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

Well I went to CPW and got a swap \m/

The first phone he brought out had way less pink tint compared to mine and looks normal on all brightness levels except the lowest - it's not as neutral as my dad's Orange but it looks normal now compared to before So I am happy with that now! The only time I noticed it was when the brightness was low when the screen was dimmed while docked - not so any more!

It's strange too because their demo handset had the exact same pink tint as my first one did and the guy didn't want to swap it out at first as he was sure it's just the way these phones are (he was partly right, they are pink tinted but should not be as bad as what I was pointing out!).
 
I am very tempted to buy this phone right now, but have a few queries:

1) What resolution do I need to encode videos to to play on the Desire?
2) Has anyone ported their data from the N97 to the HTC?
3) Is the screen alright for texting a lot (I liked the keyboard on the N97)?
4) Does the MicroSD class speed rating make a difference to speed of access?
5) What is the actual battery life like after using the phone for videos and music for 3 hours a day, the occasional voice call and numerous text messages?
6) When I connect it to the PC, does it come up as a Mass Storage Device?
 
dbmzk1 said:
If only T-mobile actually provided a decent signal in more than 1% of the country... :(:p
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I must be in that 1% then hehe

Seriously tho I was concerned at first but T-Mobile has been a lot better than Orange in my area and you get 8 days to send it back if you are not happy with the coverage
 
Danger Phoenix said:
I am very tempted to buy this phone right now, but have a few queries:

1) What resolution do I need to encode videos to to play on the Desire?
I just tested a home video I have, I encoded it to 800 pixels wide in Avidemux, video codec used was MPEG-4 ASP and AAC audio and chose the .mp4 extension.
The video played back on the default video player perfectly fine. The great thing about Avidemux is you can specify the filesize you want and it will maintain the quality to meet that end file size and in this mode it also uses 2 pass encoding. If you need help with this app just let me know but it really is easy.


2) Has anyone ported their data from the N97 to the HTC?
What kind of data? I can't imagine any Nokia specific media and user files being stored on the N97 - all phone videos will play, they're almost always 3gp, mjpeg or mpeg4-asp.

3) Is the screen alright for texting a lot (I liked the keyboard on the N97)?
In Portrait mode it can feel a bit awkward for people with larger fingers but in landscape it is very nice. You should however, be using Swype instead!

4) Does the MicroSD class speed rating make a difference to speed of access?
It really varies, on a phone that isn't using a linux swap partition and isn't storing apps to SD (for now!) then it won't make a huge difference but in apps that are reading data off the SD card in real time it can. Satnav mapping comes to mind although my Navigon is perfectly smooth.

5) What is the actual battery life like after using the phone for videos and music for 3 hours a day, the occasional voice call and numerous text messages?
With mild usage once the battery is trained in you should get around a day with WiFi and HSPA/3G enabled. Some will vary depending on what background apps are running as well and their choice of screen brightness and media being played.

6) When I connect it to the PC, does it come up as a Mass Storage Device?
Yes you drop down the status bar and choose what you want.
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Zaf said:
I must be in that 1% then hehe

Seriously tho I was concerned at first but T-Mobile has been a lot better than Orange in my area and you get 8 days to send it back if you are not happy with the coverage
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I wish it were like that for me, i get a moderate signal at home, a poor signal at work, but if i walk 100m down the road to the t-mobile store i get a perfect 3G/H signal. Even called em up and said im getting a poor signal, they said are you outside etc. I said yeah im on a hill with nothing around me, no buildings or tree's. They just fobbed me off saying must be a problem with the mast. Yet it works perfectly fine if i go down the hill 100m.
 
So regarding the pink issue, whats going?

I have it around 20%

Now the HTC site banner seems pink and on the google mail app has a white back round, but the small ticks are pink.

But that seems normal on all phones?

I checked the background on the contacts page and it was pure white.

If there is a problem is the whole screen pink?
 
teaboy5 said:
So regarding the pink issue, whats going?

I have it around 20%

Now the HTC site banner seems pink and on the google mail app has a white back round, but the small ticks are pink.

But that seems normal on all phones?

I checked the background on the contacts page and it was pure white.

If there is a problem is the whole screen pink?
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It affects Desires AND AT&T Nexi, and is a hardware issue.

The best way to check is to compare it to another Desire, but this isn't always practical, so

The easiest way to check however is to boot up a series of web pages and compare it to their computer LCD counterparts

The whole screen will be tinted pink, but it will show up more clearly in some conditions
 
It's on certain shades of gray only, not web safe colours or something - a whole tech article written on it on XDA.

My pink issue was a dimmed display issue where a low brightness showed a pink tint on the whole screen - that isn't normal but pink around the grey buttons and the HTC site + others however is normal.

IIRC Google are fixing image quality issues.
 
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