I just can't wait - New Phone

[gshaw]

I'll be joining the Desire club tomorrow

 

Orange sorted my new contract at the weekend, 24 month with 800 mins to any network, unlimited landline calls, 1300 texts and 500MB Internet for £22.50 a month... being on the network for over 10 years does give some negotiating power hehe. Much better than the awful deal they offered me initially with an LG Optimus!

 

Did have the opportunity to upgrade to the Desire HD for £50 but it's too large even for me (who does love a brick phone) and the extra resale value wasn't worth the aggro of selling etc. Originally I wanted the Desire Z but having seen the hinge mechanism I doubt it would last 5 mins with me as my phones over the last few years have had a hard life

 

Not sure how I'll get on without my beloved QWERTY keyboard but gonna have to give it a go...

[gshaw]

Ye I mean going from a hardware keyboard on my Touch Pro to an onscreen one, always been a bit dubious with touchscreen keyboards but we shall see

[DAZZD88]

@gshaw Don't worry about it, I had the same concerns with an onscreen keyboard as with touchscreen phones I generally have a right hassle but the Desire is really good at coping with my dyslexic fingers.

[Paul_L]

I'll be joining the Desire club tomorrow

 

Same here!

[gshaw]

First day spent over on the Anroid side and have to say I'm rather impressed

 

Everything is very fluid and smooth, even warming to the touchscreen keyboard... so far so good! Only thing seems to be the battery life but it seems to charge equally quickly so once my Micro USB cables arrive from eBay it can sit juicing up during the day courtesy of the PC

[LosOjos]

Battery life is definitely an issue with smart phones at the moment (don't forget that the Desire has a 1Ghz processor, that's better than some netbooks so the battery life is quite impressive really!) but don't buy in to the automatic task killer apps: they'll actually use up more battery by sitting there running all the time and cause certain apps not to work properly until you bypass them (the first time it kills your alarm clock and you oversleep for example!). Android actually stops processing apps that are in the background (unless they're busy) anyway so killing them is a waste of time. The other argument is to free up RAM: Android automatically kills inactive apps to free up more RAM if it needs it.