*** The Official HTC Desire (Bravo) Thread! ***

I used the Google Maps Navigation Beta yesterday and it worked brilliantly - having not owned a sat nav before it was pretty good and accurate ;) voice is female and indications gave enough warning

Just need a bluetooth headset and docking cradle - so the money not spent on sat nav software goes on these
 
Anyone have any experience using dialaphone.co.uk before? I'm between them and mobiles.co.uk as to who I'll get the phone from at the moment. Possible mobilesdirect.co.uk as well, but they dont appear to have any stock, so i just cancelled my order with them.
 
I used dialaphone to buy my Magic. No problems a part from the insurance company keep trying to ring me up to continue with the insurance once the free period was over. In the end I just cancelled it and they never rang up again.
 
Khaaan! said:
It just makes resale way better in 22-24 months time and I should easily make back the handset price above.
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The handset price isn't £80 any more than the handset price is £0 in other deals. It's paid for by your 24 months of £20-£25 a month - the actual cost to the network of the minutes and texts are pretty negligable. Indeed, if you ONLY wanted minutes and texts you could get 18 months of that for about £50 after Quidco cashback.

So assuming we value the minutes/texts at £50, the 'price' of the handset at £25 a month and £80 down is infact £680.

Which is nothing like the future resale value!
 
Khaaan! said:
Oh yeah the second Vodafone salesperson I spoke to was a young sounding girl who asked what was so special about the Desire and if I wanted a Legend instead.

I facepalmed over the GSM band at that moment.
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What are you doing about your contract? You bought your Magic about 2 weeks before mine IIRC and assume you went for a 18month contract too?

Vodafone refused to let me upgrade early with a fee...
 
Trifid said:
What are you doing about your contract? You bought your Magic about 2 weeks before mine IIRC and assume you went for a 18month contract too?

Vodafone refused to let me upgrade early with a fee...
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I've not read this thread entirely, so apologies if you have already gone this route....

I wasn't officially entitled to an upgrade but followed the advice on the Vodafone forum. Got a text asking me to call the Web Relations team a day or so after, and have managed to order a desire with no 'early upgrade' fee.

Looking forward to getting the Desire, whenever that may be. I was told stock expected early next week, but reading around there's clearly no accurate date.
 
OK guys, have pretty much decided that I'll be getting this via Dialaphone if Vodafone's offer is no good.

As this is my first time upgrading and changing network, I'm not sure how it works.

I'm currently in my last month of the O2 contract. If I ask for my PAC code, do they automatically cancel the O2 contract? How does the final payment work?


Anyone wanna lay out how this works in a step by step including costs?

The first payment of a new contract doesn't come out until a month later, right?
 
skippi90 said:
OK guys, have pretty much decided that I'll be getting this via Dialaphone if Vodafone's offer is no good.

As this is my first time upgrading and changing network, I'm not sure how it works.

I'm currently in my last month of the O2 contract. If I ask for my PAC code, do they automatically cancel the O2 contract? How does the final payment work?


Anyone wanna lay out how this works in a step by step including costs?

The first payment of a new contract doesn't come out until a month later, right?
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I think you give you're PAC to new network, their contract starts when you're number switches over and you're new contract will start, so its best to give them you're PAC/Order new contract lets say 10 days before you're last payment with O2?

I'm proberly very wrong :@
 
Urgh, Mobile Phones Direct are the most incompetant company ever. After returning my phone, and cancelling my contract a week ago, they've sent me a bill :mad:

I'd recommend you guys don't use them unless you like listening to their recorded phone music.
 
Receive PAC. Then when new network transfer over the number, your contract ceases and your new one starts.

Its best to make sure that the number transfer happens after any obligatory contract term. At worst you'll be paying for a few days extra (but you do receive a phone service for those days and so its not really bad at all).

Depending on your payment date, you may pay for the full extra month beyond your contract and then receive a refund the following month. Or they may alter the bill before you actually pay.
 
admoo said:
Urgh, Mobile Phones Direct are the most incompetant company ever. After returning my phone, and cancelling my contract a week ago, they've sent me a bill :mad:

I'd recommend you guys don't use them unless you like listening to their recorded phone music.
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They have done the same thing to me :(
 
HTC/T-Mobile (Not sure which) have just pushed out an over the air update to Version 1.15.110.11

Anyideas whats new?
 
KaylanCloud said:
Thank you very much, its starting to feel like there is nothing the Desire cant do :D
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Try connecting to a wifi spot via a proxy server like at work!

Also you can't search for a contact if you are synched to an exchange mail server without adding them to your contacts list! You can search for the name in the global address list, but to email them you have to first add them to your contact list which then means if you send a text they show up as possible recipients meaning work people are invading your phone book!

I've gone back to my iPhone because of those two points and because for some random reason the SMS message icon now decides to open the Internet instead of the SMS program! No idea why but there's no way to view SMS as it notifies me, I click on the icon and it opens the Internet browser!
 
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