Taking the plunge! Awwww! - Desire General

Almost got the HD2 - but after reading about the still bad WMo and heard about the 'Bravo' I decided to wait. I have now ordered it from T-Mob (£90 2yrs £10/m).. but already there are new phones coming up!!! Always when you buy the 'latest' phone, next day there is a new much better out! Its kinda annoying!
Some of you guys buy all of them as they come up... I will be stick with it for the next 24months... wondering what the mobile phone world is like then in 2012! Maybe theres a Iphone 5 or something, or maybe Nokia has come back. Anyway... Ive taken the plunge. Hope Desire is as good as they say!

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Going back to my Blackberry!

I MIGHT be going back to my Blackberry! I miss it... The only feature that I'm really going to miss on my TP2 is the Youtube app. I wish Blackberry had an ultimate youtube app.
I know what you guys are thinking. TP2 can do so much more and yeah I know that, but I'm a blackberry fan. The only reason I got the TP2 was to try it and I liked it. It's a great phone and all, but in the back of my head I was thinking about my Blackberry. So once the Blackberry BOLD 9700 drops in Nov. for T-Mobile, I'm there.
If you guys are interested in buying a T-Mobile TP2 around when Nov. starts let me know, I will be selling it for $399 and everything comes with it except my beautiful EASECASE then. If not then I'll put it up on the XDA and craigslist for sale.
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I am thinking of going bk andriod, tmo is droping a moto clique, that is the same as verizons Driod, these have the fastest cpu on any phone, hihest screen reso also, and adriod is just starting to get sick. I only owned BB for the past 8yrs, BB is BB all the same, nothing really changes.
See ya! I have a Blackberry now and I hate it. I only have it as a spare since my Xperia died on me. I'm waiting for UPS to deliver my TP2 tomorrow. I won't miss Blackberry
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I am thinking of going bk andriod, tmo is droping a moto clique, that is the same as verizons Driod, these have the fastest cpu on any phone, hihest screen reso also, and adriod is just starting to get sick. I only owned BB for the past 8yrs, BB is BB all the same, nothing really changes.
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jvs60 said:
See ya! I have a Blackberry now and I hate it. I only have it as a spare since my Xperia died on me. I'm waiting for UPS to deliver my TP2 tomorrow. I won't miss Blackberry
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I was looking at my cousins 8900 which was the one I use to have before the TP2. I have a feeling I will regret it if I go back because the TP2 is so much better. So yeah I will just wait until RIM releases something crazy and NEW...If ever!
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for me the same thing 2 weeks ago,
I bought the BB Bold 9700, I have the TP 2 & Diam 1 & the Nova (Touch) laid off, maybe i come back with the HTC Throphy when WM works better
Maybe I will rise again ...
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HeavyComponent said:
I MIGHT be going back to my Blackberry! I miss it... The only feature that I'm really going to miss on my TP2 is the Youtube app. I wish Blackberry had an ultimate youtube app.
I know what you guys are thinking. TP2 can do so much more and yeah I know that, but I'm a blackberry fan. The only reason I got the TP2 was to try it and I liked it. It's a great phone and all, but in the back of my head I was thinking about my Blackberry. So once the Blackberry BOLD 9700 drops in Nov. for T-Mobile, I'm there.
If you guys are interested in buying a T-Mobile TP2 around when Nov. starts let me know, I will be selling it for $399 and everything comes with it except my beautiful EASECASE then. If not then I'll put it up on the XDA and craigslist for sale.
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Shame to hear your case...
For me it is a great business device which fills all my needs
If you decide to sell ask a Mod to move this post to it´s proper section, so you´ll have more chances to sell your Rhodium.

[Q] New phone

Hello guys,
i 'm new here and i would like to ask you sth..I currently own an iPhone 3GS but after a year of use i got a bit bored , tired mainly with the software..too closed imo..u have to jb so that u can make the most of it and apple just makes things worse patching stuff and other s**t like that..So i found about Desire a week ago and i was thinking of buying it..But because i dont want to spend my money on a mobile which probably will be outdated in a while , would it be wise to hold on to my iPhone and buy an android cell later on in case some new cpu models ship , new android os comes out and stuff like that??
thnx
There will always be a new phone coming out. If you hold out till later today, you will hear of a new phone being developed with awesome specs. I heard of the Desire HD a month after I got mine and I'm sure you will hear of a Desire 2 or whatever coming out early next year just after waiting for and getting an HD.
Know what you want out of a phone and look for a phone that best fits your needs and wants. The Desire does this for me and I look forward to my next purchase next year when my wants and needs change again. The HD will be a purchase for the gf if she's good but its too big for my personal use. I'll get a tablet next year as well (Android of course) and that will fill a different need and want.
Good luck picking a phone
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Anyone else get a little sad when...

...they change their old phone for a new one?
I mean, I've had my galaxy s2 for a year now, and it's been my trusty sidekick, never any problems, complete powerhouse and nothing has really made me want to change in that year until the One X which I will be getting later today.
I just feel that somehow I am betraying my sg2, it is still in pristine condition, has been flashed with different roms multiple times, mods etc... we've been through a lot together - I can feel it looking at me with it's sad super amoled plus eyes.
If the one x provides as half a good an experience as my sg2 has then I'll be a happy man. The sg2 is going to the mrs and I can already see how it'll be getting thrown into her bag with keys and other random objects rather than being safe in my pocket.
Be well old friend
Will feel similar with my HD2, though not at the same level as the SGS2 in terms of hardware, but our bonding is much older (since 2009), been oc'd to 1.5 and have seen Windows, Linux, Mango and got stuck with Android. I'm still quite happy with the first 4.2" multi touch phone and will feel sad to see it converted into just a mobile with songs and games when in the hands of my missus.
Well, I for one will not feel sad at all! That is because I am going from the ageing Desire
It has served me well so far and I am glad I will be staying on the htc bandwagon.
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Well, I for one will not feel sad at all! That is because I am going from the ageing Desire
It has served me well so far and I am glad I will be staying on the htc bandwagon.
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Came in to post almost this exact message. My Desire will be consigned to the phone graveyard of the third draw down in my desk, from which it might occasionally be called back into action, but will mostly be enjoying its retirement
I was really sad when I went from my old SE G502 to Desire...one, because I had never spent that much money on a phone and two, when I pulled it out of the box I thought "What have I got myself into??" But it was step I had to make and got over the initial sadness pretty quickly.
Now...I am saying goodbye to the Desire. Like the OP, it has been my trusty sidekick, I have looked after it like no phone before, rooted, ROM'd, and basically learnt a lot of tech things on this phone. I will still mess with it as Dev continues on that device, but I cannot wait to order a HOX!
I'll be sad, yes, but this is just the next chapter
I'm gonna miss my little Desire S ,never had a prob with it in the past year and it goes like the clappers ;(
No, not really.
I usually pass the old one on to my wife so I still get to give it the occasional tweak. It's not very rewarding though as I have to dress it up to look like an iPhone so she can use it.
I'm currently on a Nokia 6210 Navigator, you can imagine how sad I'll be when my HOX arrives
Wow. I hope one x blows you away otherwise 5+ years is a long time to wait for a new upgrade! For me anyway. lol
probably the wrong place to say this as i know everyone here hates apple, but when i sold my ipad 1 on ebay and had to wrap and ship it, i was sad too!
i had taken it everywhere, and it was in pristine condition, really looked after. used it pretty much every day for hours, and i was one of the first adaptors too (had it bought for me in the US a week or so after launch).
i don't feel that way about my iphone 4 though, its been getting sluggish and the home button is dodgy, and there is nothing special about the phone that i will miss, or that makes it any better or worse than the next phone i get (be it the Note, or the HTC One X, I still havent decided!)
Indeed. It'll be a huge loss to not only myself but my immidiate family when I get a new phone.
I will still pop round to see it at the weekends and sit with it in the garden and pour it some afternoon tea. I'm just glad I still have the memories. I remember ordering a Pizza on the dominos app and.... ohhh... how we enjoying those late night under the duvet while I was knocking one out on the youjizz mobile site.
You never know whats around the corner. Live each day with your mobile phone like its the last, but just remeber all the good times you had together.
As I'm coming from a Legend, I won't be sad at all. Well, thats a lie. It was a great friend for the past two years and no matter how often I dropped it, It's still in a great condition! It will go into my drawer together with my G1 and probaly be forgotten until i go on vacation this summer.
I gave (lent) my Desire HD to my cousin who is trying to develop some android apps and Im using the wifes Desire til the One X arrives (if it arrives, order kept getting cancelled by vodafone system for some reason)
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Indeed. It'll be a huge loss to not only myself but my immidiate family when I get a new phone.
I will still pop round to see it at the weekends and sit with it in the garden and pour it some afternoon tea. I'm just glad I still have the memories. I remember ordering a Pizza on the dominos app and.... ohhh... how we enjoying those late night under the duvet while I was knocking one out on the youjizz mobile site.
You never know whats around the corner. Live each day with your mobile phone like its the last, but just remeber all the good times you had together.
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I am sure you'll get over it pretty fast. Now, ordering pizza from dominos will be quick quick and youjizz HD is gonna blow you away..
mwatson said:
I will still pop round to see it at the weekends and sit with it in the garden and pour it some afternoon tea. I'm just glad I still have the memories. I remember ordering a Pizza on the dominos app and.... ohhh... how we enjoying those late night under the duvet while I was knocking one out on the youjizz mobile site.(
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5* post, I whole heartedly enjoyed this
Yeah, I do miss my phone when I send it off for sale.
However, I usually upgrade to a better phone, so that love usually vanishes almost instantly.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
I'm going to miss my Desire, I've had it for almost two years now. But the shiny newness of the One X will more than compensate.
I'll miss my desire. It has survived countless drops on the ground, the rare times were I don't check the weather and end up cycling half an hour trough the rain w/o a jacket and many screw ups with roms and mods.
But despite that it's still going strong and still would for more than a year.
Also the fact that I've sanded the brown coating of the aluminium down giving it a total new look doesn't help when I'm looking for a new phone.
777ace said:
I was really sad when I went from my old SE G502 to Desire...one, because I had never spent that much money on a phone and two, when I pulled it out of the box I thought "What have I got myself into??" But it was step I had to make and got over the initial sadness pretty quickly.
Now...I am saying goodbye to the Desire. Like the OP, it has been my trusty sidekick, I have looked after it like no phone before, rooted, ROM'd, and basically learnt a lot of tech things on this phone. I will still mess with it as Dev continues on that device, but I cannot wait to order a HOX!
I'll be sad, yes, but this is just the next chapter
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Haha I also bought a G502, it's the only phone I've ever bought without contract, so that was my most expensive phone. My next phone also was the Desire, but I didn't feel sad, I was relieved. And guess what my next phone is: a One X
The One X is not that expensive for my, I got a really great deal. A one year contract with 100 minutes + 3000 sms + 1 GB data and I got the phone for free. I pay 38 euro/month for 1 year. Total costs for 1 year contract: 455 euro. The price for the phone without contract: 550 euro
Yep - I'll be coming from an Evo 4g. It got stepped on a few weeks ago and I'm stumbling to the finish line with an old POS phone (as of yet, that phone is undetermined.) The Evo was my first smart phone or even high end phone for it's time. I loved it. That being said, the one X is just better in every respect (especially if the rumors about Sprint's one X coming with a kickstand are true !)

Buy the HTC ONE X or wait?

Hello everyone, i still didnt buy the X, waited to see the reviews after launch so far so bad.
Do you think its better to wait SGIII or just buy the phone ? Plz details.
Its better if you own the phone to answer the question.
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Up to you. Specs or OS? Sense vs TouchWiz.
Sure the SGS3 may beat the HOX on specs we all know that! But it comes down to user experience and Sense beats TW. Unless TouchWiz 5 will be a complete revamp we don't know!
You can wait but you'll be waiting forever there's always something better around the corner. Choose what's important for you.
Wait!.... err I mean BUY IT!
Really?
Every new phone will have issues, will always be like that, the SG3 will also have issues.
Just buy the One-X or wait for ever on your "perfect" phone
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Every new phone will have issues, will always be like that, the SG3 will also have issues.
Just buy the One-X or wait for ever on your "perfect" phone
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I agree with this...you can sit and wait for the "best" phone, or just jump in and get it done. Who's to say the SGS won't have issues?? That is not to say "Buy the OneX", or "Buy the SGSIII"...it just means, you can sit and debate what will be best until you die and never have a new phone.
For my 2c, if you are asking this question, it means you really just want someone to justify what you already want, so just go out and buy it. I did and I am really happy with it. Sure, there are one or two niggling things, but all phones will have those...seriously, this thing is freaking amazing. If you want it, just do it...if you want the SGS, hang out for a while. Simple.
Getting my OneX after weekend. If in couple of months I will prefer S3 then I will change. if not i will continue with pretty awesome OneX
If you would have aproved specs for S3, then I would say choose w/e you like best.
But since there are only rumors around S3, then it can take forever to get released, by time its released theres soemthing else to come! Its same as w8ing to be 80years old to finally buy a house.
Want upgrade? Found phone you like? GO FOR IT
The One X just happened to be released first after my contract was up - so I got one - if the SGS3 was available earlier I may have got that.
One X is superb and I will not be regretting this decision so unless you just prefer Samsung for some reason get the One X and enjoy it NOW
htc one
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The One X just happened to be released first after my contract was up - so I got one - if the SGS3 was available earlier I may have got that.
One X is superb and I will not be regretting this decision so unless you just prefer Samsung for some reason get the One X and enjoy it NOW
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Dude ....you have your eyes in your back pocket or what ! This is a post from 7-4-2012 !!! :banghead:

They were the best of times.....

Tomorrow I get my new phone delivered.
After 2 and a half years, it's time to say goodbye to my One X.
The first, and only, phone to make me simply say 'wow' when I got it.
For me it was the first Android phone to beat the iPhone in design.
I loved it.
For the last year, my wife had it and she loved it.
I came back to it for the last 2 weeks when I gave my wife the Z2 and I waited for my new G3 and it reminded me of how great a phone it was (is!).
So farewell, you've served me well.
I feel you dude, getting a new phone in January and really excited but going to miss my one x hugely, it will remain as an outstanding back up phone. Never had a phone that I was so happy with that I didn't feel the need top upgrade until something I really wanted came out. The yotaphone calls to me, as do the potential influx of modular smartphones, other than them nothing new in the last couple of years has felt different enough or improved enough to change.
Bravo HTC One Xs everywhere
i put mine to rest last year ,still have it though like to flash new things here and there but moved on to the oppo find 7 and im happy ,the one x was a great design easy to hold, nice screen and pretty good software ,i still have my HTC TTYN windows phone, HTC desire bravo and mysamsung galaxy nexus all working perfect still.
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Tomorrow I get my new phone delivered.
After 2 and a half years, it's time to say goodbye to my One X.
The first, and only, phone to make me simply say 'wow' when I got it.
For me it was the first Android phone to beat the iPhone in design.
I loved it.
For the last year, my wife had it and she loved it.
I came back to it for the last 2 weeks when I gave my wife the Z2 and I waited for my new G3 and it reminded me of how great a phone it was (is!).
So farewell, you've served me well.
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Hey, fellow Welsh dude, what phone you getting now?
I did get the HTC One M7....but camera quality SUCKED bigtime and was exatly same on M8....so came back to One X.
May in future go for M9, dunno.
Matt
matthew33 said:
Hey, fellow Welsh dude, what phone you getting now?
I did get the HTC One M7....but camera quality SUCKED bigtime and was exatly same on M8....so came back to One X.
May in future go for M9, dunno.
Matt
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I went for the LG G3 and am very happy with it.
The G4 is out now and has the best smartphone camera bar none, so worth considering.

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