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Posted by James1000
It's taken me about 4 hours of playing around with it, transferring 8gb of files, personalising and figuring things out, to figure it out.

I'm used to and have had for about 5 years. I was gonna get a Elm, but I thought I would treat myself and have a change. I'm pretty happy with it so far and I think it will get better as time goes on.

I don't like the earphones that come with it, they don't have enough bass (not that I like a lot) and are a bit too "tinny" but quite clear nonetheless.

I also need a 16gb memory card as my 8gb card has been full for quite some time. I would like one of those leather pouches as well.

I went for this set up for my main screen


[ This Message was edited by: James1000 on 2010-05-29 21:42 ]



Posted by hihihans
Congratulations with your new toy James.
Please tell us all about it. It's on my wife's "maybe this one" list

Posted by Bonovox
Nice

Posted by James1000

On 2010-05-29 22:41:29, hihihans wrote:
Congratulations with your new toy James.
Please tell us all about it. It's on my wife's "maybe this one" list



Thanks

I can't find the equaliser on it to boost the bass. But other than that it's brilliant. The build quality is something else, puts to shame. It's nice and heavy, no creaks, or large spaces or bits of lovely silver that will eventually wear away!

There is a little button that you can use if you don't want to touch the screen as well. It works surprisingly well.

It comes with a USB cable that doubles up as the charger cable when connected with the plug! Nice little touch.

Very easy to set up. Only thing that takes time is personalising it. I like it that there is no service provider name when I put a wallpaper of my choice. I'm looking forward to adding some more widgits if there are more for the HTC online. There are about 6 main pages to play with after all! I'm using one for bookmarks and one for calendar (of which there are a few style choices)




Posted by adnansanni
Congratulation. It's about time you post this thread. Thanks. I'm going to get one tomorrow, but can't decide which one should I get; Desire or X10.
If possible could you post some more picture of your new phones?

Posted by Caspa
Loving the Desire, great handset...

Posted by weirdwilli
I love my Desire, amazing phone and with Froyo coming soon to it, it should really be seen as a threat to the iPhone. The screen is just amazing, incredibly vibrant and large in comparison to the competitors.
I've installed LauncherPro to use instead of Sense, if anyone wants to check it out

Posted by dougproctor
Willi, if you love your Desire so much, why is it on the "for sale" thread??

Posted by weirdwilli
I miss my iPhone, while the Desire is technically the better phone, Android just doesn't feel as completely bullet proof as the iPhone OS at the moment and I don't want to have to wait for HTC to customise their Sense user interface to make it work on 2.2, when I don't even use it! I can tell that it'll get irritating fairly soon, and I've missed the jailbreaking community!
The apps are another downfall, while many applications are being brought out constantly to compete, because Android is so fragmented, I'd imagine that Devs are having a hard time coding their games for the OS, when on some phones it won't work, others it'll lag, and only the high end phones can manage them. Because of this, I've found about one game with decent graphics as opposed to the fantastic titles constantly appearing on the AppStore (namely GTA, which was fantastic and ran well on my iPhone 2G!)
Don't get me wrong, Android is amazing and Google are trying everything they can to leapfrog Apple, with flash, and the open source nature of it, which is dandy but they're also missing out in important areas.
It's likely just me being a typical 16 year old which makes me want decent games and a constant library of things to do on my device to be honest

Posted by MWEB
Nice summation Willi, your wise beyond your years everyman and his dog are buying Desires, i have purchased several, for friends abroad, but i'm resisting it thus far.

Posted by AbuBasim

On 2010-05-30 20:27:21, weirdwilli wrote:
I miss my iPhone, while the Desire is technically the better phone, Android just doesn't feel as completely bullet proof as the iPhone OS at the moment [snip!]

The Desire's hardware leaves something to be desired as well:

- At least for those of us living where there's plenty of sunlight the AMOLED display makes the phone unusable outdoors. After having owned an HTC TyTN suffering the same problem I will never again buy a phone that can't be used both indoors and outdoors.

- And all HTC's phones using their latest 5 MP camera are plagued with the same problem: a large pink blob in the center of all photos when you shoot photos of bright objects. Look at GSMArena's reviews of the HD2, Nexus One, Legend, HD mini and the Desire and notice the resolution test shots from all these phones have exactly the same problem.
[ This Message was edited by: AbuBasim on 2010-05-31 06:17 ]


Posted by masseur
finally got a desire today to play with.

so far I've turned it on an set my wifi key (it only excepted a hex key and not my ascii phrase!?) and tried mobile esato on the browser, and it seems pretty nippy actually, faster than the HD2 I had with the same processor

I'll try it until next week at least to see what I think of my second android experience, the first being that cheapo tmobile pulse running 1.6 (or was it 1.5?) which I played with for an evening

Posted by weirdwilli
Masseur, you talk about the browser being pretty speedy, which I agree with, however do you sometimes get a few seconds of nothingness as if you are connecting to a network once pressing enter to navigate to a page?
It'll go, but just almost hang for a few seconds occasionally before it starts loading and I'm not sure if it's just me with the problem, or if it's a common theme with mobile internet.
Cheers

Posted by Geezay


- At least for those of us living where there's plenty of sunlight the AMOLED display makes the phone unusable outdoors. After having owned an HTC TyTN suffering the same problem I will never again buy a phone that can't be used both indoors and outdoors.
[ This Message was edited by: AbuBasim on 2010-05-31 06:17 ]



I too live where sunlight is aplenty! Is the AMOLED on the Desire really "unusable" outdoors? It is currently topping my possible-phones-to-replace-my-xperiax1 list. That would be a shame.

Posted by masseur
@weirdwilli, I've not experienced that yet, but I'm only using wifi so far so perhaps its network orientated?

I've install HTC sync and done a sync only to find that it doesn't sync notes or bookmarks which seems a bit amiss? I also hoped it would sync my outlook emails (iPhone doesn't either, but WM does). I'm guessing the assumption with android is that you'll be using gmail.

I have to say I'm struggling a bit and the learning curve seems a little steeper than I experienced with the iphone initially, but I want to give it a week to get a fair appraisal.

I do like the styling and the screen is fantastic. I'll be interested to compare it with the iPhone 4 in a couple of weeks

Posted by masseur
I've warmed up to the desire now and do quite ilke it. Infact if it wasn't for the iphone this would probably now be my phone of choice. I guess though, that if its wasn't for the iphone in some part, this may not have been the device that it is.

anywhichway, I'm still looking for answers to a couple of things.
1. How to sync with itunes for music, video and podcasts.
2. Although it came unlocked from O2, it does have an O2 startup screen so how to debrand.

I'll be taking time to research these at the w/e

Posted by lemmy31

On 2010-06-11 11:15:03, masseur wrote:
I've warmed up to the desire now and do quite ilke it. Infact if it wasn't for the iphone this would probably now be my phone of choice. I guess though, that if its wasn't for the iphone in some part, this may not have been the device that it is.

anywhichway, I'm still looking for answers to a couple of things.
1. How to sync with itunes for music, video and podcasts.
2. Although it came unlocked from O2, it does have an O2 startup screen so how to debrand.

I'll be taking time to research these at the w/e



Hi Masseur, have a look at Double Twist player and its associated desktop companion....i believe its free at present : http://apps.doubletwist.com/doubleTwist/-395703074765864636 for your itunes synchronisation.

As for debranding, i think you will need to use the goldcard method as described here : http://android.modaco.com/con[....]nericifying-your-t-mo-handset/

Hope this helps


Regards


Craig

Posted by masseur
thanks for those links. I'll check there first!

Posted by James1000
I find it is quite hard to see the screen outside. I usually need to find some shade. Well, I'm in Scotland so it won't be sunny all the time!



Posted by sigea
Been using my P1i and to be honest am completely satisfied with it, however the legend is the first phone that seems to have caught my fancy after a long time.

Have read a few reviews on the net and have heard about a problem with noticeably inferior signal strength on this phone . (http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/htc-legend.htm - reviews).

Anyone else experiencing this problem, and has it been solved by any recent patches/ updates.

Cheers

Sigea

Posted by silmer
Hi. I'm about to buy a new phone. My choice is between an HTC Desire, and a secondhand 3GS(same price). Should the fact that I use a Mac at home, influence my choice?

Posted by LeeG
I have used Android and iOS and to be honest there is good and bad in both, some of the Google apps on Android are just brilliant and the HTC phone builds are great to, but I also listen to lots of music and the iOS is by far better than anything else for music.

I am never completely happy with my phone and don’t think i ever will, as one new phone comes out another trumps it, but that’s tech and that’s why i am hooked !!!

I'm using iPhone 4 for now.......



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