Thanks a lot Pepijn On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt < [email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with that review. As I already said in the set of devices I have > available, that one's my 'favorite'. > > A couple of my colleagues have one for personal use as well and are very > happy with it. BTW, there's also a revamped 'S' version of the desire which > is a gingerbread device. It's probably a bit more expensive than the regular > desire though. > > Pepijn > > > On 27/04/2011 22:22, Tommy wrote: > > 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 > service<http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/google-starts-live-phone-support-to-nexus-one-owners/>, > 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. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > *On Behalf Of *Raghav Sood > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:42 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [android-developers] Phone for development > > > > 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. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [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 > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > > -- > Raghav Sood > http://www.raghavsood.com/ > http://www.androidappcheck.com/ > > http://www.telstop.tel/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > > -- > Raghav Sood > http://www.raghavsood.com/ > http://www.androidappcheck.com/ > > http://www.telstop.tel/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Raghav Sood http://www.raghavsood.com/ http://www.androidappcheck.com/ http://www.telstop.tel/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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