Wireless provider Vodafone UK has announced that pre-ordering is available for the highly anticipated HTC Desire smartphone, launching officially on April 8, 2010. Vodafone will offer the handset for free with a two-year contract agreement at a minimum £30 per month plan.

The HTC Desire, powered by the Google Android 2.1 operating system, sports the speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at 1GHz, making it Flash 10.1 ready. Hardware features include a 3.7″ WVGA touchscreen display with multi-touch capability along with an optical joystick and the HTC Sense user interface.