Goodbye iphone, Hello HTC Desire HD!

[Ooie]

So after spending a weekend in Melbourne my old iphone 3G finally gave up the ghost the other week. Wouldnt open any apps, didnt ring, couldnt send messages etc etc.. Tried to restore it but itunes kept telling me there was an unrecoverable error with the phone and to contact Apple Support... pfft.. not going to happen!

I am very much over the whole apple ecosystem that they have created and so decided to get an Android phone. Ended up getting a HTC Desire HD.. all I can say is WOW!

So much better than the iphone, so much more you can do with it, not to mention the massive range of apps that are available that you would have no chance of getting on an iphone. Oh and the customisation side of it is awesome!

The only downside is that battery life is much less than the apple, but that is easily solved by the fact that you can change the battery in them with ease (you can get them on ebay for $3.95 each).

So my question to all those who are now using Android devices, what are your picks of the best apps/customization available?

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[Ice]

jeesh best apps.....how long is a piece of string ?!

here is goes and is only some of them !

-Sound hound....like shazam, only free unlimited tags and works everytime.
-music box...download any song you can think of for free
-photo bucket
-google earth, like on a pc, will look great on the desire
-astro file manager, can stop and run processes
-Titanium backup, works only if you have rooted your phone but then you can get rid of whatever you want, even the bloatware that comes with your phone.
-where's my droid. brilliant, if you lose your phone and its on silent, text your self and it will turn up the cvoloume or gps and give you its location and keep ringing, etc etc
-tune in radio.....get any radio station from anywhere in the world
-scanner radio....yes tune in to any cb radio police, truckies etc
-of course there is angry birds and i paid for a game called pool break.
-also in goole maps it now has its own gps navigation system so bye bye tomtom

[Nurb608]

Pete's already listed some good ones, especially astro file manager.

Some others would be
-AroundMe
-Aussie weather radar
-Tapatalk
-Facebook

There are just way to many to list.

[hazrd]

jeesh best apps.....how long is a piece of string ?!

about this yellow



thinking about the desire.. but ill hold off for another couple of months yet.....

[btm]

The only downside is that battery life is much less than the apple

how is that even possible...???

[Ooie]

how is that even possible...???

I would say that it has a lot to do with the massive 4.3" display.
I also note that it takes much longer to charge up than the iphone.. A full charge from empty would take 1.5+ hours while the iphone used to be fully charged within 45 mins max.

I have found that by changing a few settings (ie turning off wifi, bluetooth and auto-sync while out and about) and not running widgets and live backgrounds makes a big difference to my battery life too. I can normally get a whole days charge this way.

For me I am really not that fussed. I have a charger in my car, on my desk at work (cradle) and one at home so 90% of the time I am not far away from somewhere to charge it up.

[Nurb608]

I would say that it has a lot to do with the massive 4.3" display.
I also note that it takes much longer to charge up than the iphone.. A full charge from empty would take 1.5+ hours while the iphone used to be fully charged within 45 mins max.

I have found that by changing a few settings (ie turning off wifi, bluetooth and auto-sync while out and about) and not running widgets and live backgrounds makes a big difference to my battery life too. I can normally get a whole days charge this way.

For me I am really not that fussed. I have a charger in my car, on my desk at work (cradle) and one at home so 90% of the time I am not far away from somewhere to charge it up.

You can go into the settings and into "about phone" and it will show you where all the battery power is being used. My wifi is 43% usage of the battery

[Ice]

about this yellow



thinking about the desire.. but ill hold off for another couple of months yet.....

go on have your say !

[Ice]

Pete's already listed some good ones, especially astro file manager.

Some others would be
-AroundMe
-Aussie weather radar
-Tapatalk
-Facebook

There are just way to many to list.

oh nice one Rors, i was going to say i just shortcut the bom website but hey, this is using the bom, lol

[Nurb608]

oh nice one Rors, i was going to say i just shortcut the bom website but hey, this is using the bom, lol

Yeah, that's what i had originally before I got that app, just prefer to be lazy lol.