HTC Desire

Confusing review title? Probably...

I bought this phone and had quite a high monthly repayment at £23 a month for 2 years. However it was the ultimate life saver while I was traveling in Malaysia and didn't have access to a PC. I was able to book my home flights with it and do my computer work every day.

The specs when I bought the phone back in July 2011 made it better in every way than the iphone. Longer battery, bigger screen etc etc.

And as it is android, it is way better for app developers. I even programmed my own 'Hello World' Application.

I would highly recommend this phone. Phone is still going strong today and I never stop using it.

I've had this phone for over six months, and although I am not an expert and use some of the functions provided but not all, I can say that the phone is good, it is the right size and easy to handle, running on android the system is reliable and apps availability is great. The battery lasts around 3 days depending on use, the camera is decent, and the screen quality is also pretty good and clear.

I have this phone now for 2 months, after much debate within me I decided that this was the best choice because the phone was affordable and it offered everything I need, a 5mpx camera, an android operating system which is slick and reliable, a price tag of £120 new and 3 years warranty on pay as you go, so no contract, and by the way I got it in the O2 shop. I must say that so far I feel I made the right choice, the phone is very nice to handle, easy to use, and fast, the internet works well and slowly I am installing new apps to my liking that I use regularly. The fact that I don't have a contract, still I own a smarthpone makes me happy.

Couldn't been happier, I made the right choice, whilst everybody goes out spending hundreds on iPhone and others, I went to the shop and bought this phone very cheaply, brand new and with 3 years warranty, I love the phone, I think is first of the all the right size to be handled with one hand, it has all the functions you could possibly imagine, is on Android so you can just imagine the plethora of apps available, everything work perfectly, smoothly and nice. I am very happy with this phone.

Damaged my phone, had forgotten that I had square trade cover for it and got it repaired. A week later realised I had warranty cover and got in touch with the Square trade and the help I got was just amazing and easy and even after a week late I got the money back that I had spent or repairing my phone.

Thank god I bought the Square trade cover for the phone.

I would recommend square trade warrant cover for everyone buying any kind of electronics!!

I have had the mobile phone for a 2 years and the biggest problem I came across was the ear piece which the voice quality was so bad that I had to ask in a umber of times to text me instead. The mobile phone has been sent for repair three times to 3G and the diagnoses came negative. IT has almost 1GHz processing power but I doubted the software designed utilised effectively all the powers because which taping on the anything there is always a slight delays.

I have two HTC Desire S, one used by myself, the other one used by my wife. After working well for about 12 months, both phones are now permamtly rebooting when used ourside their home network (i.e. when roaming) and randomly rebooting when used in the home network. The bug prevents any use of the phone outside the home network, i.e. during travels abroad.

I unsuccessfully tried to solve the problem by the various procedures recommended in the handbook (including factory reset).

As the failurs is exactly the same for two different phones, it is obviously a systematic failure. This judgement is supported many other reports on this bug, which can be found in in the internet.

The complete lack of support by HTC for this severe and obviously systemtic problem is very disappointing.

I got this phone in April last year on a contract. The guy in the shop recommended it as it was fairly new on the market. He even set everything up for me and showed how to use the android market. I was happy as it was my first touch screen phone. The cracks started to show after a few weeks were I noticed the battery life was very poor and I was constantly charging the phone, the screen also froze unexpectedly and switched off without warning. You would get a message asking if you 'want to report the issue' but clicking on yes did not help. I can not wait until my contract runs out in November. The android market does not work and can hardly download anything. Next time I will stick to what I know. Simplicity is always best.

HTC Desire is a good smartphone and not so expensive but its worth the price. Features are all good.

Although an older model, this gave the iPhone a run for its money. Really great interface and really good if you like a little more control over what your phone does (rather than apple who control most aspects of the user expereince)

Only cons are the battery (as with all smart phones) but the BIGGEST gripe I have is the internal memory is only 500MB(ish) and most of this is taken up by the operating system - this leaves hardly any room to store apps and games - although you can move some/part of the apps to the SD card, in reality most of the app is left in internal memory which means I can only install about 5 - 10 apps at any one time. Really big let down and surprising oversite from what else is a great phone! (You get fed up of the phone reminding you it has no memory left after a while...!) For this oversite which seems to be in many HTC phones I probably would look to a samsung in the future.