About a year ago, a judge ruled that HTC was in violation of an Apple patent due to just how closely their “tap system” works in comparison to Apple’s. With this system, you click on a number, text message, or whatever and it gives you a choice of what to do. After the ruling, HTC vowed to make a tweak that would get around this infringement in future Android devices.

It seems that they’ve made good on this promise, and the new system simply works by tapping on a number and it jumps into the dialer. Tapping on an email goes to your email program, etc. While they automatically do the job, you can change what the defaults are for loading through a special settings menu.

Honestly, this isn’t a bad idea, as long as you don’t accidentally hit it. Whenever I’ve hit a phone number in a webpage, I do want to call it- so this could be pretty useful. Still, it seems silly that Apple filed a suit that really does nothing, HTC just found a way around it, and ultimately only users that liked the old method will suffer from the change- it won’t financially hurt HTC and it wouldn’t gain anything for Apple.

The only way it seems to be hurting HTC is that the HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE are currently being held up at US customs while they are examined to insure they don’t infringe on any patents. Hopefully the new changes are enough to satisfy the agencies and that these phones can soon make their way into the hands of eager HTC users.

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The original HTC Desire is getting replaced at Telus by the bigger and hotter HTC Desire HD. Sprint has been rocking the HTC EVO 4G for a while, it’s good to see its GSM counterpart hit our shores too.

As you may recall, the HTC Desire HD boasts the same 4.3-inch mega-sized display as the EVO 4G. This comes accompanied by the 8MP camera, 1GHz processor, and Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities.

You get preloaded with Android 2.2 Froyo and the HTC Sense user interface. I’m not personally a fan of these massive displays (at least it’s smaller than the gargantuan Dell Streak), but all the more power to you if you’re willing to shoehorn this into your jeans pocket and keep it constantly plugged in.

Pricing for the Telus HTC Desire HD runs pretty much par for the course. Take it on no term for $499.99 or sell your soul on a three-year contract for $149.99.

Update: Telus will carry both the HTC Desire and HTC Desire HD. It will not be “replaced” but is more of an upgrade.

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