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[andymac]

What's peoples experiences of them? Had a major falling out with o2 this week over crap customer service and high roaming costs. Tmobile looks ideal plus are doing the htc desire I'm after...

[snake]

I went to them and had no problems so far!, bills are as expected not like orange which seemed to end up costing 40 quid instead of 30. reception has been fine and my G2 runs spot on with their web.

[Stemh]

I've been with them for the last 14/15 months and never had any problems. Never had any stupid bills or anything. And so far ive never lost signal either. My brother is also with t mobile, and never had any problems so far.

Think il be upgrading with them when my contract runs out!

[dangerousdave]

i have a payg t mobile that always looses signal and for some reason uses virgin line all the time ( says so on operator logo on phone!¬ lol) unless its cuz im using a 5 year old work phone? lol

i think ill go with virgin next they do a 30 day rolling contract sim only deal i think for 15 quid a month you get 750mins and unlimited texts

[~nomad~]

I just got the Desire on T-Mobile, the others will all have it by the end of April though. The phone is the funlumps, poos on iPhone from a serious height btw.

[andymac]

Nice Dave, everyone says the phone rocks, oddly I have a legend as a stop gap - my hero/g2 has been playing up for a while. Am on o2 simplicity atm but customer service is crap, never get the same answer twice. Got 600 mins and 1500 texts for 25 quid but I use the phone on holiday too, asked about an international data bundle, got told I could have a gig of data for a tenner, been here two days and had a text telling me I'd run up 50 quid in data charges.

Can get f**cked if they think I'm paying for that. Got my pac code and if they have the desire in on Sunday when I get back home I'll be bagging myself one.

[~nomad~]

Nice Dave, everyone says the phone rocks, oddly I have a legend as a stop gap - my hero/g2 has been playing up for a while. Am on o2 simplicity atm but customer service is crap, never get the same answer twice. Got 600 mins and 1500 texts for 25 quid but I use the phone on holiday too, asked about an international data bundle, got told I could have a gig of data for a tenner, been here two days and had a text telling me I'd run up 50 quid in data charges.

Can get f**cked if they think I'm paying for that. Got my pac code and if they have the desire in on Sunday when I get back home I'll be bagging myself one.

£35 a month for the 1200 mins and unlimited texts and internet. Not sure about roaming costs tbh, I don't really use phone abroad.

[andymac]

Yeah, that's the package I'm looking at. T-mobile do a £10 booster to give you 50mb of international data per month; more than enough for me. I don't spend that much time yakking though, so might go for an 18 month contract instead and sacrifice some minutes.

Am pulling the plug on the O2 direct debit as soon as I post this and off to the tmobile store in 45 mins to go get me one.

[MotorcyclesFish]

I also have a desire, it's a fantastic bit of kit and I'm looking forward to leaning over to iPhone users in public and showing them the latest funny cat-falling-off-skateboard video on a Flash-based site.

Camera to record their disappointed faces at shelling out for a crippled brand-locked phone? There's an (android) app for that.

[~nomad~]

lol, iPhones are fudgekin toss compared to the new Android stuff.

[dontpannic]

Meh, I don't agree - especially since I'm trialling OS4.

They aren't as bad as people make out - especially since I bought mine to use rather than a fashion symbol!

Grant - I don't care about flash! A breath of fresh air browsing the web with no offers of viagra, shoot 5 ducks and win a swimming pool, etc adverts. I literally see no ads on the phone

[MotorcyclesFish]

Meh, I don't agree - especially since I'm trialling OS4.

They aren't as bad as people make out - especially since I bought mine to use rather than a fashion symbol!

Grant - I don't care about flash! A breath of fresh air browsing the web with no offers of viagra, shoot 5 ducks and win a swimming pool, etc adverts. I literally see no ads on the phone

I wasn't asking your opinion.

[~nomad~]

Meh, I don't agree - especially since I'm trialling OS4.

They aren't as bad as people make out - especially since I bought mine to use rather than a fashion symbol!

Grant - I don't care about flash! A breath of fresh air browsing the web with no offers of viagra, shoot 5 ducks and win a swimming pool, etc adverts. I literally see no ads on the phone

Indeed, I use mine for loads already and so does my mate who was diehard iPhone till he got Desire. Its more powerful, does all the things out the box that you need to jailbreak a iPhone to do. Its also more powerful, oled display, looks better, doesnt only come on spastic tariffs and is generally everything a iPhone should be, and more. I genuinly feel for people with the iPhone blinkers on, Apple seems to have that effect on people thou, happy to pay double the price for second best

[dontpannic]

Double the price for second best? There's no such thing as second best - you choose the phone you prefer. You have to remember that when I got my phone, android was still in it's infancy so wasn't an option - however, with OS4, there are a lot of changes that will make a lot of people happy.

I choose my handsets on what I need them to do, doesn't matter what they look like or who else has one

[andymac]

Well, I got one on vodafone from carphone warehouse, unlimited texts and data and 600 mins a month - roughly twice what I use normally. Roaming data in europe zone 1 costs £4.99 for each 25mb you use; so probably around a tenner a week for email, photo uploading, google maps and places directory etc. Suits me just fine; handset is nice, though not big leaps over the legend, despite the way the numbers stack up - it's got a faster processor, sure, but has twice as many pixels to move around.

Point of note, if you get your handset from CPW there's no operator branding as they buy their own phones.

[~nomad~]

Well, I got one on vodafone from carphone warehouse, unlimited texts and data and 600 mins a month - roughly twice what I use normally. Roaming data in europe zone 1 costs £4.99 for each 25mb you use; so probably around a tenner a week for email, photo uploading, google maps and places directory etc. Suits me just fine; handset is nice, though not big leaps over the legend, despite the way the numbers stack up - it's got a faster processor, sure, but has twice as many pixels to move around.

Point of note, if you get your handset from CPW there's no operator branding as they buy their own phones.

no branding on mine either mate

[MotorcyclesFish]

Another thing the desire has over the iphone is that it has four buttons, five if you count the optical track thing. And a volume button. Think the iphone only manages one?

[dontpannic]

Power, Home, Volume down, volume up, silent switch.

Why do you need physical buttons though? Worried the touchscreen will fail?

[~nomad~]

Power, Home, Volume down, volume up, silent switch.

Why do you need physical buttons though? Worried the touchscreen will fail?

lol, I think HTC have a fair amount more touchscreen experiance than Apple. They are also not being sued for the tech in theirs

Fair play if you prefer the iPhone, but the reality is that, out of the box, the iPhone can't do as much as the Desire.Maybe the new one will thou.

[dangerousdave]

my old htc touch was crap but the one with the new andriod thing (the desire is it?) instead of tug windows its mint was looking at it in the shop with the guy demoing it

[MotorcyclesFish]

Power, Home, Volume down, volume up, silent switch.

Why do you need physical buttons though? Worried the touchscreen will fail?

Eh? Why would I buy a product if I thought it would fail? Good point about the power button, forgot that one. It also has one of them.