I'm seriously tempted to grab one of these when Orange get them mid-November.
Has anyone managed to have a go on one yet? The only downside I can think of is the potentially poor battery life, but being an iPhone user I'm already used to having to charge my phone every night.
Also, any Android tips? I understand that you can load up custom ROM's, are there any in particular worth looking at?
Cyanogenmod and Modaco are both working on ROM's for the HD
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With the speed the Desire HD is gonna give you, you ain't going to need a custom rom!
But it's still nice to have the option to :flirty:Just
look at this boot time:
That's just insane :blink:
Wow, that boot time is amazing. Without timing it I'd have thought my stock hero would beat the iPhone boot time, but the Desire HD boot was unbelievable...must have been in some sort of stand-by surely? That is the future of phones.
htc start-up noise only plays when you do a full startup. that is based on a couple of other HTC phones ive seen (hero, HD2) and my desire
That phone(more like a multimedia tablet with possibility to make a call) looks and sounds interesting. It is just that using all those possibilities really kills the battery. A totally new phone and it can barely stay on for one day, thats is like back in the 90's times.
One thing is for sure: HTC must have some trick up their sleeve here. I'd guess in the lines of what T-Bag suggests, some kind of standby or sleep mode etc, because it is hardly even possible to load the kernel itself that fast, much less a full boot from "completely off".
Still, it is pretty cool. And also as T-Bag says, this is the future. You can't wait anywhere between 1-2 minutes from you push the power button till your phone is usable...
The boot time is impressive, but it's not a dealbreaker for me.
I've read that the HD has a different CPU from the original Desire, which is alot more power efficient - hopefully that means the battery life won't be completely useless.
I think it could be a very sweet phone and once the Orange bloatware is off and a custom ROM is on it would be, well desirable :-) As to battery life I've done a quick blog thing on a few apps I use to stretch the battery life. That being said smartphone's are more pocket computers than phones. My netbook gives me 9 hours of moderate use and that is considered to be very good. So a pocket computer, camera, camcorder and phone combined is doing pretty well to give me 12 to 16 hours a day. Compared to a dumb phone the batteries on smart phones are pretty poor. But compared to a laptop they rock.
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