If you are in India and have been patiently waiting to pick up the sliding QWERTY member of the Desire family, namely the HTC Desire Z smartphone, you may like to know that your wait for the Android 2.2 Froyo handset is now over.

According to an article over on Techtree, HTC has now introduced the HTC Desire Z, which has been listed on Flipkart for the last 3 months, in India and will command a price tag of some RS. 25590

For those that may have forgotten what the HTC Desire Z offers…a 3.7-inch Super Clear LCD touch screen, aluminium casing, HTC Sense user interface with HTCSense.com support, 800 MHz processor, 5 megapixel camera with 720p video, 1.5GB internal memory, WiFi, GPS, DLNA, and Bluetooth.

The HTC Desire Z features a slide out full QWERTY keyboard for ease of texting and has a 1300mAh battery that offers up to 9.8 hours of talk time.

So are any of our readers in India going to snap up the HTC Desire Z now that the Android smartphone has become available?