I agree with that review. As I already said in the set of devices I have
available, that one's my 'favorite'.
A couple of my colleagues have one for personal use as well and are very
happy with it. BTW, there's also a revamped 'S' version of the desire
which is a gingerbread device. It's probably a bit more expensive than
the regular desire though.
Pepijn
On 27/04/2011 22:22, Tommy wrote:
Here is engadgets review of the desire...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/htc-desire-review/
Accoding the the last section called "Wrap-up" the first paragraph reads:
The Desire is yet another fine piece of work from HTC -- build quality
is top notch as usual, and there's little to complain about the
software except for the Flash performance. Some may argue that the
Desire lacks freshness since the Nexus One's already shown it all, but
we'd disagree -- at the end of the day it's mainly about the software
andservice
<http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/google-starts-live-phone-support-to-nexus-one-owners/>,
plus the Desire is available from more carriers to begin with (outside
the US, anyway).
If I were looking into buy the phone given the review I wouldn't feel
bad about buying it, but that's me.
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Thanks.
Is the Desire a good choice?
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Tommy <droi...@gmail.com
<mailto:droi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I would HIGHLY recommend HTC.... THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL PHONES! One of my
phones is the HTC Aria I use for development and my main personal
phone.... Great phones. An example.... My wife threw a pair of paints
at me as hard as she could (we were playing around she wasn't trying
to kill me) but she didn't know my HTC was in my pocket... Well the
pants missed me by a mile(probably b/c she is a girl J) and hit the
oak bed back.... I heard the phone hit and just assumed the phone was
trashed... It hit really hard... The only thing that happened was the
case popped off... No cracks... no breaks... Phone still works like it
did when it was knew....
I recommend HTC to anyone and everyone until they show me they don't
deserve to be recommended.
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<mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com>] *On Behalf Of *Raghav Sood
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Thanks Pepijn. That helps a lot. I'll most probably do with a HTC now.
Thanks everyone.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt
<pep...@vaneeckhoudt.net <mailto:pep...@vaneeckhoudt.net>> wrote:
On 27/04/2011 16:12, Raghav Sood wrote:
Okay. I'll check that out. Still can someone suggest a reasonably
priced android 2.2 or above phone?
Thanks
Since no one's giving you any advice I'll give it a try ;)
The dev phones I use myself are Motorola Milestone XT720, HTC Desire,
Samsung Galaxy S and a Google Nexus S; one for each OS revision. I
know these are all high-end devices, but I can try to extrapolate my
experience with those.
Objectively, they're all fairly similar for development purposes. I
don't use these phones for anything besides testing so I can't comment
on any Android customizations each vendor might have made.
Subjectively, I prefer the HTC the most in terms of feel and build
quality. HTC seems to do a pretty good with their OS updates as well
and they actually use OTA updates rather than requiring some buggy
proprietary tool.
If you stick with HTC the only model they seem to have in the 230 euro
/ Rp. 15000 price range is the wildfire. The wildfire is listed in
Belgium at 229 euro and the wildfire S at 289 euro. The first one is a
Froyo device, the second one Gingerbread.
I don't know about the specific Samsung model you mentioned, but the
Galaxy and Nexus are pretty good too FWIW. The only downsides to
Samsung IMO is that you have to use Kies to perform upgrades which can
be a pain and they feel rather flimsy, plasticy. The HTC has a
sturdier feel to it.
Hope this helps,
Pepijn
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