HTC Desire

First of all, it has been 2 months since I have this phone. My previous phone was Sony Ericsson K700i, and I had it for nearly 6 years. So you can imagine my surprise and excitment when I'm about to buy a brand new smartphone with touch screen and everything.

After heavy, heavy researching I decided to buy a HTC model and have chosen Desire because it's the best solution if you want a budget mobile phone but still with acceptable features. And here is my review:

The case itself is sturdy, it's not one of the lighter phones but it's not heavy either. You get a good grip on it, on the side along with standard 3mm plug for headphones on top and charger plug on bottom.
Buttons: home, menu, joystick, back/undo and search provide easy and fast access. But joystick is mainly for emergancy purposes (in case your screen becomes unfunctional). Of course as standard + - tone buttons on the side.

The screen itself is above average. The colors are vibrant thanks to amoled, it's big enough for typing when u turn to horizontal view. Even the person with biggest fingers can use it without many typos after u get hang of it, if you had a touch phone before this that definatly won't be a problem, at any case it's typing friendly. As many other HTC phones it has Gorilla glass as protection, but I still reccomend using a foil for smoother experience and tiny bit more protection.

Interface is like most other HTC models. Very user friendly with customisable screen pages where you can add widgets, shortcuts or overall apps. Smooth transaction.

Camera is ok (10megapixels) with all the fancy filters (sepia, etc.) but most importantly it's sharp and u got both photo and video.

In my experience so far his processing unit is good enough for the following: music (including radio), video (youtube, play your own movies), internet (browsing and android market, as well as zooming works smoothly). Social networks like facebook and twitter work ok aswell, although navigating trough facebook is simplified, but that depends on the facebook app itself.

However if you try using something more advanced and more power consuming applications like google maps or GPS it will drain your battery fast and may cause system crash.

His internal memory is fair, so limit your essentiall apps (those that say 'phone only') and put everything else to your SD card one by one, if you plan on buying this phone.

Battery is the probably the worst feature of this phone, without any actual phone usage (a few calls and a couple of messages) it can last up to 48h. But if you use it for various stuff like music, internet, video clips, it will drain fast and you will have to charge it daily. Can last about... 5h straight with music, 1h less if more demanding apps.

IN CONCLUSION

If you're looking for a balanced phone, for daily use for calls, messages, music, browsing the internet and social networks, maybe take a few pictures or clips. Them this is a phone for you. But requires daily charging

My wife has this phone since Feb'11. She upgraded (that's right ... upgraded) from an iPhone. We did not see the value of the iPhone 4 at that price, so we looked for something similar but with a more broad apps and games base. At that time (9 months ago) Google did not have a very extensive set of apps & games, but now it has. I am sorry but it is difficult to return to Apple now. In any case, this phone has 1 flaw, when HTC built it, and they did a good job, they put in a very good CPU and GPU but they forgot to put enough memory for you to install more than 1 game at a time. When you boot up, you will have about 180Mb to install apps and games, and even if you use apps 2 sd card, you will notice that most games and apps cannot be moved at this point. Hopefully Android will improve that to 100% of their apps/games. But for now it is improving, but not quickly enough as the developers are struggling to keep up with market demands (maybe growth is too fast). Great phone otherwise, it does everything.

I decided to review this today after arranging for my replacement of the handset, I have had a lot of issues with the handset however decided to give a review based on what I found postive and negative about the phone.

I found the phone to start with a really nice handset it was only once the battery life had become poor and you actually wanted to use the handset for more than just a phone things like the memory became an issue.