HTC Desire Review

[casserced]

Not too impressed either

I , too, have had an HTC desire for 2 weeks. I had an iphone before but wanted something more customisable and with less dominiation from Apple's whims!
Some aspects of the phone are great: ease of use, touch screen works very well for me, flash support. It is a fast system with background running apps (although too many will slow the system down quite a lot)
However there are some very, very annoying things:
- cannot edit or delete a single occurence of a repeated event. I can delete or edit all (this one and future or this one, the past ones and the future ones).... no suitable alternatiove in the Market (yet). HTC is looking into that... slowly...very slowly....
- no working hyperlink in the address book... so if someone you know has a website you cannot enter that information in their contact card! The sync from outlook did not import all the pictures linked to contacts... some did...some did not!
- Music player: easy to import from itune with a free app... but some albums/tracks will be imported with the album/track art and some will not... for no obvious reason.... this is annoying. The one thing I miss from the iphone is the music player. Head and shoulder above the rest.. again the apps on the market are far and few in between and do not compare well at all with the iphone music player.
- The music player does not import the all the genres you have asigned to your tracks... It will know "classical or Pop or Rock.... " if like me you happen to have french (for my sins), spanish, arabic orafrican music.... they are all bunged in the "unknown genre"!!!
- Internal memory:after 2 weeks usage only 25mb left after i have removed some apps I would not use... If I add up the memory available 175mb less the apps downloaded (28.7mb) I should be left with more than 25mb (cache/temp files cleared). all docs/videos/pics are sttored on SD card. Unfortunately HTC phone will not install apps on card to save space :-(

I am going to persevere a bit longer as the potential is good. But a system that sells itself on the ground that it can be customised easily has too many areas where you cannot customise the way you want (change label names in address books, free hand event alert selection etc.......)

at the moment I would give it only a 7/10

[stingman123]

I , too, have had an HTC desire for 2 weeks. I had an iphone before but wanted something more customisable and with less dominiation from Apple's whims!
Some aspects of the phone are great: ease of use, touch screen works very well for me, flash support. It is a fast system with background running apps (although too many will slow the system down quite a lot)
However there are some very, very annoying things:
- cannot edit or delete a single occurence of a repeated event. I can delete or edit all (this one and future or this one, the past ones and the future ones).... no suitable alternatiove in the Market (yet). HTC is looking into that... slowly...very slowly....
- no working hyperlink in the address book... so if someone you know has a website you cannot enter that information in their contact card! The sync from outlook did not import all the pictures linked to contacts... some did...some did not!
- Music player: easy to import from itune with a free app... but some albums/tracks will be imported with the album/track art and some will not... for no obvious reason.... this is annoying. The one thing I miss from the iphone is the music player. Head and shoulder above the rest.. again the apps on the market are far and few in between and do not compare well at all with the iphone music player.
- The music player does not import the all the genres you have asigned to your tracks... It will know "classical or Pop or Rock.... " if like me you happen to have french (for my sins), spanish, arabic orafrican music.... they are all bunged in the "unknown genre"!!!
- Internal memory:after 2 weeks usage only 25mb left after i have removed some apps I would not use... If I add up the memory available 175mb less the apps downloaded (28.7mb) I should be left with more than 25mb (cache/temp files cleared). all docs/videos/pics are sttored on SD card. Unfortunately HTC phone will not install apps on card to save space :-(

I am going to persevere a bit longer as the potential is good. But a system that sells itself on the ground that it can be customised easily has too many areas where you cannot customise the way you want (change label names in address books, free hand event alert selection etc.......)

at the moment I would give it only a 7/10

Google is your friend for the last point, many users have installad all their apps,data etc to their memory cards, I've looked into it and it sounds easy enough, never got round to it as yet though...

[Bob The Drummer]

HTC capacitive stylus review (sort of)

You can buy a stylus for the desire

I ordered the HTC-branded stylus the day I got my Desire, but it only turned up this weekend.

First impressions are that it is a flimsy p.o.s. that does not justify the premium over generic capacitive stylii available from e-bay. The stylus is very light, made from hard plastic, and if it didn't have the HTC logo on the side, you would never guess that it was a genuine accessory for the Desire.

The stylus tip differs somewhat from the sponge-like tips of some of the generics. It is a flat disc of transparent plastic approx 1cm in diameter, with a 1mm red dot in its centre. This disc is joined to the main barrel of the stylus by piece of silver plastic resembling the nib of a fountain pen.

The flat disc is angled slightly and forces you to hold the stylus at a particular angle away from the perpendicular in order for it to make a clean contact with the Desire screen.

The best bit about the stylus is that it was dead on arrival, so I get to sent it back for a refund and warns others not to buy it!

[The Wikir Man]

The best bit about the stylus is that it was dead on arrival, so I get to sent it back for a refund and warns others not to buy it!

send
warn

Last edited by Bob The Drummer; Today at 01:37. Reason: Typos fixed (hopefully)

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