Review: HTC Desire 2 Weeks On

Here’s a review written by spritey of HUKD of his experience with the HTC Desire after using it for 2 full weeks:

A hugely important part of any phone – and while all the bells and whistles are exciting at the beginning.. It’s really how it performs over time.

Well i can tell you know – it’s been fantastic..

It’s never crashed, never slowed down.. It does the exact same job as when i got it 2 weeks ago..

The keyboard is still unbelievable, with the scarily intuitive corrective text being nothing short of a godsend. Lets face it, we all hit the wrong buttons half the time on a touch screen phone.. This almost eliminates that problem.

The general User Interface has just been a pleasure to use, with everything feeling like it’s in the right place.

The thing i’ve also noticed, every friend i’ve shown it to just knows how to use it.. I guess it’s built off the same elements as an iPhone.. You have a similar structure – yet everything goes just that little bit further to create a more substantial experience.. Such as facebook and Email integration into contacts etc.. It just goes that extra mile.

Web Browsing – by far the best phone to do it on..

With the AMOLED screen quality, resolution and general stability / speed of the Android Browser. It’s unbeatable. Text reflow is the stand out – and while they’ve had it since the HTC Touch Diamond.. The other elements hadn’t come upto scratch.. I could not go back to a mobile browser without text reflow, it’s just such a huge benefit. (Text reflow is when you zoom it, the text displays adjusts to fit your screen.. So you are not panning from right to left all day to read an article etc).

App Store – i’ve mentioned it before on here.. When you buy an app, you can simply refund it within 24 hours if you don’t like it.. If you decide to buy it again, you are unable to refund it.. Why on earth are Apple not doing this.. It protects developers by only allowing one refund – and allows me.. The consumer.. To try out all the paid outs i like, without the fear of wasting my money..

I see other phones goimg up going sale on forums, people wanting to trade their 16GB/32GB iPhone 3GS for a HTC Desire.. This is the first time i’ve never been tempted to offer my phone in trade in order to go back to an iPhone, it really has hooked me in that much..

Even if the iPhone match’s this in terms of hardware in the next revision – i think anyone would be insane not to buy the HTC Desire.. From a price point alone, it’s such an obvious choice.

Tomorrow Apple are doing their regular iPhone software conference – showing off 4.0.

This is going to give everyone a pretty clear indication on what to expect from the next iPhone – will that extended functionality be part of the next iteration.. Apple isn’t known for making gigantic leaps with their product line, it only ever happens on occasion. But it’s going to be interesting to see thats for sure .

Cheers spritey for the permission to post this review