Today, I've just received a new mobile phone - a HTC Desire HD - & boy ! what HAVE I been missing....
First - A bit of Mobile History...
... I had a Nokia 5800 'Comes With music' (Got it free 'cos I won it in a Coca-Cola competition a couple of years back) & got fed up with it being sooooo slow in opening Apps, annoying 'multikey pressing' - JUST to play some music & basically got totally p*ssed off with synching problems with OVI.
(for those that don't know just to play Music, you need to do 'Menu' > 'Music' > 'Music player' > 'All Songs' > 'Options' > 'Goto now Playing' > 'Play' The you get to listen to some Music)
Along with the so called 'Free' Apps from the store that were only free IF you had Ads showing (which costs me money as I'm on PAYG)
So when I heard Nokia went into partnership with Microsoft - Well, that was the straw that broke the camels back (I just CAN'T image nokia phones running Windows mobiles OS) & I went & decided on a change
After a lot of looking around @ the different Android phones (there's no way I'll get an Iphone) - the Desire HD fitted 90% of what I wanted, which was basically a phone with similar features as the 5800 - but better (ie 'Better' camera, 'better' memory etc)
Apart from the 'Have to pay for HTC Navigation Licence' cost (although ~£30 for a Lifecycle licences doesn't seem to bad - if by 'lifecycle' they mean as long as I own the phone) & the possibility of a 'short battery life' (which isn't much of a problem as my phones always get a 'topup' when I'm in the car) - I think I haven't done to bad....
Especially when I also managed to get it ~£320 (Carphonewarehouse was/is selling same phone as a PAYG for £449.95 + £10 SIM )
Now onto the phone - it's speedy on scrolling, Pictures seem sharper than the ones I took on the Nokia, Free Apps a-plenty (Just trying to choose WHICH apps to try out is gonna be a problem) - although there are some that still have 'Ads' in them, it seems IF I 'turn off' the APN/3G the Ads disappear but you can still play the game, so a 'APN toggle' is one App I've already installed
Still some 'setting up' to do (Emails etc) - but I think I've made a good choice IMHO...
... The only downside I've found so far - I totally HATE the 'HTC Sync' tool.
I want my 'Movies'/'Music'/'Pictures' & docs stored on the memory card on the root in the folders 'movie'/'music' etc - BUT on the PC I have them stored in folders like 'D :\HTC Sync\Movies' or
D :\HTC Sync\Music' etc - but the Sync tool stores them as folders-inside-folders-inside folders like
Why ?!?!?
Still got a lot to learn about it - I've only just figured out how to 'uninstall' Apps - but still it seems to have a easier 'learning curve' than when I used the 5800 (I haven't once even LOOKED at the manual or searched online for any guide for this phone, unlike what I had to do with the Nokia)
First - A bit of Mobile History...
... I had a Nokia 5800 'Comes With music' (Got it free 'cos I won it in a Coca-Cola competition a couple of years back) & got fed up with it being sooooo slow in opening Apps, annoying 'multikey pressing' - JUST to play some music & basically got totally p*ssed off with synching problems with OVI.
(for those that don't know just to play Music, you need to do 'Menu' > 'Music' > 'Music player' > 'All Songs' > 'Options' > 'Goto now Playing' > 'Play' The you get to listen to some Music)
Along with the so called 'Free' Apps from the store that were only free IF you had Ads showing (which costs me money as I'm on PAYG)
So when I heard Nokia went into partnership with Microsoft - Well, that was the straw that broke the camels back (I just CAN'T image nokia phones running Windows mobiles OS) & I went & decided on a change
After a lot of looking around @ the different Android phones (there's no way I'll get an Iphone) - the Desire HD fitted 90% of what I wanted, which was basically a phone with similar features as the 5800 - but better (ie 'Better' camera, 'better' memory etc)
Apart from the 'Have to pay for HTC Navigation Licence' cost (although ~£30 for a Lifecycle licences doesn't seem to bad - if by 'lifecycle' they mean as long as I own the phone) & the possibility of a 'short battery life' (which isn't much of a problem as my phones always get a 'topup' when I'm in the car) - I think I haven't done to bad....
Especially when I also managed to get it ~£320 (Carphonewarehouse was/is selling same phone as a PAYG for £449.95 + £10 SIM )
Now onto the phone - it's speedy on scrolling, Pictures seem sharper than the ones I took on the Nokia, Free Apps a-plenty (Just trying to choose WHICH apps to try out is gonna be a problem) - although there are some that still have 'Ads' in them, it seems IF I 'turn off' the APN/3G the Ads disappear but you can still play the game, so a 'APN toggle' is one App I've already installed
Still some 'setting up' to do (Emails etc) - but I think I've made a good choice IMHO...
... The only downside I've found so far - I totally HATE the 'HTC Sync' tool.
I want my 'Movies'/'Music'/'Pictures' & docs stored on the memory card on the root in the folders 'movie'/'music' etc - BUT on the PC I have them stored in folders like 'D :\HTC Sync\Movies' or
D :\HTC Sync\Music' etc - but the Sync tool stores them as folders-inside-folders-inside folders like
Code:
Movies
!
!-D
! !
! !-HTC Sync
! ! !
! ! !- Documents
Music
!
!-D
!
!-HTC Sync
! !
! !- Music
Still got a lot to learn about it - I've only just figured out how to 'uninstall' Apps - but still it seems to have a easier 'learning curve' than when I used the 5800 (I haven't once even LOOKED at the manual or searched online for any guide for this phone, unlike what I had to do with the Nokia)