HTC Desire user reviews

the quiet man 26 November 2010

Good: smooth touch and drag action, big bright screen, great marketplace with loads of good free games/apps.

Bad: short battery life

Comment: Ive had this phone for about 4 months, and its still as exciting to use as when i first bought it. I used to own an iphone 3g but was frustrated with the lack of flexability without getting it jailbroken. The desire has a huge clear screen with great vibrant colours, the android market place is fab, with loads of apps/games( which a lot are free).
there is loads more I could say about this phone, and in my opinion is on par with an iphone with more choices and half the price. I have it on an orange contract and has a fairly good reception, although I still think 02 has the edge on that score.
I would'nt hesitate buying this phone as it RRRRRocks! it would have had 5 stars, but the battery life isnt great, (but im always on the web/apps) lasts me about 1 day.
hope this helps.

lamarr 23 November 2010

Good: Excellent as the review said

Bad: I am not sure yet but no hd camera?

Comment: I saw legend working so well at the shop. It is faster, so good I am tempted to buy this once my shop take my nokia n8 back. Htc support is fantastic. "Customer is always right".
Many friends have told me they gotten email replies for solving on the next day or solved at htc customer service centre. It was mostly to do with syncing and unfamiliarity. I will update once I see what I decided.

Ian Onions 22 November 2010

Good: Speedy browser, camera, fast proccessor,screen, "sense" interface, loud ring, clear calls

Bad: Battery, screen in sunlight

Comment: @ Tony Swales- I think you might have a faulty one, I and thousands of others have a great internet-over-3g experience. Nothing wrong with the proccessor, used in other 'phone designs as well.

wildthornbury 20 November 2010

Good: Fast, easy to use, flexible set up and very cool

Bad: Heavy on battery juice if you don't kill those apps

Comment: I've had this phone on a Virgin Mobile contract for about 4 months now and am very, very, pleased with it. The seven screens, the flexibility of the Android widgets, the smooth HTC Sense apps and the variety of wallpapers and scenes you can work with are just stunning. I've got the calendar talking to Outlook using HTC Sync, and the Mail app is pulling all my Webmail accounts in effortlessly - I'm increasingly using Desire instead of my PC. I've added an 8GB card, and I'm using Desire for music playing instead of my iPod.

It took me a couple of pretty intense days to get the phone to a place I was happy with, but once you've got your apps, screens, scenes, contacts and e-mail accounts set up, it really is a stunning phone to use.

I got my upgrade to Android 2.2 today after a long wait, but (touch wood) everything still works. After I chased therm for an update on the delay, Virgin gave me a really good brief on why it was taking so long and that the release would be out within 2 weeks - they were bang on.

Looking forward to discovering what I can do on FroYo that I couldn't do before.
I really don't have a bad thing to say about the phone, unlike many of my apple-eating colleagues!

Tony Swales 14 November 2010

Good: screen resolution is good and camera

Bad: internet capability

Comment: do not get this phone if you like going on the internet, the one thing this phone doesn't do right. i can go on the internet for just 5 minutes on 3g before the phone will switch off itself and reboot. my network provider say the problem is down to 3rd party apps but when i told them i don't have any third party apps i then get the "ohhh right i don't know what it could be " speech. i know what is wrong with the phone. It is the crap snapdragon CPU, it cannot handle 3g data transfer as this makes the device overheat and is therefore defective, and not fit for purpose.

Liam Castrø-Wílkiñs 8 November 2010

Good: Superfast internet, the looks, Android 2.2 update (I have), HTC Sense, FriendStream widgets, 7 home screens, access to over 100,000 apps with the Android Market, camera, social networking capabilities, iPhone beating (by a country mile), HD video (in Android 2.2 update), how customisable it is and you can instantly upload photos and videos to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr

Bad: Battery when you're using a the phone lots

Comment: To sum up, this is the best phone I've ever had. I had shivers down my spine and couldn't help grinning my face off when I got it because I had been anticipating it for such a long time. Plus news of the Android update in August just made me more exicited. The day I got it the Android update actually flashed up on the screen! I love the integrated social networking widgets, such as FriendStream which syncs with Facebook, Twitter and Flickr and if Facebook and/or Twitter won't work, there are widgets (small or large for Twitter, small only for Facebook) you can place on either of the 7 home screens. This phone deserves 5* without a doubt.

myiannakou 3 November 2010

Comment: Phone fits well in the hands and feels almost unnoticeable in jeans pocket (and mine are quite tight!). Call quality is very good as is signal reception, but the speaker used for hands free and listening to music etc. is absolutely terrible. It sounds really tinny and distorts a lot. Physical buttons at base are very useful. Good camera but lets itself down in low light conditions which produce more grainy pictures. The LED flash is probably as bad as it is on all phones, but when used against light absorbing objects it fairs reasonably well. The video is clear but the sound quality that goes along with it is just ok. The battery life is pretty bad I must say and you will need to charge every evening. However, there are some high capacity batteries that you could purchase. When shooting video or taking a picture whilst holding the phone horizontally it is very easy to get your fingers in the way of shots, as the lens is quite close to the edge of the case, but you will eventually get used to this and accommodate accordingly. It is a very fast and responsive phone and although in my opinion you cannot beat a real hard keyboard, the touch keyboard on this is really very impressive and the auto-correction is very good. It is a tough phone and has survived many drops onto concrete etc. without any damage. There are many apps available and HTC seem to be quite quick to provide software updates for improvements and bug fixes. However, I did find the responses from HTC support to be a little bland and blunt. The software to sync the phone to PC although rather simplistic, does a good job.
Overall a very good phone which could be greatly improved by the addition of a Xenon flash as well as an LED one (no one has done that yet), a dedicated camera shutter button and most importantly a much, much better speaker for hands free and media playback.

soaeb 29 October 2010

Good: speedy, stylish

Bad: restarts/crashes on its own way

Comment: This is the best phone i had ever used and also in future dont wan't to buy HTC mobiles ever, because this is dreamy phone for just 2-3 months since purchased but after that this is my worst nightmare ever....... it crashed/restarts every time i use my GPRS and surf any thing.....
This device has hardware fault from where ever i searched on net...
I m so much disappointed that this is my biggest mistake that i remember CNET review and buy this piece...

Sunjit Singh 28 October 2010

Good: The quality of the product

Bad: The service you get from htc

Comment: Hi I recently updated to froyo v2.2 from pop up I revived on my HTC Desire hand set. Since then my hand set is slower then what it was with v2.1, I have sent a email to htc had no reply I even phoned them and they said they will get in touch with me and that was five days ago. Since then I have found out that the software that was sent to my phone is not compatible with the three network and that my warranty is void even though I did everything by the book. I have sent a email about this, still waiting for a reply customer service is rubbish, they don't want to no if you have a problem. I have all way had Nokia phones and never had this problem with any software download or customer service please avoid htc. There not Worth it.

pickle 4 October 2010

Good: fast, looks superb and it's not an iphone!

Bad: nothing really....other than it could come with a pouch/case and a screen cover

Comment: I had been an owner of the original T-mobile G1 from the start and was due an upgrade, so although the Desire had been out a while now i just had to have one! The user interface is so slick and smooth and i love the multi touch function. People bang on about the battery life being poor, but all smartphones are power hungry when you run loads of apps. i'm well happy with the Desire and unlike the iphone, everyone wants to have a look and play with it. be a little diferent and embrace the Android!! :-)