Here is engadgets review of the desire.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/htc-desire-review/
Accoding the the last section called "Wrap-up" the first paragraph reads:
The Desire is yet another fine piece of work from HTC - build
quality is top notch as usual, and there's little to complain about the
software except for the Flash performance. Some may argue that the Desire
lacks freshness since the Nexus One's already shown it all, but we'd
disagree - at the end of the day it's mainly about the software and
<http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/google-starts-live-phone-support-to-nexu
s-one-owners/> service, plus the Desire is available from more carriers to
begin with (outside the US, anyway).
If I were looking into buy the phone given the review I wouldn't feel bad
about buying it, but that's me.
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Thanks.
Is the Desire a good choice?
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Tommy <[email protected]> wrote:
I would HIGHLY recommend HTC.. THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL PHONES! One of my phones
is the HTC Aria I use for development and my main personal phone.. Great
phones. An example.. My wife threw a pair of paints at me as hard as she
could (we were playing around she wasn't trying to kill me) but she didn't
know my HTC was in my pocket. Well the pants missed me by a mile(probably
b/c she is a girl J) and hit the oak bed back.. I heard the phone hit and
just assumed the phone was trashed. It hit really hard. The only thing that
happened was the case popped off. No cracks. no breaks. Phone still works
like it did when it was knew..
I recommend HTC to anyone and everyone until they show me they don't deserve
to be recommended.
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raghav Sood
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [android-developers] Phone for development
Thanks Pepijn. That helps a lot. I'll most probably do with a HTC now.
Thanks everyone.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 27/04/2011 16:12, Raghav Sood wrote:
Okay. I'll check that out. Still can someone suggest a reasonably priced
android 2.2 or above phone?
Thanks
Since no one's giving you any advice I'll give it a try ;)
The dev phones I use myself are Motorola Milestone XT720, HTC Desire,
Samsung Galaxy S and a Google Nexus S; one for each OS revision. I know
these are all high-end devices, but I can try to extrapolate my experience
with those.
Objectively, they're all fairly similar for development purposes. I don't
use these phones for anything besides testing so I can't comment on any
Android customizations each vendor might have made. Subjectively, I prefer
the HTC the most in terms of feel and build quality. HTC seems to do a
pretty good with their OS updates as well and they actually use OTA updates
rather than requiring some buggy proprietary tool.
If you stick with HTC the only model they seem to have in the 230 euro / Rp.
15000 price range is the wildfire. The wildfire is listed in Belgium at 229
euro and the wildfire S at 289 euro. The first one is a Froyo device, the
second one Gingerbread.
I don't know about the specific Samsung model you mentioned, but the Galaxy
and Nexus are pretty good too FWIW. The only downsides to Samsung IMO is
that you have to use Kies to perform upgrades which can be a pain and they
feel rather flimsy, plasticy. The HTC has a sturdier feel to it.
Hope this helps,
Pepijn
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