HTC Desire

[BrotherTobious]

Well I had a play today in the shop and most impressed, I am really considering moving.

Just a few questions to come but heres the first.

I use putty quite a lot at work is there a terminal app for that?

[b00n]

Well I had a play today in the shop and most impressed, I am really considering moving.

Just a few questions to come but heres the first.

I use putty quite a lot at work is there a terminal app for that?

If you mean putty as a ssh client, then the command line equivalent is just 'ssh'. Can you guess what the telnet command is?

EDIT: Just realised Android doesn't have a proper shell so disregard the above, but I believe there are market apps for it.

[Gandalf]

Well I had a play today in the shop and most impressed, I am really considering moving.

Just a few questions to come but heres the first.

I use putty quite a lot at work is there a terminal app for that?

http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.connectbot

[BrotherTobious]

I also use telnet and such and putty has them all built in thus my use of the Putty.

But thanks for the help I am really close to getting one just a bit more exploring.

[delanvital]

I also use telnet and such and putty has them all built in thus my use of the Putty.

But thanks for the help I am really close to getting one just a bit more exploring.

Check with James as well, I think he has one as well.

[sulky_uk]

my  wife relented and decided to get the desire instead of the Hd2 and all i can say is wow

and it says

firmware
2.1

so new android on it then:)

[BrotherTobious]

So we all still happy, notice anything that is buggy etc, O2 are soon releasing and just wondering what I should be aware of

[Gandalf]

Love it, fantastic. So much better than the Hero.

[sulky_uk]

havent found anything wrong with it.....if only i could have 1 but 1 yr to go on n97 contract

[smilodon]

Hmmmm faults.

1. Power hungry. Heavy use without some sort of power manager app is going to kill the phone in a day.

2. Screen is unreadable in direct sunlight. Turn the brightness up to 100% and it's OK. Better if you cup your hand over the screen.

3. Screen colours are a little off due to an odd hardware set up. Some greys appear to have a slightly pink hue. See HERE for details. It's hardly noticeable and not a problem at all

4. Friends stream. Whenever it updates it jumps you to the top of the stream (i.e. newest feed) so you have to scroll all the way back down to where you were before the update in order to read stuff in the order it arrived. Makes the Friend Stream feature pointless.

On the other hand there are things that are much better than I expected.

1. Camera. Actually takes nice photos and is very fast for a digital camera. Nowhere near DSLR speeds but then there are no digital cameras anywhere that come remotely close to those speeds.

2. Video, also better and clearer than I imagined.

3. Live wallpapers. Totally pointless but very cool looking

4. Casing is very smooth and doesn't pick up fingerprints etc. Always looks clean.

5. Optical trackball. Better than the Hero's trackball which wasn't bad itself. Easy to use and responsive.

6. Speed. It's lightning fast. Faster than an iPhone and faster than I was expecting.

[sulky_uk]

Hmmmm faults.

1. Power hungry. Heavy use without some sort of power manager app is going to kill the phone in a day.

first app i downloaded for the wife was advanced task killer (its free) from the market. only reason i did this was because i have had something similiar on all the phones ive had since my nosy Ericsson p900. Now she can get 3 days out of the battery b4 charging, and that includes a bit of phone use per day. One thing i did notice is the amount of programs the thing runs by default, this thou gets rid of the blighters.

[Gandalf]

first app i downloaded for the wife was advanced task killer (its free) from the market. only reason i did this was because i have had something similiar on all the phones ive had since my nosy Ericsson p900. Now she can get 3 days out of the battery b4 charging, and that includes a bit of phone use per day. One thing i did notice is the amount of programs the thing runs by default, this thou gets rid of the blighters.

I used to use this, but ran into loads of problems with it killing stuff it shouldn't do and stopping essential things from working such as text messages!

In the end I got rid of it as the battery life for me is good. I get a couple of days normal use out of mine, a full day heavy use and as it's usb I'm never that far away from a suitable charge point.

[Bob]

I used to use this, but ran into loads of problems with it killing stuff it shouldn't do and stopping essential things from working such as text messages!

I don't know about Task Killer, but I'm using Taskpanel - which I believe is exceptionally good. Amongst others it has an ignore list, so you can explicitly specify which apps not to kill (I learned that the hard way the first time I used it, killing of my alarm - I was a bit late at work the day after ).

[delanvital]

I don't know about Task Killer, but I'm using Taskpanel - which I believe is exceptionally good. Amongst others it has an ignore list, so you can explicitly specify which apps not to kill (I learned that the hard way the first time I used it, killing of my alarm - I was a bit late at work the day after ).

I would like to recommend using Autokiller, adjusted to reasonable settings. Instead of having an app running to sort out your memory, just use this app once to adjust the internal timings to your liking. Pages can be adjusted to megabytes instead. Most important - you can adjust per type of application.

[smilodon]

Another take on the Task Killer Idea.

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/