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Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone
Andrew Smith writes "My search for an alternative to the iPhone has been long and frustrating. On paper, the HTC Desire is the first serious challenger to the iPhone's reign as king of phones. But how does it compare in use? There is much good and much bad. (This review is primarily for UK readers as HTC's new handset, the Incredible, will not be available [in the UK].)"
Ha, ha, ha, yeah, I here that all the time. People walking down the street, complaining about Apple's control. What a fucking joke, wake up and join the real world. A small technical elite might make such pronouncements, the majority do not care about this stuff.
His point was that "The iphone still rules the "total experience dept"" is a subjective observation, and his argument for that was good enough to support it.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
The "incredible" is not even released.
There are many phones that are already Android-powered and make the apple toy irrelevant.
- wifi tethering - the Droid does
- freedom to select an app steve jobs didn't approve with his pedophile priest - the Droid does
- open-source - the Droid does
Sorry iCrap, the Droid does...
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And while there are certainly people like that who like Apple, they are no different than Linux zealots; and would you say that either camp was indicative of the userbase of both platforms?
Apple fans are much worse. You really have to be an Apple fanboi not to see that, and you really have to be an Apple fanboi to insist on comparing one group to the other when they are criticised. And guess what, you are an Apple fanboi.
By making the battery non-removable, Apple can make it larger and hold more of a charge. The thinking is that most people will be able to charge the thing pretty readily at some point during their day, and they'll be ready to move on to a new phone by the time the old battery wears out. That sucks for people like you, who don't have ready access to a plug all the time. But that's the tradeoff Apple's made. So unfortunately, your choice is to suck it up and live with the problem, or buy some other phone.
One thing I will point out: if you really, really want the iPhone, but can't deal with the lack of a second battery... they make external batteries for the thing. You can get models that connect to the dock port via a lead, or models that consist of an iPhone case with an external battery built in. Either way, kinda clunky and not for me, but better than nothing.
Because anyone who's been to Japan is automatically more trustworthy on this subject than actual DATA (which, famously, is not the plural of anecdote).
Guess what! I've been to Japan too! But I'll be signing up for the actual statistics, rather than yours or my random impressions.