

Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

Browser: HTML

GPS: Yes

• Digital compass
• Dedicated search key
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail
• YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
• MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player
• MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 player
• Facebook, Flickr, Twitter applications (Including Contact Sync With Official Facebook & Twitter Applications)
• Voice memo

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh

Stand-by: Up to 340 h (2G) / Up to 360 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 6 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 30 min (3G)

LG Optimus

GENERAL

2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100

SIZE

Dimensions: 109 x 54.5 x 12.7 mm

Weight: 115.5 g

DISPLAY

Type: TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K colors (65K effective)

Screen Size: 320 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches – Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

SOUND

Alert types: Vibration, MP3

Speakerphone: Yes – 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY

Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records: Practically unlimited

Internal: 130 MB storage

Card slot: MicroSD, up to 32GB

DATA

GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth: Yes v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port: No

USB: Yes, microUSB

CAMERA

Primary: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus

Features: Geo-tagging, face detection

Video: Yes, VGA@17fps

Secondary: No

FEATURES

OS: Android OS, v1.6 (Donut)

Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

Browser: HTML

GPS: Yes

• Social networking integration with live updates
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail
• YouTube, Google Talk
• Facebook, Twitter, Bebo integration
• MP4/DivX/Xvid/H.264/H.263/WMV player
• MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
• Organizer
• Document viewer
• Voice memo
• T9

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Stand-by: Up to 500 h (2G) / Up to 500 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 5 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 7 h 20 min (3G)

Sony Ericsson X10i Mini Pro

GENERAL

2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100

SIZE

Dimensions: 90 x 52 x 17 mm

Weight: 120 g

DISPLAY

Type: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Screen Size: 240 x 320 pixels, 2.55 inches

• QWERTY keyboard
• Scratch-resistant surface
• Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• Timescape UI

SOUND

Alert types: Vibration, MP3

Speakerphone: Yes – 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY

Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records: Practically unlimited

Internal: 128 MB

Card slot: microSD, up to 16GB

DATA

GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps

3G: HSDPA

WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth: Yes v2.1 with A2DP

Infrared port: No

USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA

Primary: 5 MP, 2560х1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Features: GEO-Tagging

Video: Yes, VGA@30fps, video light

Secondary: No

FEATURES

OS: Android OS, v1.6 (Donut)

CPU: Qualcomm MSM7227 600MHz

Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

Browser: HTML

GPS: Yes

• MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
• MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
• TrackID music recognition
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
• YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
• Document viewer
• Voice memo
• T9

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Po

Stand-by: Up to 285 h (2G) / Up to 360 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 4 h (2G) / Up to 3 h 30 min (3G)

Those are the Specs for all three devices thanks again to gsmarena.com & now for some pictures of the 3 devices once again thanks to gsmarena.com

Pictures

HTC Desire

LG Optimus

Sony Ericsson X10i Mini Pro

Credits: Thanks Paul at VodafoneNZ for letting us know about this & the guys at gsmarena.com for the pictures & specs.