Read this before you sign up for one. I have sent my Desire back after 3 days.
My heartfelt sympathies! I do not work outdoors, I work indoors in IT doing UNIX server admin, and I am constantly asking "why does this phone deserve all these glowing reviews" ??? Are the other phones THAT bad ?
Battery life aside, because after the iPhone, it's no secret, touch screens chew battery, but the general useability of the phone is poor. The speaker is tinny for calls, so it's a phone, but don't use it for that...
The media player supplied (certainly with mine) is rubbish. I don't know much about it other than it's a green musical note. I've come from a Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman phone and it walks all over this one. Literally. The FM radio reception is ABYSMAL. The Media app doesnt even seem to have equalizer settings. Only something like the iTunes store. Great, I already own the album.. I'll buy it again? I don't understand this logic. Having to unlock the screen to get back into the app to change the song is a pain in the a**
On the point of media, the volume control is in a stupid place, I keep changing it accidently when its in my pocket on the train, or if it's in landscape mode surfing the net.
I live in France, but work in English, so an AZERTY keyboard is what I want not QWERTY and an English dictionary. Every morning I switch the phone back on, it's still in AZERTY but reverted to french dictionary.
So useabilty is down the pan.
The promise is that Android in the future will be what Apple OS isn't, open and more applications will get into the public domain.
So what's it good for ? Surfing the net, that's good. But battery life really prevents me doing too much.. The phone is on my desk all day on charge from my hour and half trip in to work, and of course it's on silent cos that's office