Thursday, February 10, 2011

HTC Desire First Impressions

Finally i have settled with HTC Desire after contemplating between this and iPhone 4 for some time and few friends stated to go for Android than iOS. Thanks to them. So i just bought this Chinese New Year, there was a bit of promo from Starhub for many phones including HTC Desire and i happily settled with one.. Here are my first impressions after using for about a week..
Pro's
  • Quick and very easy setup.. Just provide the Google account everything is taken care. Mails, Calendars ( I haven't explored tasks yet) and it even syncs your Facebook account including the events there.. So you can see everything at one place in your calendar. FB contacts will sync with your phone contacts.
  • Seamless connection between Wi-Fi and 3G. Picks up automatically based on your location.
  • Email client is cool, and at the moment am using only Gmail . Search also works pretty good highlighting the word that you searched for and also saves the word for next time search.
  • Browsing is breeze and the screen reacts sharply to pinches etc for expand and collapse very well. 
  • Big screen means a lot when you want to read while commuting in MRT
  • Android market place app is way too cool when compared to Ovi store. Now i remember someone mentioned Ovi store is a joke.. Ok, am not bashing Nokia though b'cos i still love my E71.
  • 5MP camera is good and have taken nice shots in day light.. Not tested in night times.
  • Overall phone looks are great when it is in hands. 

Con's
  • Not many but one noticeable thing is the battery,, drains like rain water , very fast even though i don't seem to run any background tasks
  • Am not sure how Android works though, when i have finished using an application, does it still run in the background and so taking lot of battery life etc? 

Overall it's very good and at this moment, i don't i regret not using iPhone b'cos in this part of the world almost everyone carries that.. Is there any specific thing which iPhone does very well when compared to HTC Desire? May be iPhone fans will know :)

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