Forgive me Steve Jobs....

[Venger]

...for I have sinned (sorry Rev )...I've just bought a HTC Desire

I've been due an upgrade from O2 since March this year and was waiting for the iPhone 4 but I just cannot bring myself to part with the cash after hearing all the horror stories - yes I know people who encounter problems with a product usually shout the loudest (I would too) and hence get all the press but...

Anyhow, had a play with the Desire at CPW after doing some research online and was impressed...just gotta charge it up and get going...and by the sounds of it, that's something I'll be doing a lot...battery life on these Smartphones ain't the best

Now, where's that instruction book.....

[Pyro Pete]

It looks like a great phone, certainly very highly rated in most reviews I've read

[Signum]

Same boat chap - had i mentioned that before lol. What made you pick desire over the touch or legend etc? We get given HTC G2 Touch for work, the Android OS is very slick.
Such a shame bout iP4 though, looks a really good phone, hopefully they can solve issues - or tey pushed toooo far?

ppfffttt.....next your gonna get ya self on the dell site and sort ya self a PC, getting ya self some proper technology at last i see

[Venger]

Oi, wash your mouth out...Dell...not even a decent PC in PC terms...

Went for the Desire 'cos it has the 1ghz processor so it's supposed to be really fast, the Sense interface over Android is supposed to be very user friendly and it's resolution is supposed to be awesome...I may well have gone for the Wildfire but people have said that the lower resolution is very noticeable (very grainy web pages) so seeing as I'm now locked into a 24 month contract I didn't want to spend that time thinking 'wished I'd gone for the better one'.

Almost all the reviews rate it highly, I use the Cnet review website a lot and they have a very positive review of it and plenty of good user feedback.

Time will tell I guess

[RocketRev]

Originally Posted by Venger5

...for I have sinned (sorry Rev )...I've just bought a HTC Desire

No worries. You're forgiven.
Just tell me, in a few months time, how things work out with that Desire...... just in case I ought to desire one when my upgrade times comes round. (I'm happily on a Nokia N95 8GB at the moment.)

[Venger]

Sorry, I need a rant....

OK so I've been playing with the phone over the last 12 hours or so...still haven't made or received a call or text message (I'll get to that in a mo) but the thing that does get to me is that undoubtedly, these phones are amazing in their technology, they can tell me where I am, I can surf the net and it can tell me if it's raining in Singapore (well actually mine can't but it does tell me what the weather's like in Rome and New York) but in pursuit of these huge technical advances, some of the smaller, boring, day to day stuff, imho, gets forgotten about.

For example, I've used the calender functions in the various phones I've had over the years a lot, I'd really be lost with out it, so I wouldn't expect to move from an ancient Nokia 6300 to a HTC Desire and be worse off...I don't need to schedule a meeting, or a birthday, I just want a reminder pop up at an agreed time and remind me to do something.

The 6300 had a selection of 'events' as described above but the HTC as far as I can see, only has one event possible in the calender...a meeting, so if I need a reminder I have to set a new meeting event up, then set a start and end time ??? I don't need that so I have to set the end time the same as the start time....crazy, little things I know but it's these small things imho that can make a big difference.

Sunday morning in CPW I get told that all new and upgrading customers on O2 are being moved to O2 'proper' that very day - so for years, all my bills have come from CPW but they've got all the O2 logo's all over them etc. but now, O2 are taking it all completely in house, so you deal directly with O2. Couple this with the fact that as my sim card is way over 10 years old, the guy in the shop suggested that it's worth me having a brand new sim to get all the functions out of the phone....so of course now I've got to wait for O2 to port my number to O2...I got a text this afternoon (on an antique phone I'm using with my old sim) saying this won't take place till wednesday and may take 24 hours.

I mean really....is it that hard

...and finally, there appears to be no way to move all your contacts en masse from the SD card to the sim, you can do it the other way round but I want all my contacts on my new sim card....sigh

Sorry, I'll go and lie down for a while....

[RocketRev]

Hmmm.... feedback so quick! I think I'll be holding on to my N95! But this....

Originally Posted by Venger5

as my sim card is way over 10 years old, the guy in the shop suggested that it's worth me having a brand new sim to get all the functions out of the phone....so of course now I've got to wait for O2 to port my number to O2...

Is that really true? I've been with O2 since before it was O2 (i.e. the BT Cellnet days). I did change sim card once..... many ages ago when they moved from credit card size to the current tiddler size. But I haven't had to do so for years. For a long time I was on my original contract..... O2 said it couldn't match it for as long as all I wanted was basic 'phone functions. It was only when I wanted internet access that I had to move to a new contract. But my old sim card was fine..... it was the actual old "Line Advance" contract that couldn't handle the advanced 'phone features. I told you it was an old contract - it pre-dated the internet via mobile phones era! So a simple contract package change did the trick for me.... and all sorted while I waited in the shop. But it was an O2 shop and O2's own contract already on O2's own system......

[Venger]

To be fair to the bloke, he may have had a point because whenever anybody sent me a picture message I could never view it on my phone, I always got a text telling me someone had sent me a picture message and I needed to log onto the O2 website in order to view it - this was despite numerous attempts to download the correct settings from the CPW website onto my phone.

Earlier in the year, when I first started to get the calls and texts re upgrading, I walked into an O2 shop and asked about their deals on a HTC HD2...I said I'm already with O2 via CPW, the response ?....you'll need to leave O2/CPW and port your number across to O2

[damuelson]

I have I phone 4 and it's amazing, and every one else who got one that I know thinks there great. the only problem I have is it's to good have not used a pc since havin it. Love it don't listen to the press mine Is the best phone I ever had. Ps it doesn't help my punctuation though

[Signum]

Lot of horror stories about too tho fella, and the fact they are issuing a case to every user must indicate there is a problem?