The Official HTC Desire Thread

[Bunjiweb]

Glad you are happy with it, Gotta love Android phones! I Have a Hero myself so although I cannot comment "directly" I am still using Sense UI....

To help conserve the battery, reduce the refresh times of any streams/emails etc. to 1hr intervals, also make sure you have widgets on your home pages for WiFi, mobile internet and GPS so that you can turn them on and off as needed.

Also do remember that batteries should get better if you look after them properly. I can get my Hero to last just over 2 days now after an overnight charge.

The keyboard I wasn't so good with to start with but now I can fly along faster than an old style keypad. I guess it takes time to get used to a new keyboard and it seems to anticipate words you will probably use quite well I think.

Ben

[j.o.s.h.1408]

What do you mean by using the battery properly? how?

How do i change the intervals of the updates?

[Guppy]

HTC Desire unboxing and demo video if anybody's interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0imFD1T5AI

[format]

I want one of these. I'm on Orange and contract is up in August. I know it's out/coming out on Orange soon but I can't see any option to get it on their site.
Will I have to upgrade my plan to get it? Currently on Dolphin 25.
Anyone else got this problem?

[Bunjiweb]

What do you mean by using the battery properly? how?

How do i change the intervals of the updates?

This what I mean by "proper" use of the battery....

http://www.mobilephonecompared.com/m...m-ion-battery/

http://www.technewsdaily.com/everyth...is-wrong-0243/

As for update intervals, it depends on the apps and I don't have the 2.1 version of sense, but in the mail app there is a setting to adjust the intervals at which it checks for updates. The same is available on Peep the Twitter client and on most RSS apps etc.

Ben

[Shooty*]

format = me.

I'm on the same talk plan I had in 1995, I think. Talk 15, or something.

Thinking of cancelling with orange tomorrow. Not sure what kind of penalties they levy, but just tempted to find out.

[format]

format = me.

I'm on the same talk plan I had in 1995, I think. Talk 15, or something.

Thinking of cancelling with orange tomorrow. Not sure what kind of penalties they levy, but just tempted to find out.

If you've been with them so long then you can probably negotiate a much better deal. I'm just going to go into a shop in town tomorrow and ask what the deal with the HTC desire is.

[Hasnath]

My T-mobile upgrade is due in the following fortnight, wondering if I should get this or wait till the new winmo 7 phones are out? When is that btw?

[Shooty*]

Heh. No, despite my length of loyalty, I think I am regarded, as I pay so little, as a nuisance.

[format]

Well you don't ask, you don't get

I'm hoping I can get the desire soon on Orange anyway, I'd rather not change networks if I don't have to.

[ProbablyJoe]

I want one of these. I'm on Orange and contract is up in August. I know it's out/coming out on Orange soon but I can't see any option to get it on their site.
Will I have to upgrade my plan to get it? Currently on Dolphin 25.
Anyone else got this problem?

I believe with Orange you can upgrade your phone once you're 6 months from the end of your contract or something like that. Orange isn't getting it til some point next month though, T-Mobile are getting it earlier for some reason. You should be able to check on their website, though the Desire isn't showing up on there just yet.

You'd be able to get it on that plan but you'd probably have to pay somewhere around £100 to get it if you don't upgrade your contract. I got the Hero for free on a £30/35 (I forget) contract and that was on a special offer.

It's worth calling Orange and asking about it, as you're close to the end of your contract you can probably get a good deal out of them. Failing that, go into Phones4U/Carphone Warehouse, they offer some really good deals on contracts and such, I've had to jump networks twice in the past 2 years before my contract was up, both times they paid off the last few months of my contract and gave me a free phone.

Ironically my old O2 contract would have been up around now, but I jumped ship to get a Hero 6 months ago. I doubt I can get an upgrade out of Oraneg now Though I don't think the Desire is a massive improvement over the Hero, especially with an Android 2.1 upgrade coming to the Hero any time now, it looks like it pretty much fixes all of the minor negatives there were with the Hero compared to some other smartphones - Occasional slowdown, a camera flash, and an even more polished UI, and a higher quality screen.

Battery limitations are just a general design flaw of smartphones. But as someone else said, it's worth putting switches for Wifi/Bluetooth/Mobile Internet/GPS on your homescreen and switching them off if you don't need them at that time. If you have Email/Facebook/etc updating every 10 minutes that'll eat your battery, and GPS even moreso. I think the first 3 switch apps are on the phone already, you can download a GPS switch from the marketplace though.

[format]

I believe with Orange you can upgrade your phone once you're 6 months from the end of your contract or something like that. Orange isn't getting it til some point next month though, T-Mobile are getting it earlier for some reason. You should be able to check on their website, though the Desire isn't showing up on there just yet.

You'd be able to get it on that plan but you'd probably have to pay somewhere around £100 to get it if you don't upgrade your contract. I got the Hero for free on a £30/35 (I forget) contract and that was on a special offer.

It's worth calling Orange and asking about it, as you're close to the end of your contract you can probably get a good deal out of them. Failing that, go into Phones4U/Carphone Warehouse, they offer some really good deals on contracts and such, I've had to jump networks twice in the past 2 years before my contract was up, both times they paid off the last few months of my contract and gave me a free phone.

Ironically my old O2 contract would have been up around now, but I jumped ship to get a Hero 6 months ago. I doubt I can get an upgrade out of Oraneg now Though I don't think the Desire is a massive improvement over the Hero, especially with an Android 2.1 upgrade coming to the Hero any time now, it looks like it pretty much fixes all of the minor negatives there were with the Hero compared to some other smartphones - Occasional slowdown, a camera flash, and an even more polished UI, and a higher quality screen.

Battery limitations are just a general design flaw of smartphones. But as someone else said, it's worth putting switches for Wifi/Bluetooth/Mobile Internet/GPS on your homescreen and switching them off if you don't need them at that time. If you have Email/Facebook/etc updating every 10 minutes that'll eat your battery, and GPS even moreso. I think the first 3 switch apps are on the phone already, you can download a GPS switch from the marketplace though.

Thanks very much for the advice. I barely plan on using GPS and only emails and facebook now and then so hopefully that'll save on battery. Although, I will be using it as my mp3 player so I'll need as much battery as possible.

I'll go into the orange shop tomorrow and ask for a deal, and then check out phones4u etc. Will they have the desire in stock?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Ironically my old O2 contract would have been up around now, but I jumped ship to get a Hero 6 months ago. I doubt I can get an upgrade out of Oraneg now :( Though I don't think the Desire is a massive improvement over the Hero, especially with an Android 2.1 upgrade coming to the Hero any time now, it looks like it pretty much fixes all of the minor negatives there were with the Hero compared to some other smartphones - Occasional slowdown, a camera flash, and an even more polished UI, and a higher quality screen.

Battery limitations are just a general design flaw of smartphones. But as someone else said, it's worth putting switches for Wifi/Bluetooth/Mobile Internet/GPS on your homescreen and switching them off if you don't need them at that time. If you have Email/Facebook/etc updating every 10 minutes that'll eat your battery, and GPS even moreso. I think the first 3 switch apps are on the phone already, you can download a GPS switch from the marketplace though.

i had a hero and the desire is a lot better then it. more faster, more responsive, better camera, better mp3 playback, thinner phone, better looking phone and gorgous screen

[Funkstar]

My T-mobile upgrade is due in the following fortnight, wondering if I should get this or wait till the new winmo 7 phones are out? When is that btw?

Not until autumn.


I'm going to leave this for a few months I think, see if the deals settle down a bit. I also need T-Mobile to get a signal at work, however it has a poor signal in the village my better half lives. Depending how things pan out in the next few months, I'll consider switching to Vodaphone I think.

[Singh400]

I've decided that I am going to get this. Also, decided that I am going to buy the handset SIM free from HandTec and just get a SIM only monthly plan from Orange / O2 / T-Mobile - just haven't decided which one yet.

However this may sway my decision a bit: HTC Desire Black Edition confirmed, coming to Orange UK in late April

Video of the above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-mUxxJIEM

Might aswell ditch the idea of SIM free handset + SIM monthly plan, go for contracted on Orange, and get my discount.

Oh decisions!

[TheAnimus]

switch-a-roodle??

Number goes to a pre-pay sim for 10 days, then back to T-Mobile as a new customer