HTC Desire

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72 of 72 Ciao users found the following review helpful

sghawken

Member since 31/10/2005

Reviews written: 993

The iPhone Killer
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29/06/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Great functions, lovely to use, the best mobile I've ever used
Disadvantages Battery time, it needs charging daily. No Mac connectivity!

I’ve not had the greatest of experiences with touch sensitive mobile phones, LG’s Prada Phone was ok at first, Samsung’s Jet a spewing pile of widgets, and Nokia’s phones more often than not never even got off the starting block. Having owned an iPod touch and loving it to bits, because the sensitivity is just perfect it seemed the viable option that my mobile phone upgrade would take me in the direction of the iPhone. Sadly my network “3” did not offer the iPhone (until straight after my upgrade anyway) and with iPhone’s being on the market for a couple of years now I doubted the event would ... more
29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful

blissman70

Member since 04/09/2006

Reviews written: 880

Happy Talking Chat...? it's what we all desire 29/12/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Easy to use, nice feel, clear calls, good sounds and a nice first smart phone
Disadvantages camera is a bit of a let down

Mobile phones? Most people have owned at least one of these small communication devices during their life times, with some people owning quite a few, even going as far as to be those that sit waiting outside carphone warehouse at midnight in order to be the first to get their hands on the very latest piece of communication technology, (other mobile phone shops are available). Anyway, my point being that a mobile phone is now part of every day life with most areas in the world being capable of receiving some from of signal in order for the little technological crammed pieces of plastic to be ... more
14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful

badongism

Member since 16/12/2005

Reviews written: 77

i-What?
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22/05/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Incredible speed and ease of use, best mobile OS going, best camera for one of these smartphones
Disadvantages Battery life not astoundingly good, bluetoothing contacts is a bit of a faff.

This is my second delving into the world of HTC and Android phones, after owning the hugely brilliant HTC Hero. HTC are becoming more recognised as a brand now and this phone has received a lot of advertising space, complete with TV advert plinky plunky alt. folk music to back it up like all phones/networks/cars/things. So how does HTC's latest offering stack up? It's all too easy to compare this phone with its rivals, so I'm going to try and keep comparisons to a minimum until the end, where I will let loose with a big, comparison laden brain fart. LOOKS Most immediately noticeable from the ... more
62 of 62 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Suavilous

Silently taking over! 23/09/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Full of features and functions, everything in your hand
Disadvantages Then the battery lets you down :-(

Well it was upgrade time for me on my O2 contract and like every other person I wanted either a Blackberry or an iPhone. After much thought and a talking to with my uncle the Blackberry was swiftly removed from this and so the iPhone was the target. So off I went to try and haggle with the people at O2 for it. So I went in store and to other phone shops and I bumped into this. What is it? I asked, 'It's the HTC Desire' was the reply I got from the sales assistant. I asked if I could play around with the real one as the dummy was no doing it any justice and I was immediately converted. After ... more
27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Muffin_the_Mule

Queen Meets Dragon. Dragon Says No. Queen Soon Leaves. 31/05/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages I'm able to get my phone out of my pocket and say "look! it's Mine!" when an advert comes on the T
Disadvantages Then the battery goes, so I can't tell anyone.

The Queen has two birthdays. One her actual birthday, the other because of a significant date in the year. I like the sound of this philosophy, so I have deemed my phone upgrade day as a second birthday, because you can go out and get something new for sort-of free. I know it's not actually free, because I pay monthly, just like the Queen does for contracts of a different sort, it's just that mine is £35 per month and the Queen's is at least £15000 per year. My most recent celebrations resulted in me coming home with a HTC Desire Smartphone - I was happy with the T-Mobile G1 that had been my ... more
12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful

PureDark

Member since 16/05/2010

Reviews written: 41

Your Phone Sucks Compared to This 22/06/2011

User recommends the product

Advantages An Incredible Phone
Disadvantages Battery Life and Screen Issues on bright days

I will start out by saying that the HTC Desire is the best mobile phone I have ever owned and it saddens me that I'm due an upgrade soon because I know that no other phone will wow me like this phone did last year when I used it for the first time. "Puredark why do you think this phone is so awesome?" Well kids, there are a lot of reasons. Take a seat and I'll tell you why. The Hardware Side Ok I'm not mad for listing every single little detail about the bits you can't see for the most part, wikipedia is there if you want the full break down of height and weight and torque etc. I'll go through ... more
93 of 93 Ciao users found the following review helpful

craggybuk

Member since 15/02/2007

Reviews written: 109

HTC Desire - Better than the iPhone?
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19/04/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages An amazing phone, so easy to use
Disadvantages Battery life is a bit on the short side

About the Desire The HTC Desire is a smartphone, very similar in look and functionality to Apples iPhone. Released in April 2010, the Desire has already attracted a large fanbase at it attempts to dethrone Apple from their perch at the pinnacle of the smartphone market. The Desire runs on the Android operating system which is owned by Google. This means that the phone contains many of Google’s ordinary desktop features such as Google Maps and Google Mail. The Desire Interface The Desire uses what HTC call the HTC Sense interface. This interface is very much a people orientated experience. You ... more
28 of 28 Ciao users found the following review helpful

hi_nicola

HTC Desire 18/09/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Beautiful, easy to use, Android
Disadvantages Battery life

I have owned my HTC Desire for around 6 months now. Getting the phone was quite a big step up for me - I generally just buy whatever happens to be free and I was a bit wary about getting anything with a touch screen. All I knew was that I definitley did NOT want an iPhone, as the majority of my friends have them and I've never managed to get on with them. I took a look at the Desire somewhat reluctantly and gave it a go in one of the shops - and I fell in love with it immediatley. So much so that I paid the full £400 for one being that they were sold out at every single store at that point ... more
7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Doogleman

HTC Desire, the phone to beat Apple? A full review
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26/06/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Almost everything- particularly user interface and features
Disadvantages Battery life is annoyingly short; the iPhone 4 has been released

Product overview The HTC Desire is HTC's latest and greatest to-date smartphone to hit European stores. Running Google's Android operating system, it is essentially a slightly remodeled version of the HTC-made Google Nexus One released around the same time, the main difference being that the Desire uses HTC's personal take on Android- the Sense user interface. I've owned this phone for over two months, so hopefully my first-hand experience can contribute a few need-to-knows to your knowledge of this phone. Also, the Desire is Google Android's best chance yet at being better than the iPhone, so ... more
15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful

xjodieleex

Member since 17/11/2010

Reviews written: 71

HTC Desire - HTC Sense brings weather alive! 15/08/2011

User recommends the product

Advantages HTC Sense, Easy to use.
Disadvantages Poor internal memory.

Who Makes It? The HTC Desire is made by the HTC Corporation; they are a Taiwanese company that manufactures smartphones. Originally their smartphones were based mainly on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS. Then, in 2009 its main focus began to change to devices that used Android instead. The first phone HTC released that used Android was the HTC Dream, marketed as the T-Mobile G1 in many countries. Price and Availability Even now, around a year and a half after it was released the HTC Desire is selling brand new on Amazon for around £300. Unusually for a mobile phone it has held its value well ... more