Anyone have a HTC phone? What are they like?
I have a Desire, as well as a Bold 9700. I put them both in full cases - the BB came with one, which does the job nicely, and I bought a full case - like a miniature camera case form PC World for all of about ÂŁ8 - it has a velcro flap over, so the phone is secure, and a zip pocket, so I can carry my dinner money too (really, I put business card in there) - and it does the job a treat.
It's a "Golla" case.
As for the Desire, Android stuff is competent, but not really business oriented yet. The issues I have generally revolve around:
Keyboard on screen (though this will cure with training it)
Email - while it deals with multiple accounts, inc POP, and not just Google, you wait until you get 30 emails in one hit, then try marking them all read - only way to do it is to go through them one after the other. The BB can mark 'em all read in one menu option.
Battery life - you'll have the same with the iPhone - don't leave home without a charger, switch off WiFi, GPS, and Blutetooth when not using, or watch your battery die after an hour's worth of calls.
The MAJOR issue I have (with both Desire and 9700) is that neither of them can sync with 64 bit Outlook natively for now - Blackberry are saying 2011, and who knows with Android. There is a third party app that can do it, but at $129 (ÂŁ86) - I'm not rushing out to buy a copy, as I feel the phone should do it out the box, as not to be able to sync with Outlook in any flavour in this day and age is unforgivable, IMO.
I don't also see why I should risk my (considerable) data by removing the 64 bit version of Outlook, which in turn means every other office app, just because they can't be bothered to sort out their connectors. End of the day, they knew as well as everyone else that MS were releasing 64 bit versions of operating systems which are on almost all new laptops, pcs, etc., and that the majority of peeps would, in turn, put the 64 bit versions of Office on those machines. Just bloody lazy!
On the plus side, for the first time, I can google properly on site without a laptop, and read the results, it's fast on the net generally, call quality is good, and if you use a Google account for email etc., it will do everything seamlessly - email, docs, calendar, contacts, etc.
There's some great time wasters in the Market - Alchemy has to be one of my all time favourites - and I have a brilliant little app on there that does many electrical calcs on the fly, such as Ohms Law, battery life, LED voltages, resistor bridges, capacitance, and more - free, too. The camera is also far better on the Desire, than the wimpy effort on the BB.
