Desier/One vs iPhone

I've had my desire for a few days now and as much as i really like the os, gui and freedom it offers the media based hardware/software however is shocking. The loudspeaker is terrible (apparantly a possible software issue with sampling, but still it shouldn't be that bad to start off with). Video quality is also poor for a 5mp camera, i've got a 3.2mp camera on my other phone which does a better job at the same vga res as this (wvga isn't much better and obviously the sound quality is poor still). Photo quality is actually quite good albeit washed out and no amount saturation can counter this without looking fake. For a smartphone for social networking and web browsing, etc its great and you wont find anything better in my opinion. Its mainly the audio recording quality and battery that are the biggest gripes for me.
 
I don't understand why people complain about the loudspeaker so much, it's a tiny phone one. Do you lot go round with phone in hand and music blaring out or something?

Stop being chavs and get some headphones! :p
 
Amp34 said:
I don't understand why people complain about the loudspeaker so much, it's a tiny phone one. Do you lot go round with phone in hand and music blaring out or something?

Stop being chavs and get some headphones! :p
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Lol nah :p i do listen to a lot of comedies and audiobooks occassionally though of a night. Would be nice not to use a seperate set of mini speakers for this. Also its great when you can show someone a track on the loudspeaker (something i regularly do down the pub) and have it sound half decent. My old iphone by far surpassed expectations in these areas for a phone, so theres no reason why a smartphone released 10 months later shouldn't equate to the same quality (or even just average quality).
 
my nexus sound is crap. But if i cup my hand over the speaker to bring it "to the front" of the phone, instead of it pumping out the back, it sounds 10x better.

I'll be buying a bluetooth dock though, so no issues : D
 
CSlater said:
How can your network provider tell whether you're tethering anyway? Data is data after all.
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[TW]Fox;16660707 said:
How - the phone itself is requesting the same data, regardless of how its displayed locally?

The same packets are sent and received using, say, IRC regardless of whether its using Android IRC or mIRC on a Laptop?
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Dont really want to get into the technical specifics of it as it can get very complex very quickly, but the crux of it is that most traffic can be traced through every device/router/etc its been through. But it can be a faff.
Theres also other stuff like, as mentioned, the info that a browser inserts into a http request, etc;

Nick1881 said:
My iPhone reports after almost a years usage 1.3Gb of Cellular Network Data received, is this likely to be right?

If so then a 1Gb usage limit on Voda won't bother me.

The more you guys talk about the Desire the more desire I have to get one :p
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I'd say thats about bob on tbh, ive had my iPhone for 18 months now and ive only used 1.4Gb.:)
 
I'm very pleased with my Brodit car mount, fitted perfectly and it's very solid. Got it plugged into the cig lighter though as it's well out the way and looks tidy.
 
Robboftw said:
I'm very pleased with my Brodit car mount, fitted perfectly and it's very solid. Got it plugged into the cig lighter though as it's well out the way and looks tidy.
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Its the cabling more than the mount tbh.
I currently have an Apple dock cable coming up through the dash strait into my iPhone into a generic smartphone mount. I'd need to do something similar if i was to get a Desire. Hmm...
 
BoomAM said:
Well we can but hope.
If the new iPhone isnt absolutely amazing then a Desire will be coming my way i think. :p
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I would think one would be coming your way unless they remove the restrictive nature of the iPhone OS, which I doubt they will.

They will just spin multi-tasking as the best thing since sliced bread and do the usual Apple thing :p
 
Tbh, id probably wait till the Desire starts shipping with Froyo to get one, some of the new froyo features are musts for me.
So I'm hoping it is later this month:-p

What's HTCs support like btw? For example, if my iPhone breaks, I take it to an Apple shop, Job done.
Can I expect the antiquated old methods that'd require me to send it to my operator and wait for it to be fixed?
 
BoomAM said:
What's HTCs support like btw? For example, if my iPhone breaks, I take it to an Apple shop, Job done.
Can I expect the antiquated old methods that'd require me to send it to my operator and wait for it to be fixed?
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Anyone got any ideas on this?
 
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