Iphone, Desire HD or Galaxy

Tetsujin · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:28

Skyfall said:
{General DHD praise}

The DHD does really feel nice and the screen is great the only real criticism I would give is to the speaker, it's a little on the quiet side, it doesn't really cause me problems but I'm often thinking it should be a little louder.

What he said. On the speaker front, when he says "little" it should be in italics to emphasise that it really only is slightly too quiet. You'll be aware of it but it'll hardly ever be an issue, unless you have loads of chums with penchant for whispering.

toxic · 13 Jan 2011 at 08:42

Cheers guys.
Anyone know where the DHD is selling chepaest. I can only find sim free for £450

DELETED_83755 · 13 Jan 2011 at 08:55

I would also like to know this. I would also like to know the price plans you guys have on contract as I'm of purchasing one!

Russinating · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:18

I've got a DHD with T-Mobile. Bought in November direct and got this: 600 mins, 500 texts, flexible booster, 3GB data and free phone for £30 month/24 months.

Tetsujin · 13 Jan 2011 at 18:02

Orange, upgrade, free phone, £35/month, 24 months, 600 mins, unlimited texts, 750Mb internets. Not the best but it was an in-contract upgrade so I didn't have many options, and was impatient. See this as a worst case scenario, I guess

P.S. Was via CPW to avoid Orange's bloatware and networklock.

toxic · 15 Jan 2011 at 13:59

Well...was walking through Heathrow duty free about 1 hr ago and bought a DHD. Hope its good!

Dying to fiddle with it....but are you not meant to fully charge first to get best out of battery?

manveruppd · 15 Jan 2011 at 15:07

What did it cost you, out of curiosity? Always been disappointed with duty free prices at airports, they usually can't even beat online prices!

MikeHunt79 · 15 Jan 2011 at 15:10

toxic said:
Well...was walking through Heathrow duty free about 1 hr ago and bought a DHD. Hope its good!

Dying to fiddle with it....but are you not meant to fully charge first to get best out of battery?

Yep, leave it charging for as long as possible if you can.

Robbo · 15 Jan 2011 at 18:27

MikeHunt79 said:
Yep, leave it charging for as long as possible if you can.

Doing this will not benefit the battery immediately as far as I know, so if he wants to fiddle with it, he can.

Just charge it when it drops to 1-5%, it should have a half charge already.

MikeHunt79 · 15 Jan 2011 at 20:18

Robboftw said:
Doing this will not benefit the battery immediately as far as I know

Well it won't significantly damage the battery, but the battery voltage monitoring circuit may get a little confused if you don't let it charge fully the first time you charge it, so your battery meter on the phone may act a little crazy as it doesn't yet know what the full capacity of the battery is... There is a reason why is says to let it charge fully in the instructions...

Robboftw said:
, so if he wants to fiddle with it, he can.

Just charge it when it drops to 1-5%, it should have a half charge already.

With Li-ion batteries it's best not to let them go below 40% charge if you want it to keep its capacity longer than a year or two, so I'd advise against letting the charge drop to 1-5%.

If it were my phone I'd just stick it on charge, then let the fiddling commence while it's charging!

Tetsujin · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:04

MikeHunt79 said:
If it were my phone I'd just stick it on charge, then let the fiddling commence while it's charging!

This is what I did. Hasn't seemed to make the battery any worse than other people've experienced (notwithstanding my current 10%/hour drainage problem which is probably app related, but I cba to figure it out atm)