Sweet, also heard good reports from another mate, think gonna go for it but just a bit unsure what version.

Is the Desire HD pretty pricey on contract?

Shouldn't be as it's been out a while. I know it's free on 30 quid deals with 3.

Ah right, excellent.

That's what I was thinking when I got my upgrade last year, I wasn't convinced it was worth paying that much out for, especially with the bad press they got. I was going to get the Desire but two different people in two different shops and reviews online I changed my mind to the Wildfire as I was after a cheaper contract. I saw the Desire HD one for the first time last week, a mate of mine has just got it and it's a quality bit of kit mate, I'm really impressed by it. You've picked a good'un there. As I said I think apps for Android are getting better and there's more and more coming out all the time, maybe with my phone being a 'lower quality' the apps aren't looking as good.

Try mobiles.co.uk



Put in your handset and it will bring up the cheapest options, lots of contracts on there that come with gifts such as cash back or other stuff. They have some good deals, theink the HD was £32 but with 6 months free.

Well I've been told that I've got to put £40 towards for the HTC Desire from my network, but that my bills will be £15-£20 a month which sounds spot-on. Didn't say which version of the Desire but not too worried too be honest, have had mostly Ericsson Walkman phones the last few years so any smartphone will seem really advanced for me.

To be honest I'm hardly one to make use of every last inch of processing power a phone has....cheers though, I shall make the plunge

This. I wanted a Desire HD. Rang them up before my upgrade was due and after telling them I was thinking of leaving I got offered 18 months at £15 a month and £100 for the handset. Rang them up on upgrade day and they said they couldn't do that. Anyways I kicked up a stink and after half an hour of rejecting their new offers I told them it was my way or the highway.



I now have a Desire HD on an £15 18 month contract. I don't really ring anyone so minutes aren't an issue for me but I have unlimited texts and 1gb data. Think I even got them to take something off the price of the handset.



Lesson is be a and you get a better deal.

Still am. Been using both the HD and S.Since the upgrade to Gingerbread on the HD the battery life has improved. The HD is a lot bigger, great for games and movies, the S is a more conventional size. Both are very responsive and running Gingerbread o/s, so it's about choice i suppose, do you want a large phone or normal size.

Also the apps are more than adequate, lots of good ones, the Iphone may have more but Android not far behind.

Just got myself a Galaxy s 2, the best phone i have ever used, so responsive its untrue

Anyone heard much about the nokia n8? Any horror storys that would put me off it?

Just found out I can get an upgrade from Vodafone and tbh I'm getting a bit fed up with my BlackBerry Storm. It's a decent solid phone but is now showing it's age both coverage- and battery-wise.



According to the Vodafone website I can get a free HTC Sensation on the same plan as now. Should I? I see HTC phones are popular, but HTC/Android would be a whole new world to me. Mrs28 has an Iphone so I assume that it would be similar-ish to that? Main thing is does it have Angry Birds?





Grateful for any views.



Ta

Yes HTC/Androidit has angry birds, I completed that ages ago mind





The Sensation sounds like a very good phone from the reveiws I read at the weekend.

Got my HD through phones for you. 30 quid everything unlimited 24 month. Might be even cheaper now. They gave me 50 quid for my Ericsson too

It is nice. Form factor is the only let down.



I have the Samsung Nexus S. Fantabulous phone and screen and it's so utterly fantastic form factor wise. Far nicer than your square HTC devices.

There is very little difference between the two, they are both the same form factor.

The Nexus S is all curvy and elegant. It has a subtle contour to the screen and just feels lovely to use. T'other one is a more powerful device but is a much more uniform bog-standard shape.

Ah, but that isn't a form factor mate

right i lost my blackberry phone abit ago. i just had a £25 a month deal gimme so many minutes txt and 500mb data a month. Im only 10 months into a 24 month contract and as my phone is not insured i wasnt given a new 1. My dad has just give me his iphone3g as he has now upgraded to the iphone 4. Iv put my sim card into the iphone and i get signal and can ring,send and recieve txt but it says i havent got an iphone tarrif and that if i dont have a tarrif that includes data then i should change to an iphone tarrif. My friend told me that he put his old sim card into an iphone and was fine so what seems to be the problem here? I thought id have been ok seeing as im ment to have 500mb data a month? anyone know anything about this? thanks

What network? You could try ringing them and explaining the situation and asking them to swap your data for an iphone tariff and see if they will agree to it.



I take it the internet doesn't work on the iphone?

its o2. i had the blackberry curve 3g. Obviously the internet is working on wi fi, just saying that i dont have data plan when i try to go on without using the wi fi. was assuming that i could of just carried on using my existing 500mb data?

You're Internet in the blackberry is RIM (blackberry only) the iPhone uses it's own package also. Ring O2 and ask them to set up the Internet through your iPhone. They may send you a 3G sim card to put in. I think it's a fiver a month for unlimited Internet use.

i rung o2 and they said i would have to change tarrifs at first but it wasnt quite as good but alittle be deerer but then he said i could try changing the settings and changing some data address and it seems to be working at the moment. he said he will notify me if it starts doing other charges and if it does then il just have to get the other tarrif but i think its looking good at the moment!

my contracts up in 6 months or so, i've currently got a nokia 5800xpress, which i do quite like, i've not bothered with apps and add ons and , but for calls and music(use it instead of my ipod) its top notch.



Any reccomendations for something similar as a replacement, i'd prefer to stay with a touch screen if poss, but i've been looking at blackberry torch 9800 which looks pretty good as an inbetween.

Just sorted my upgrade, getting the HTC Desire S delivered tommorow.