Anything bad about Htc desire

KILL_BILL

so i have ordered an htc desire but they are out of stock.

i think that this is the best phone out at the oment even more so than the iphone which is very expensive to get free

for people who have the desire whats the bad points apart from the battery life '?

swilliam

KILL_BILL wrote: »

so i have ordered an htc desire but they are out of stock.

i think that this is the best phone out at the oment even more so than the iphone which is very expensive to get free

for people who have the desire whats the bad points apart from the battery life '?

There is a reception issue. I know the post refers to the Legend, but it also applys to the Desire if you read through.


http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/58054-htc-legend-antenna-issue/

Jon_01

I'd think you'll get a few replies saying the worst thing about it is, its not an iPhone !

djheath

Jon_01 wrote: »

I'd think you'll get a few replies saying the worst thing about it is, its not an iPhone !

I think you will find that is the best thing!!

Seajays

The worst omission I have found (and it is Android OS, not the Desire specifically), is the lack of proxy support on WiFi networks.

Many corporate environments, universities etc., require internet access to go via their proxy servers, however Android itself has no support (or even third-party add-ons) that allow you to set a wi-fi proxy, making Android phones pretty useless in many corporate environments (unless you're happy to incur the data charges... see the thread on Vodafones 500MB usage limit for what that's going to cost you now!)

You can follow the very unhappy people on the lack of proxy setting issue here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1273

BillScarab

Jon_01 wrote: »

I'd think you'll get a few replies saying the worst thing about it is, its not an iPhone !

Since most people seem to have chosen a Desire in preference to an iPhone that's not really very likely is it?

Perosnally I'd say the worst thing is that apps are stored in the phone's internal memory not on the SD Card. But that is a feature of Android and is due to be changed in the next release.

You can also get around it by rooting the phone I believe.

It's a fairly minor issue though as you can still fit a lot of apps in the phone's memory.

Other than that I can't think of anything as the proxy server issue doesn't affect me luckily.

If you have a look here it's a Desire specific forum and people on there have had various issues but I've not experienced them with mine.

mr_fishbulb

BillScarab wrote: »

Perosnally I'd say the worst thing is that apps are stored in the phone's internal memory not on the SD Card. But that is a feature of Android and is due to be changed in the next release.

You can use appmonster to backup applications to the SD card.

jones.ci

The new version of Android (2.2) fixes the app space issue - they'll be installed to the SD card instead of internal memory.

I don't know if it will fix the lack of proxy support - I can't use by uni's wifi atm. We'll have to wait and see.

2.2 might be released today, or at least we should find out lots of details about it. Google I/O starts in a couple of hours.

fatboy88

What does it mean by proxy support? Does that mean i cant use my home broadband, dont get my desire till 25th

BillScarab

You can use your home broadband, I can also use the WiFi access point at work. It's only in ceratin cases you need proxy support. I suspect for most people it's not going to be a problem.

swilliam

Seajays wrote: »

The worst omission I have found (and it is Android OS, not the Desire specifically), is the lack of proxy support on WiFi networks.

More then not abtaining a signal and therefore not in the position to use it as a 'errrr' phone ?

It appears there are some pretty irate people with an HTC desire on vodafone who get diddly squat reception. Pretty much like that Nokia 97 disaster last year ( another so called iphone winner that got - zero bars - of signal while standing under the transmitter.


I would have to place that has the worst omission for a phone ?