Over the last few weeks, I've seen an increasing amount of threads about people upgrading, or moving on to something new. I thought I'd share my thoughts on why I'm keeping mine.
First of all, the issues that I once had with my Desire have all been solved. Possibly the biggest problem was internal memory. Now sure, it isn't fixed like on a new handset with 1GB ROM, but I wouldn't ever use all that. And now with the likes of Alpharev and Data2Ext, I can do this.
The camera: This is possibly the one area new phones excel. But to be honest, I don't use it all that often and I recently took out the rear lens cover, which has made a world of difference.
Android is a platform that is no longer just for us geeks. There are increasing numbers of lower price models for sale. There may be dual core handsets, but other than the general speed of the phone, they offer few other advantages at this point. Pretty much all the games on the market, iPlayer, Flash 10.2 etc - they all work perfectly on the Desire. And that is something I don't think will change for a while. I think 1ghz will stay normal for the time being.
We have the latest OS. I'm running CM7 just now, and it's just one of the many 2.3.3 based ROMS available for the Desire. Last night, 2.3.4 was pushed out for the Nexus S. Already, a dev on XDA has ported it to the Desire. What's more, HTC continue to support us and will soon push out an official 2.3.x Desire update OTA.
And this leads me nicely onto another point: The Desire community is still very much alive. Dev's continue to support it with a huge selection of ROMS and MOD's. I would even go as far as saying they do so more than on the newer devices. The community is, and remains, quite remarkable.
If there is one gripe I have about my Desire, it's the apps and games available on the market. I really do wish there were much more better quality apps (dare I say iOS standard). I really think this is the biggest problem with Android, and as soon as it achieves this, Apple will be far less of a competitor. But, this is very much an Android problem. A new device will not fix this.
Now don't get me wrong, if I was offered a free HTC Sensation or Galaxy S2, I would drop my Desire in a heartbeat. But I wouldn't be doing so without sacrifice. I would lose my physical buttons and my optical trackpad, the thriving dev community and not least, my ability to root - It is without doubt, the original,greatest, Android phone.
It hasn't lost support, and it hasn't fallen behind the others. I don't really need to upgrade. I don't really want to upgrade. It's not lost the battle just yet.
My Desire is staying. For the time being at least.
First of all, the issues that I once had with my Desire have all been solved. Possibly the biggest problem was internal memory. Now sure, it isn't fixed like on a new handset with 1GB ROM, but I wouldn't ever use all that. And now with the likes of Alpharev and Data2Ext, I can do this.
The camera: This is possibly the one area new phones excel. But to be honest, I don't use it all that often and I recently took out the rear lens cover, which has made a world of difference.
Android is a platform that is no longer just for us geeks. There are increasing numbers of lower price models for sale. There may be dual core handsets, but other than the general speed of the phone, they offer few other advantages at this point. Pretty much all the games on the market, iPlayer, Flash 10.2 etc - they all work perfectly on the Desire. And that is something I don't think will change for a while. I think 1ghz will stay normal for the time being.
We have the latest OS. I'm running CM7 just now, and it's just one of the many 2.3.3 based ROMS available for the Desire. Last night, 2.3.4 was pushed out for the Nexus S. Already, a dev on XDA has ported it to the Desire. What's more, HTC continue to support us and will soon push out an official 2.3.x Desire update OTA.
And this leads me nicely onto another point: The Desire community is still very much alive. Dev's continue to support it with a huge selection of ROMS and MOD's. I would even go as far as saying they do so more than on the newer devices. The community is, and remains, quite remarkable.
If there is one gripe I have about my Desire, it's the apps and games available on the market. I really do wish there were much more better quality apps (dare I say iOS standard). I really think this is the biggest problem with Android, and as soon as it achieves this, Apple will be far less of a competitor. But, this is very much an Android problem. A new device will not fix this.
Now don't get me wrong, if I was offered a free HTC Sensation or Galaxy S2, I would drop my Desire in a heartbeat. But I wouldn't be doing so without sacrifice. I would lose my physical buttons and my optical trackpad, the thriving dev community and not least, my ability to root - It is without doubt, the original,greatest, Android phone.
It hasn't lost support, and it hasn't fallen behind the others. I don't really need to upgrade. I don't really want to upgrade. It's not lost the battle just yet.
My Desire is staying. For the time being at least.
