The Official HTC Desire Thread

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Racist! you only like black

lol, in terms of the colour of my phone I prefer black over brown.

I've never switched contracts or anything like that before... if I were to use the mobiles.co.uk and their 'upgrade options', is it really as simple as putting in your number and away you go or what?

[ProbablyJoe]

Good question, I'm currently waiting to find that out myself. Put through an order to upgrade on Orange there yesterday.

I'm going to expect the worst, and assume that they'll only allow you to upgrade if you're within your service provider's upgrade period (Usually the last 1-6 months of your contract). I hope I'm wrong!

If you're switching networks though, you'd have to pay off whatever's left of your contract for sure.

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Well I'm finished my contract in august and due a new phone in may so hopefully it should be ok

[Mblaster]

Anyone know how long until the phone will be available direct from the networks? Going to be much easier for me if I can just get the upgrade direct from Orange rather than going through a third party like mobiles.co.uk.

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ProbablyJoe - let us know how you get on with that.

[Nelsaidi]

Its a nice phone, recomend it to anyone - but i'm bummed now i think mine has a dead pixel and its just become 7 days since recieving it, so will try and get it replaced

[WhiteGiant]

I went into Carphone last week, they told me I couldn't have the Desire as it isn't released for a month! The liars.

Offered me the HD2 for £150 up front if I continued paying £35 a month.

Needless to say I walked out.

[ProbablyJoe]

Anyone know how long until the phone will be available direct from the networks? Going to be much easier for me if I can just get the upgrade direct from Orange rather than going through a third party like mobiles.co.uk.

Good question. The official word is April 2nd for Orange, yet it still doesn't show up on their site. Seems like availability is pretty limited though, a lot of pre-orders from mobiles.co.uk still haven't been sent out apparently.

Offered me the HD2 for £150 up front if I continued paying £35 a month.

Hah, yeah, when I told O2 I wanted to cancel my contract so I could switch to Orange for a Hero, they tried to tempt me with that too. Kinda missing the point that I wanted an Android phone, and at that point they stocked absolutely none. Even if they did, HTC manages to bring Android to a entirely new level.

[WhiteGiant]

Apparently available 29th April on o2.

o2 Forum linky.

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Update: mobiles.co.uk came through.

Have the phone. love it.

Now have to cancel the 1 month free trial crap I got with it, like tech Help and insurance, and stuff.

Otherwise, seriously happy.

Which is quite sad, in a way.

[JimmyBoy]

I recently purchased a hd2 but since seeing this, and discovering how poo win mob 6.5 is im regretting it. hopefully i'll be able to sell the hd2 for a good enough price that the desire is affordable for me

[ProbablyJoe]

Unfortunately the upgrade was as I expected:

Hello,

Thank you for your recent order.

Unfortunately your chosen network has stated that you are not eligible for an
upgrade. This could be for a number of reasons. Please contact our Sales Team using
the link below for further information on this matter.

Looks like no Desire for me Short of selling my Hero (which has already seen a bit of wear and tear in 6 months) and shelling out £2-300 for a Desire. Might take a trip into Carphone/Phones4U but I doubt they'd be able to offer me much.

[tincaman]

Just got my 1st paper bill. Not only have they put me on 24months instead of 18, there is the delivery charge of £6.80 which was never mentioned plus VAT on the whole lot to add on, so my £89 is now £104 + £8 delivery

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Just got my 1st paper bill. Not only have they put me on 24months instead of 18, there is the delivery charge of £6.80 which was never mentioned plus VAT on the whole lot to add on, so my £89 is now £104 + £8 delivery

Where did the £89 come from?!

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Update: mobiles.co.uk came through.

Have the phone. love it.

Now have to cancel the 1 month free trial crap I got with it, like tech Help and insurance, and stuff.

Otherwise, seriously happy.

Which is quite sad, in a way.

How long did you have left on your contract? If mine is up in august would I be able to get a new one now through mobiles.co.uk?

[tincaman]

I should be on 18months, £20 / month, 300mins/300txts. The upfront charge was £129, but I asked for a discount and it came down to £89