I finally got my desire HD and I must say I am mightily impressed so far. This might be because this is my first smartphone. I was using a N72 for the last 3-4 yrs. The initial impressions -
THE GOOD -
1. The UI is very snappy. You won't see lag and juddering here.
2. Social network integration with Sense is great. Linking the contacts was a breeze with the suggestions.
3. Small things like importing contacts and calendars from your previous phone with a few clicks was great.
4. Premium build quality.
5. Decent snapper with the dual LEDs doubling up as a flashlight.
6. Fast boot - It is a great feature to flaunt. I left one of my colleague wide-eyed with the boot time.
THE BAD -
1. Battery life. I am yet to get a full day although I must admit I have been using it rather heavily.
2. The screen - Only when you place the super amoled goodness of the galaxy s beside this. I happened to compare the screens playing the same video and I must admit the video was much sharper with better contrast on the SAMOLED. In general the SAMOLED has a warmer color tone whereas the HTC has a cooler (read bluish) laid back color tone.
3. The speaker is awful at best. Not expected from a premium phone.
But I must say the goods outweigh the bad so far. Also I happened to demo the Dell Venue before this purchase. I played around with it for some 30 mins and I must say the UI is nowhere as slick as compared to HTCs offering. The animations left much to be desired and gave a feeling of juddering. Though the screen was again better in the dell venue. Build quality of the dell was very solid but I still prefer the HTCs to it.
The only annoying problem I have faced so far is with the speakers. It tends to go very low after using the headphone. It took me a reboot into safe mode to fix this. For booting in safe mode follow these steps - Soft reset by removing the battery, power on and press and hold the menu, when the htc logo appears hold the volume down button.
Other users please share any tips you want to share and suggestions for useful apps are most welcome.
MODS- I searched the forum but could not find any specific desire HD threads like the ones we have got for others. Please merge this in case there are any.
THE GOOD -
1. The UI is very snappy. You won't see lag and juddering here.
2. Social network integration with Sense is great. Linking the contacts was a breeze with the suggestions.
3. Small things like importing contacts and calendars from your previous phone with a few clicks was great.
4. Premium build quality.
5. Decent snapper with the dual LEDs doubling up as a flashlight.
6. Fast boot - It is a great feature to flaunt. I left one of my colleague wide-eyed with the boot time.
THE BAD -
1. Battery life. I am yet to get a full day although I must admit I have been using it rather heavily.
2. The screen - Only when you place the super amoled goodness of the galaxy s beside this. I happened to compare the screens playing the same video and I must admit the video was much sharper with better contrast on the SAMOLED. In general the SAMOLED has a warmer color tone whereas the HTC has a cooler (read bluish) laid back color tone.
3. The speaker is awful at best. Not expected from a premium phone.
But I must say the goods outweigh the bad so far. Also I happened to demo the Dell Venue before this purchase. I played around with it for some 30 mins and I must say the UI is nowhere as slick as compared to HTCs offering. The animations left much to be desired and gave a feeling of juddering. Though the screen was again better in the dell venue. Build quality of the dell was very solid but I still prefer the HTCs to it.
The only annoying problem I have faced so far is with the speakers. It tends to go very low after using the headphone. It took me a reboot into safe mode to fix this. For booting in safe mode follow these steps - Soft reset by removing the battery, power on and press and hold the menu, when the htc logo appears hold the volume down button.
Other users please share any tips you want to share and suggestions for useful apps are most welcome.
MODS- I searched the forum but could not find any specific desire HD threads like the ones we have got for others. Please merge this in case there are any.
. Also enabled USB debugging. Followed the charge discharge cycle for the first three charges. Yesterday with normal usage (rather on the lower side) I was still left with around 60%. Then i watched some youtube videos and played angry birds for about an hour. Reduced to arnd 33%. This is so far the best I have got. Lets see how it turns out today.