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

[TW]Fox;16437180 said:
Anyone had a callback from these Vodafoneukdeals bunch yet? I contacted them and got a reference number last Wednesday but I've still not heard anything bar an email last week saying I was on the HTC Desire callback list - before they announced the deals had expired.

If they are not going to bother phoning or are just going to offer crap deals then this is holding up me exploring other options for getting a Desire.
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I ordered the Orange Dialaphone deal yesterday with the intention of cancelling if Vodafone offer a similar or better deal before it arrives on Thursday. Seemed a sensible thing to do.
 
Someone fill me in here, as I understand it the desire has a 1ghz processor, the iphone has a 600mhz processor, why does everything on the iphone appear so much smoother? More specifically scrolling/animations/gaming etc? Is it down to the Sense UI/Android?

And while I'm on the subject, what's up with android games? Why are they all so utterly crap in comparison to the iphone? Is it just a case of being new technology that programmers haven't got to grips with yet?
 
Spawn said:
A 5 second google search brought up quite a few links;)

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=1....=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=e6d627251be1df84

Go to that address via your Desire and download the file and then use Astro to open and install it.

Works perfectly fine on my Desire.
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Ah cheers I had done:

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with the omitted ones also being mentioned in the thread. Didn't know having the .apk part messed up the search.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Their website mods don't know anything anyway. I'd expect them to say they have stock when I've already received it. Has anyone called them recently?
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I did on Saturday, still no luck with stock, one girl told me that I could expect to wait several more weeks.

Fail.

So I got it from CPW instead.

Cuchulain said:
Someone fill me in here, as I understand it the desire has a 1ghz processor, the iphone has a 600mhz processor, why does everything on the iphone appear so much smoother? More specifically scrolling/animations/gaming etc? Is it down to the Sense UI/Android?

And while I'm on the subject, what's up with android games? Why are they all so utterly crap in comparison to the iphone? Is it just a case of being new technology that programmers haven't got to grips with yet?
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The desire really isn't slow at all but Android is still very new and has several versions on various handsets out right now.

Froyo (Android 2.2) is said to improve performance of Android in orders of huge magnitudes (up to 250% is what's been said). Even still, The Nexus One and Desire are higher spec handsets than the iPhone but you must remember iPhone OS only has to tailor itself to one handset, one spec and it only has to do that single task very well - which is does.

Android has to keep in mind all the different specs out there on different handsets.

Game developers will make games on popular platforms. We won't see high end games until the updated OpenGL runtimes are out (FroYo) and even still Android will need to get a bigger share which is always growing the more people that see these handsets in action.

It's no different to PC Game developers jumping ship to cater to console gamers because that's where the money is because console gamers are chumps but that's another story :p
 
Cuchulain said:
Someone fill me in here, as I understand it the desire has a 1ghz processor, the iphone has a 600mhz processor, why does everything on the iphone appear so much smoother? More specifically scrolling/animations/gaming etc? Is it down to the Sense UI/Android?

And while I'm on the subject, what's up with android games? Why are they all so utterly crap in comparison to the iphone? Is it just a case of being new technology that programmers haven't got to grips with yet?
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As far as apps go... basically Android doesn't have the same level of support as the Apple app store, and the support that is there is much more recent (less experienced with the platform - think of how the first generation of console games can be underwhelming). Six months ago the Android market was about 4 times smaller than it is now.

The signs are that Android market is growing fast (apparently at 50,000 apps now) and corporate support is starting to appear, but the fact is that the Apple app store is the market leader in both size and support.

It is too early to say whether the mature Android market is going to be as good or whether the Apple store will have moved the goalposts by the market matures (Apple will be trying, they are trying to open the tablet market after all).
 
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what would cause some of my mp3 albums not to play in the music player? (unable to play this type of audio file)

the files are fine as i can connect the phone to a pc and play them in windows media player directly from the SD card.
 
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Khaaan! said:
I did on Saturday, still no luck with stock, one girl told me that I could expect to wait several more weeks.

Fail.

So I got it from CPW instead.



The desire really isn't slow at all but Android is still very new and has several versions on various handsets out right now.

Froyo (Android 2.2) is said to improve performance of Android in orders of huge magnitudes (up to 250% is what's been said). Even still, The Nexus One and Desire are higher spec handsets than the iPhone but you must remember iPhone OS only has to tailor itself to one handset, one spec and it only has to do that single task very well - which is does.

Android has to keep in mind all the different specs out there on different handsets.

Game developers will make games on popular platforms. We won't see high end games until the updated OpenGL runtimes are out (FroYo) and even still Android will need to get a bigger share which is always growing the more people that see these handsets in action.

It's no different to PC Game developers jumping ship to cater to console gamers because that's where the money is because console gamers are chumps but that's another story :p
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Froyo sounds like the ticket, hopefully HTC will roll it out with Sense soon after release.
 
Still no sign of O2 pricing even though it's supposed to be out this week? shocking..
 
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