Ordered my Desire HD today. Interesting phone call as it turned out.



Started off with me asking for the upgrades section where I was quoted £199.99 + £25 a month on a 24 month contract. Somewhat different to my previously agreed tariff when I rang a month ago. I couldn't get the deal I was offered last month apparently as it had expired. After politely telling the woman on the end of the phone that the offer I was made last month was to be available from the 1st of this month and that if I didn't get that particular deal I would be cancelling my contract I was quite incredibly put through to a nice Welsh gentleman at retentions. He somehow managed to not only give me the contract I wanted on an 18 month tariff but give me an extra 100 minutes a month. Truly incredible!

My son has the choice of 2 phones and he can't decide so any experience of either would be gratefully received:



Sony Ericsson X10 Pro Mini or the HTC Wildfire.

I've decided on Free Desire HD phone for 24 month with 300 mins, 3000 text and 500mb for £30.



Or 100 mins, 500 txts (more than enough) 500mb for £25



Moving from 02 to Vodafone

We have the Desire and it's a fantastic phone, the HD is meant to be far superior so you have one cracking phone on it's way to you!!

But nowhere near enough value for your money.

Then you'll find out what truly crap 3G access really is like

My 3G signal on o2 seems to have disappeared this week

It might not be 02's problem, last November my 3g went on my iphone (im with TMoblile) and our 3g broadband went too (we are with 3 for that) turns out 3 (who look after all 3g signal in the UK) had a damaged local reciever which affected the postcode, it did take 6 weeks for it to return mind

I've never had much of a problem with Vodafones 3g access in the North West.

Apart from Brizzol, it's crap in the South West. Emma can have no 3g signal on her iPhone, while I've usually got a perfect signal on my N8 (T-Mobile)

They do?

I get NO phone signal in the house anywhere with O2.



Sam Buca II - feel free to point me to a better deal!

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Cheapest being with Phones4U

£25 (£20.83) after cash back, 300mins & Unltd Texts or £21.88 if you want 500mb of data.



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Sim only with T-Mobile: £20.42 = 600 minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited internet.

Sadly they cap it at either 500MB or 1GB

Surprised me too.



I thought the single most attractive thing for Orange in the T-Mobile merger was T-Mobile's 3g coverage

The £25 deal was with phones4u so gone with similar deal with them. it had to be Vodafone as can't get much of a signal with o2 or Orange

my old man's deciding to upgrade to something that hasn't come from Lidl, for some reason he's randomly picked on a

HTC Wildfire, which he can get slightly cheaper as a virgin media customer.



Is it any crack? i don't know much about it, he's not a haevy user either text or calls, its mainly for mother cat to keep tabs on him. The one thing he has expressed an interest in it having, is possibly Sat Nav, does anyone know if it has a reasonable app for that, or any major probs with it?



Cheers

It's not a bad phone mate, hot the highest spec in the world but should do for what your old man wants, Android has Google Maps installed (but you may need to download the free update for it) that can be used as a basic sat nav.

Not a bad phone a few mates of mine have one, mines a HTC desire and its great

I've got one of the phones and that perfectly sums it up for me.

Right, i've finally strayed away from nokia ( only once before, Samsung U900 soul, sack of $..t, then back to nokia) and got the HTC Desire HD, any must have apps i should know about?





PS, seems quite a good phone..

, although a tad on the large side.

I've done the exact same thing today, only had Nokia's since first getting a mobile in '98, my HD arrives tomorrow, I'm actually quite scared.

You should be..





Make sure you have your old Nokia at the ready, blue tooth enabled, all contacts and texts are moved over effortlessly. E-mail set up is scarey at the ease of it. Still finding my way around it myself, i'm sure there'll be lots of hidden wonders and probs to overcome untill we get used to it, but first impressions are it is a very good phone, Nokia could be in for a rough ride with this phone and i-phone battling it out.

Speaking of i-phone, that's what Mrs Graftonred has but even she is impressed.

I've had mine nearly a week and not done much with it really. The battery is RUBBISH! So much so i've took a lead into work.