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3 new HTC handsets announced
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Audi TT
can get it on orange through Carphone Warehouse. I almost did, but the insurance price took the piss, so i'm waiting for official orange release......sadly
Yeah I'm waiting as I have orange care insurance which you can't have if bought through CPW.
Mate has ordered his on Voda for delivery Tuesday. 12 month contract, 600 mins, unlimited txts and data for £35 per month. Phone cost £82. Not bad really.
Will see what Orange can come up with in terms of deals for me.
ITB'd MK1
Just ordered mine, Orange have the Desire from today. done me an excellent loyalty deal too
182FF with cup packs
Just phoned orange up and got myself a HTC Desire for free
Should turn up tomorrow at some point.
I'll do a side by side comparisson to my Nexus One when it arrives.
(there's method in my madness, my N1 doesn't have insurance, the Desire will be on Orange Care, i can then root and custom firmware my Nexus, and I have a backup phone if/when I manage to brick it.)
Should turn up tomorrow at some point.
I'll do a side by side comparisson to my Nexus One when it arrives.
(there's method in my madness, my N1 doesn't have insurance, the Desire will be on Orange Care, i can then root and custom firmware my Nexus, and I have a backup phone if/when I manage to brick it.)
ITB'd MK1
the desire is a higher spec. Legend is still a great phone, single piece aluminium chassis.
Got my Desire this morning. just epic.
Paddy_g46
ClioSport Club Member
with who? It doesnt seem to be available on oranges website? But you can get it with orange from the CPW?
ITB'd MK1
i called for upgrade. telephone.....for making.....phonecalls
Paddy_g46
ClioSport Club Member
i called for upgrade. telephone.....for making.....phonecalls
lolz, I dont have 1. Got drunk and lost it
Will someone give em a quick rundown on this Android i keep hearing about?
Paddy_g46
ClioSport Club Member
I've got the HTC Desire coming on Monday and a proper good deal from Orange
What your deal? Were you an existing customer? Did you ring up/go in store?
Audi TT
I rang up this evening. I'm an existing customer and I think they must like me as they recently made me an Orange Premier customer. Probably because I was in Turkey for 2 weeks in October and spanked the calls, txts and data whilst out there and came out with a couple of horrific bills spread over 2 months. I think I've been with Orange now for about 10yrs as well.
Anyways I managed to get:
FREE HTC Desire, 800mins, unlimited txts, unlimited internet (think fair usage is 1gb), 50 picture messages, orange maps sat nav (doesn't impact on data), orange care insurance - £25pm for 18months
I can't see any deals advertised online anywhere near touching that.
I think it must be the Panther 40 contract that they have given me which would be £35 bought online and then applied a £10 loyalty bonus to it and possibly chucked in insurance if that's not included on panther contracts, I can't remember if it is normally.
Anyways I managed to get:
FREE HTC Desire, 800mins, unlimited txts, unlimited internet (think fair usage is 1gb), 50 picture messages, orange maps sat nav (doesn't impact on data), orange care insurance - £25pm for 18months
I can't see any deals advertised online anywhere near touching that.
I think it must be the Panther 40 contract that they have given me which would be £35 bought online and then applied a £10 loyalty bonus to it and possibly chucked in insurance if that's not included on panther contracts, I can't remember if it is normally.
Audi TT
Just phoned orange up and got myself a HTC Desire for free
Should turn up tomorrow at some point.
I'll do a side by side comparisson to my Nexus One when it arrives.
(there's method in my madness, my N1 doesn't have insurance, the Desire will be on Orange Care, i can then root and custom firmware my Nexus, and I have a backup phone if/when I manage to brick it.)
PC - what contract did you get with Orange? They've apparently stopped offering 12month contracts now. I tried offering to pay something for the phone up front for a 12 months one but they weren't playing ball on that.
What's the real benefit to rooting and running a custom ROM on the N1 btw? Does it offer anything really over an above a normal N1?
What android apps can you recommend that you've been running on the N1? I'm looking forwards to playing with the google goggles and night sky apps.
182FF with cup packs
I'm on an 18 month Dolphin 35.
500 anytime minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited Internet.
First glance at the HTC Desire is making me think that the UI is even better than the one on the Nexus.
Not sure about the hardware buttons yet, but that's probably because I have gotten usd to the weird touch buttons on the Nexus.
As to apps I've been using on the Nexus:
Amazon MP3 store
Ringdroid (allows you to make ringtones/alarms/notifications out of any medial files you have (i.e. MP3's)
Mileage (MPG tracking app)
Network Monitor Pro (keeps track of data usage on both WiFi and 2/3g seperatly, very nice if you don't have an unlimited data connection)
Locale (does things depending on triggers, i.e. when I get home it turns on wifi and turns off bluetooth, when i get to work it turns off wifi and gps, when I plug headphones in it autoplays music)
ConnectBot (Telnet/SSH client)
WiFi Analyzer (scans for AP's and shows what channels they are on, signal strength, will analyse and suggest a better channel to set your wifi up on to avoiid interference from overlapping AP's)
Network Discovery (IP and port scanner)
Dolphin Browser (replacement for default browser)
beebPlayer (like iPlayer, but will allow you to stream over 3g if you aren't on TMobile or 3 [the official one won't])
Race Ace (It's a GPS based lap timer which also logs the g's with the accelerometer, then will plot the results over google maps
Grav-O-Meter (Gravity/acceleration meter [shows your acceleration due to gravity in all 3 axis])
I think it's also about time we had a Android forum like the iPhone one, as I reckon that HTC are going to steal a massive amount of customers with this phone and interface.
edit: Rooting will allow you to run certain apps that you cannot when not rooted, but it does invalidate your warranty, as it also allows you to do things like overclocking it. It also allows you to install custom firmware roms like the Cyanogen Mod where some very clever people have pulled together all the best bits from all the Android implementations on the different platforms and combined them into one. For instance the N1 doesn't allow tethering, by rooting or custom firmware you can enable usb and bluetooth tethering and also WiFi tethering (i.e. the phone becomes an AP for wireless devices)
500 anytime minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited Internet.
First glance at the HTC Desire is making me think that the UI is even better than the one on the Nexus.
Not sure about the hardware buttons yet, but that's probably because I have gotten usd to the weird touch buttons on the Nexus.
As to apps I've been using on the Nexus:
Amazon MP3 store
Ringdroid (allows you to make ringtones/alarms/notifications out of any medial files you have (i.e. MP3's)
Mileage (MPG tracking app)
Network Monitor Pro (keeps track of data usage on both WiFi and 2/3g seperatly, very nice if you don't have an unlimited data connection)
Locale (does things depending on triggers, i.e. when I get home it turns on wifi and turns off bluetooth, when i get to work it turns off wifi and gps, when I plug headphones in it autoplays music)
ConnectBot (Telnet/SSH client)
WiFi Analyzer (scans for AP's and shows what channels they are on, signal strength, will analyse and suggest a better channel to set your wifi up on to avoiid interference from overlapping AP's)
Network Discovery (IP and port scanner)
Dolphin Browser (replacement for default browser)
beebPlayer (like iPlayer, but will allow you to stream over 3g if you aren't on TMobile or 3 [the official one won't])
Race Ace (It's a GPS based lap timer which also logs the g's with the accelerometer, then will plot the results over google maps
Grav-O-Meter (Gravity/acceleration meter [shows your acceleration due to gravity in all 3 axis])
I think it's also about time we had a Android forum like the iPhone one, as I reckon that HTC are going to steal a massive amount of customers with this phone and interface.
edit: Rooting will allow you to run certain apps that you cannot when not rooted, but it does invalidate your warranty, as it also allows you to do things like overclocking it. It also allows you to install custom firmware roms like the Cyanogen Mod where some very clever people have pulled together all the best bits from all the Android implementations on the different platforms and combined them into one. For instance the N1 doesn't allow tethering, by rooting or custom firmware you can enable usb and bluetooth tethering and also WiFi tethering (i.e. the phone becomes an AP for wireless devices)
182FF with cup packs
Ok, I'm about |-----| this close to selling my N1 now.
The HTC sense UI on top of Android 2.1 running on a Snapdragon is pretty damn slick.
It's also got some extra features over my N1. For instance, the exchange sync feature now syncs your calander directly into the phone calander as well.
The camera seems better as well, it has touch foucus on the screen (the nexus was centre fixed) and face recognition.
It also seems to have slightly better reception, on my desk at work the N1 was constantly switching from 2g to 3g, the HTC seems to be stable on 3g.
Transfering stuff over was a piece of cake, Astro File Manager to backup all the apps to SDCard, stick SDCard into HTC, download Astro File Manager, restore all the apps.
Contacts is a piece of cake, as they are pulled from my facebook/exchange/gmail account. (So if you do have one and you lose it, you keep all your contacts, because they're all in the cloud, put your account details into a new phone, give it a couple of mins to sync, they're all back)
The HTC sense UI on top of Android 2.1 running on a Snapdragon is pretty damn slick.
It's also got some extra features over my N1. For instance, the exchange sync feature now syncs your calander directly into the phone calander as well.
The camera seems better as well, it has touch foucus on the screen (the nexus was centre fixed) and face recognition.
It also seems to have slightly better reception, on my desk at work the N1 was constantly switching from 2g to 3g, the HTC seems to be stable on 3g.
Transfering stuff over was a piece of cake, Astro File Manager to backup all the apps to SDCard, stick SDCard into HTC, download Astro File Manager, restore all the apps.
Contacts is a piece of cake, as they are pulled from my facebook/exchange/gmail account. (So if you do have one and you lose it, you keep all your contacts, because they're all in the cloud, put your account details into a new phone, give it a couple of mins to sync, they're all back)
172 Cup, Ibiza Cupra
Too small? It's got a bigger screen than the iPhone. I do like my iPhone alot but it's too slow and i'm not upgrading to the 3GS just becuase it's an iPhone.
Desire looks lightning quick and it will stop me arsing about all day playing with stupid apps. Screen looks lovely too (as far as i can see from videos etc)
Desire looks lightning quick and it will stop me arsing about all day playing with stupid apps. Screen looks lovely too (as far as i can see from videos etc)
ITB'd MK1
ITB'd MK1
desire is 3.7 inch screen. iPhone 3gs is 3.5.
182FF with cup packs
From their respective manufacturer websites:
Iphone:
Height: 4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
Width: 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
Depth: 0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
Weight: 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
HTC Desire:
Height: 4.7 inches (119 mm)
Width: 2.36 inches (60 mm)
Depth: 0.47 inch (11.9 mm)
Weight: 4.76 ounces (135 grams)
They're pretty much an identical size,but the Desire has a bigger, higher resolution screen. (The iphone is 480*320 @ 3.5", the Desire is 480*800 at 3.7")
I am very impressed with the Sense UI. I really liked Android before with the vanilla version on my Nexus, but the Sense UI from HTC makes it even slicker. A couple of the iPhone owners at work have been very interested in it.
Rav4
What is Sense?
Sorry, haven't had time to read all of it.
Not up to speed with HTC's / Android and so on.
Sorry, haven't had time to read all of it.
Not up to speed with HTC's / Android and so on.
What?
Have you even used Sense? I've got the HD2 and it's brilliant. With a couple of simple tweaks it knocks the socks of the iPhone. :rasp:
Discuss...
182FF with cup packs
I use my Nexus in my car system quite nicely, it just Bluetooths to my head unit and plays like that.
You can update it with any machine that can read/write to a usb memopry stick.
You plug the phone in using a (completly standard) usb cable, the memory card from the phone appears as a drive, you dump the update.zip into the root of the memory card, you reboot the phone and it runs the update. (I had to do it this way because the OTA updates for "pinch to zoom" weren't being done in the UK, so I had to download.
Also, you can sync it with a Mac the exact same way, it just acts as a memory stick, you copy files to it. There's no need for anything else. All you contacts and such like are backed up in "the cloud" anyway if you use Gmail, so you don't need to really sync anything except music.
In fact, when I put my SIM & SD Card from my N1 into my Desire, all I had to do was log into my googlemail account and the Desire synced up everything contact related from my N1.
Also, did I mention that it used STANDARD micro usb? :rasp: (and not some weird manufacturer specific thing you need an adaptor for)
At work I actually use a data cable from a Nokia to charge it off my laptop. And you can charge it off of any USB port you like (I charge mine off of the usb port on my car stereo head unit)
Tom
ClioSport Club Member
EV (s)
I knew someone would harp on about it.
Fact is its nowhere near as trouble free to update as an iPhone.
And you cant sync it in the same way because the N1/Desire wont sync fully with iTunes
I'd love to see you jam a desire/n1 into my iPod cable in my car.
I'm not knocking it, it just doesn't fit within my lifestyle.
Fact is its nowhere near as trouble free to update as an iPhone.
And you cant sync it in the same way because the N1/Desire wont sync fully with iTunes
I'd love to see you jam a desire/n1 into my iPod cable in my car.
I'm not knocking it, it just doesn't fit within my lifestyle.
182FF with cup packs
Out of interest, how do you update an iPhone?
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