I tried to put my iPhone away as many who know me know that I’m just far too attached to the iPhone. So for the last two days I’ve tried to put the iPhone away and relegate it to the desk or to my pocket and keep the Desire and HD2 as my main phones.
The 2nd day is continuing to be great with the HTC Desire running Android OS 2.1. I’m finding more and more of my apps that I use on my iPhone on the Marketplace, but there’s still a heap of apps that aren’t on the marketplace or apps that I’m not prepared to purchase just yet because I have such an investment in the iPhone OS and iTunes.
I am really liking the HTC Desire, I think I could probably almost move across to this as my main device, but the games are severely lacking and in quality. Don’t get me wrong, there are some good games, but a lot of the games are very very basic that I’ve installed so far. Likewise a number of apps are pretty buggy, take Sky News for instance, it frequently hangs on the Desire. This is one of the downsides of the Android OS that each new OS and each new phone brings compatibility issues with it, worse than Windows Mobile!
The HD2, a fantastic device, lovely large screen, but the keyboard just isn’t that good. It mimicks what’s on the Desire but larger, but I constantly find that I type the wrong characters and the predicitive text doesn’t correct it anywhere near as much as it does on the Desire. The apps/games are seriously lacking from the Windows Market, Microsoft and developers have a long way to go to get it anywhere close to what Android has, and then a whole load more to get it to anywhere close to what the iPhone has.
So far although I love the size of the screen on the HD2, I just wouldn’t be able to use it as a proper device using it for Social Media, email, messenger and everything I do in my daily life. The Desire comes much much more closer to my experience on the iPhone, there’s one thing seriously annoying me and that’s the multi-tasking. It does do multi-tasking, but the problem is (like what Apple has suggested before about Android) is that if you try to multi-task then you find the device frequently slowing down or freezing just when you’re doing something important like typing a tweet or an email reply. This to me is unacceptable, and there has to be a somewhere inbetween level of allowing multi-tasking but not killing the processor, and I think from what we’ve seen so far of the iPhone OS4 preview, Apple probably have found that fine balance and this is where the iPhone OS4 will shine.
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