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

vodafone just called, they sent me my pac code the other day as im intending on changing networks, reason being im going to be spending 4 months at my old mans in summer and its a bit of a signal dead spot unless your on O2 or orange.

They have offered me:

18months contract
Free HTC Desire
300mins
unlimited txts
unlimited internet (assume 500mb)

and chucking in for free "vodafone sure signal" for my dads place

for £25 a month

they are calling back in around 20mins while i went and checked out the sure signal thing, think im going to go for it, just wait for the call back now
 
[TW]Fox;16496543 said:
Fiddling with mine. Very steep learning curve after my Nokias.

First thing driving me mad is text messages. How can I just have... an inbox?

Also with my last phone, when I opened the web browser it would connect to 3G, when I closed the web browser it would disconnect. How do I get my Desire to do this?

It's duplicating all my contacts as it's showing SIM contacts and Google Contacts. How can I stop this?

I would like a shortcut for 'New text message'. How can I do this?
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The Desire has conversations per person as opposed to an inbox with seperate messages.

3G - The connection is not actually transferring anything even tho the symbol is there. You can switch off "mobile" which turns off 3G if you want. Easiest way to do this is to add the widget to a home screen.

COntacts - go to people > menu > View > untick either phone or Google and that set will be hidden. Unfortunaetly they will still show up when you hit "PHONE" or choose a contact from the SMS menu....

Shortcut for SMS - you can add a shortcut to the Inbox or, alternatively, you can install Handcent SMS from the app market and set it to press and hold the search button to write a new text.
 
Just thought I got a fantastic deal with orange.

orange btw are now only doing the black version of the desire and are the only people selling it in the UK. (personally I think it looks a lot better)

Anyway, phoned up this morning and they did a straight uprgade for me on my existing tariff of £25 a month which includes 200 minutes and 200 texts (as well as the 5 magic numbers I already got so really unlimited minutes for me), As well as this they said I had free internet at weekends and evenings (news to me) but I wanted the normal internet bundle so she changed it to this.
Plus they knocked £100 off of the phone down to £50
so in total I got:

200 minutes
200 texts
Internet 500mb
18 month contract
Magic numbers
for £25 a month with £50 for the phone.

Pretty happy with that :D
 
they just rang back, and went through it all to confirm, should be arriving at my uni address friday, and apparently its a black one as well.....maybe not just limited to orange?

looking forward to it now :D
 
[TW]Fox;16496543 said:
Fiddling with mine. Very steep learning curve after my Nokias.
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Well I've had nothing but Nokias and came to this from a 6230i and I'm surprised how quickly I've adapted to it.

Second Richie's recommendation of Handcent for SMS handling btw, very nice little app.
 
[TW]Fox;16496543 said:
Also with my last phone, when I opened the web browser it would connect to 3G, when I closed the web browser it would disconnect. How do I get my Desire to do this?
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You don't. This is an 'always-on' phone, push syncing gmail, facebook and twitter and the like all the time. It doesn't use data when its not updating or syncing (you can customise these sync intervals), but will sip the battery (But not as much as 2G data does for some reason, possibly the more advanced data transfer type is more energy efficient) APNdroid from the market will switch off the data completely, making the phone no more useful than your ancient Nokia’s that you seem to love so much :p

As to the others I can't comment, as they're all specific to HTC Sense, and I can't be bothered to re-flash a Sense ROM on my Nexus just to help you, lazy, I know :D
 
Handcent takes some configuring so have a hour or so spare to sit down with it but once you have it it's so much win!

handcent1.jpg
 
Richie said:
The Desire has conversations per person as opposed to an inbox with seperate messages.

3G - The connection is not actually transferring anything even tho the symbol is there. You can switch off "mobile" which turns off 3G if you want. Easiest way to do this is to add the widget to a home screen.

COntacts - go to people > menu > View > untick either phone or Google and that set will be hidden. Unfortunaetly they will still show up when you hit "PHONE" or choose a contact from the SMS menu....

Shortcut for SMS - you can add a shortcut to the Inbox or, alternatively, you can install Handcent SMS from the app market and set it to press and hold the search button to write a new text.
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This, but to add to it as well, Android has threaded conversations, not the Desire exclusively. This is a much more logical way of managing messages from the same person too. In Sense it accumulates the people area with all social interaction with a contact so emails, sms, facebook updates, flickr pages etc all fall into one area for each contact - if you want to of course - otherwise just disable contacts sync for those services.
 
BAcon said:
they just rang back, and went through it all to confirm, should be arriving at my uni address friday, and apparently its a black one as well.....maybe not just limited to orange?

looking forward to it now :D
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Be interested to know if it is as orange have the exclusivity on it and I doubt they would be very happy
 
[TW]Fox;16496543 said:
Fiddling with mine. Very steep learning curve after my Nokias.

First thing driving me mad is text messages. How can I just have... an inbox?

Also with my last phone, when I opened the web browser it would connect to 3G, when I closed the web browser it would disconnect. How do I get my Desire to do this?

It's duplicating all my contacts as it's showing SIM contacts and Google Contacts. How can I stop this?

I would like a shortcut for 'New text message'. How can I do this?
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First off, go to messages and settings on it, then disable notifications of any kind.

Install Handcent sms and let it notify you for messages.

With handcent, you can set it so that pressing the search button for ~1s opens up the quick-send box to send a new message.
It also has quick reply etc and is just generally good.


I just deleted my sim contacts after transferring them to my google account to be saved online.
 
griffo_001 said:
You don't.
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You do - I've found the option. Means I can manually sync when required, far better and no wonder peoples batteries last 20 seconds if they cosntantly have data on.

But oddly it doesn't seem to auto connect when I load the web browser, which is annoying, anyone know why?
 
Anyone know what I have to do to disable 3g connection and only enable 2g? Heard it saves a lot of battery
 
[TW]Fox;16496960 said:
You do - I've found the option. Means I can manually sync when required, far better and no wonder peoples batteries last 20 seconds if they cosntantly have data on.

But oddly it doesn't seem to auto connect when I load the web browser, which is annoying, anyone know why?
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I've proven that data connectivity doesn't eat the battery before, read back a few pages. Data connectivity being always on is nothing new either. These phones need recharging daily after good use because they're powerful phones running 1GHz processors, not because they're syncing basic data every hour.

Plus the battery life is inline with other smartphones of the same class too.
 
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