HD2 gone, Heeelllloo Desire

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Just sold my HTC HD2 as couldn't cope with Windows anymore.

Anyway, been looking online and the cheapest I've found the Desire sim free and unlocked is with Handtec at £389.00.

Anybody found anywhere cheaper?

£387.75 from Clove

HD2 = 35% more screen area

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You do realise you're saying goodbye to a 35% larger screen, don't you? And with a screen it is area that counts, not diagonal, since twice the diagonal is four times the screen area.

Android is better than WM, but it's not so much better that it's worth kissing goodbye to so much screen area in a device almost the same size, in my opinion.

If you don't believe the HD2's screen is 35% bigger, here's the calc:

3.7" diagonal with 800*480 resolution has a height of 3.7/SQRT(800*800 + 480*480)*800 = 3.17" and a width of 3.7/SQRT(800*800 + 480*480)*480 = 1.90", so it has an area of 3.17 * 1.90 = 6.04 square inches.
4.3" diagonal with 800*480 resolution is 8.16 square inches area. (3.69 * 2.21)
8.16 - 6.04 = 2.12, so the HD2 has 2.12 square inches more screen area.
2.12/6.04 = 0.35, so the HD2 has an extra 35% area over the Desire.

What do you see as the benefit to that screen area?

And it's pointless to have it unless you feel productive with it, which the OP obviously didn't...

Seeing that I'm losing a bigger screen for 30,000 apps instead of Windows 100, a OS that is going to be updated in the future unlike Windows 6.5 never seeing Windows 7 so in turn is dead in the water.....I think I can live with that!

Originally Posted by mhewitson

What do you see as the benefit to that screen area?

And it's pointless to have it unless you feel productive with it, which the OP obviously didn't...

A bigger screen area gives you two significant benefits:
1) Easier to see smaller details, e.g. on a website, so less zooming in/out required.
2) Easier to interact with your big fat finger, e.g. small links on a website.

But I shouldn't have to explain that to you.

Originally Posted by williap

Seeing that I'm losing a bigger screen for 30,000 apps instead of Windows 100, a OS that is going to be updated in the future unlike Windows 6.5 never seeing Windows 7 so in turn is dead in the water.....I think I can live with that!

Well that's fair enough then, because apart from the bigger screen, I can't think of any other benefits that the HD2 has over the Bravo. But then I love that big screen! Hopefully by the time I get my next phone, HTC will have watched WP7S crash and burn, and then decided to put Android v3.1 on their HD3. Big screen & Android = best of both worlds.

I'm probably gonna skip the hd2 on t-mobile and wait for the desire or another snapdragon t-mobile htc phone.

I found the HD2 just to be slightly *too* big.. It was just too much for me whenever I've used one. Beautiful screens though!

If you want a bigger screen just wait for the Dell "mini" 5! Any bigger than that and you'll have a tablet-phone!

Originally Posted by williap

Seeing that I'm losing a bigger screen for 30,000 apps instead of Windows 100, a OS that is going to be updated in the future unlike Windows 6.5 never seeing Windows 7 so in turn is dead in the water.....I think I can live with that!

Actually, Microsoft has said that they will continue to support and update WinMo 6.5 alongside WP7S, even though it won't be included on new devices. I would still take Desire over the HD2 any day, though