Desire v Desire HD - what's the difference?
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I have a DHD and have access to a Desire, the bigger screen makes a massive difference, i prefer it, great for playing games and browsing!
As said above the camera is better and it has HTC Sense and a few other tweaks.
It's also easy to root and flash custom ROMs if you're interested in that sort of thing.
As said above the camera is better and it has HTC Sense and a few other tweaks.
It's also easy to root and flash custom ROMs if you're interested in that sort of thing.
Desire HD is epic, Desire not so much.
In terms that matter:
Multitouch that actually works, the multitouch on the desire is 2 point and only really works for pinching and a few other things, can't play games like NOVA on it, Desire HD is 4 points of full multitouch.
Desire has ~130mb for apps, Desire HD has 1GB.
GPU is basically twice as powerful in the HD as it is in the Desire.
More RAM in the Desire HD.
Faster overall file performance in the Desire HD.
Higher MP camera but TBH it's not any better than the Desire's physically but the phone's camera software is extremely good on the HD pretty pants on the Desire.
HD has DLNA.
In terms that matter:
Multitouch that actually works, the multitouch on the desire is 2 point and only really works for pinching and a few other things, can't play games like NOVA on it, Desire HD is 4 points of full multitouch.
Desire has ~130mb for apps, Desire HD has 1GB.
GPU is basically twice as powerful in the HD as it is in the Desire.
More RAM in the Desire HD.
Faster overall file performance in the Desire HD.
Higher MP camera but TBH it's not any better than the Desire's physically but the phone's camera software is extremely good on the HD pretty pants on the Desire.
HD has DLNA.
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The Desire is perfectly good and also epic. The HD is simply marginally better in most ways and therefore probably a more sensible choice if buying new, but it is not fundamentally any different to the Desire.
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Agreed, played with my work colleagues DesireHD on Wednesday which was the first real extensive play with the phone.
It was extremely laggy compared to my Desire and he's been having awful battery performance issues. 5 hours since unplugged and 60% of his battery had gone.
He had auto sync turned off, mobile data turned off but WiFi on. I appreciate this battery usage isn't normal for this phone, but nothing appeared to be draining his battery when looking at the info panel (dialing *#*#4636#*#*).
The ROM on the DesireHD is also extremely bloated with software that adds nothing to the end user, but adds a lot of commercial income into HTC's back pocket I bet.
For example, Route66 navigation that requires you to buy a license for full features even though the new Google Maps 5.0 is a brilliant piece of software for navigation.
Yes, the hardware is better but the Desire certainly isn't a slouch and the new Sense software on the DesireHD is a step backwards. The on line stuff doesn't work that well from what people have been saying, char limits on sending texts on line.
As for HTC Likes? Duplication of Android Market much?
Like I said, it was definitely laggy and it's no surprise seeing how HTC have bloated out Sense. I'm a massive fan of HTC, but if Sense keeps going closer to being a resource hungry UI, like Motoblur. I'll be buying a different phone when I feel it's time to upgrade.
idk, my post above explains most of the benefits but I wouldn't say the extra memory and GPU power were marginal. Desire is an average device, HD is top of the range.
In reply to the above post, my HD isn't laggy in the slightest, certainly faster than any desire I've used. Also those bloated bits of software you're talking about weren't put on by HTC, my phone doesn't have route 66 or nearly anything else. And even if sense was bloated idk why that would make you choose another phone anyway, you can always change the launcher.
In reply to the above post, my HD isn't laggy in the slightest, certainly faster than any desire I've used. Also those bloated bits of software you're talking about weren't put on by HTC, my phone doesn't have route 66 or nearly anything else. And even if sense was bloated idk why that would make you choose another phone anyway, you can always change the launcher.
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Yes they were put on by HTC, the WWE unbranded ROMs include trialware applications such as Soundhound, where you get 5 tags per month unless you pay for the pro application.
Well I'm not sure if it was Route66, obviously I've not bought the license, but right from HTC's Website:
I.e. their locations application is powered by someone else, hence the need to buy a license. So why have it? Android already has a locations application built in which shares your location to other applications like Maps, Weather, location based services like Yell application and the web browser.
I also found the touch sensitive buttons very unresponsive compared to hardware buttons.
The Desire is not an average device at all. It was when launched arguably the best Smartphone on the market - whilst the HD now has a better claim to that crown it doesnt suddenly make the Desire, a phone thats barely 8 months old since release, 'average' overnight.
I am waiting for a phone worth buying to be released. I am on PAYG and frankly fed up of it. If the HD really did make the Desire look average, then I'd have a HD - it's that simple.
I had to look twice when I read people posting that the Desire was average and not high end.
Lol.
It might have less internal storage than the DesireHD but it's certainly nowhere near average, it's still far more capable than other Android 2.1+ handsets out there.
Lol.
It might have less internal storage than the DesireHD but it's certainly nowhere near average, it's still far more capable than other Android 2.1+ handsets out there.
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On a side note...
I really like where HTC are taking the Desire range. All high end devices catering for slightly different needs (standard slate, large screen, qwerty) using the same design philosophy/user experience.
Shame other manufactures aren't as clear with product lines/names. (Motos Droid range gets close, but that's US only...)
I really like where HTC are taking the Desire range. All high end devices catering for slightly different needs (standard slate, large screen, qwerty) using the same design philosophy/user experience.
Shame other manufactures aren't as clear with product lines/names. (Motos Droid range gets close, but that's US only...)
Homeboy's phone is broken to hell and he should return it. If he's lost 60% in 5 hours of it being mostly idle, that's madness. On average idle* wifi-on I'm losing 1.5%/hour, with 3g-on currently just over 3%/hour. Both of these with nearly a dozen apps sent to sync as frequently as they'll allow (such as 5 mins on twitter).
For him to be losing 12%/hour on wifi alone, it's faulty.
*idle meaning phone sat there but me physically picking it up to check for emails every 45 mins or so (i don't have them set to make a noise upon arrival) and picking it up to deal with sms and @mentions, and other minor stuff.
P.S. My apologies OP for not having anything on topic to weigh in with. Just wanted to point out that the battery usage described isn't normal. DHD is my first android device so can't compare it to a Desire.
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Like I said, I know this isn't normal
I'll get an application for him that can list all the applications installed to his /data partition (user applications) and I'll post them here.
He's using APNDroid (or something like that) which basically renames the APN settings to disable mobile internet. Could this be causing it?
He was recommended that application by someone else, where as he could just long press the power button and turn off the mobile internet chip.
Skyfall - Is all the RAM even used under android. My desire has 576MB and all froyo ever sees is 415MB of it. And the power from the newer processor is negligible, the gpu performance is boosted I agree however i havent come across any apps that I have found the desires gpu lacking. The only advantages I see are a bigger screen, bigger Rom and better gpu.
Id bet if you put both side by side and did similar everyday tasks there would be next to no difference in performance.
Id bet if you put both side by side and did similar everyday tasks there would be next to no difference in performance.
^ Yes it does.
e.g, After a long web browsing/flash session on my Desire, senseUI reboots when the home button is hit. Android completely drops it to cope with the large browser/flash memory requirements.
More memory = better everything!
SenseUI has a 'toggle switch' widget to turn off all mobile data (widgets>settings>mobile network, unless they changed it for the new sense build?)
e.g, After a long web browsing/flash session on my Desire, senseUI reboots when the home button is hit. Android completely drops it to cope with the large browser/flash memory requirements.
More memory = better everything!
SenseUI has a 'toggle switch' widget to turn off all mobile data (widgets>settings>mobile network, unless they changed it for the new sense build?)
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Seems to be a bit crazy to be slating a phone which obviously isn't working properly, my DHD isn't laggy in the slightest, the touch sensitive buttons work flawlessly and are easily as responsive as physical buttons maybe even more so, and until Google Maps updated to version 5 the HTC locations app was superior.
If the only downside of the new sense is that they added a few apps that you don't like well then it's not a huge downside.