HTC Desire advice?

[ciphergoth]

On Sunday night I actually had a dream about buying the HTC Desire. On Monday morning, eating my breakfast, I heard an ominous clicking noise that told me my hard drive was about to die. Putting these together, and with BiCon on the way, I finally stopped resisting temptation and went and bought one.

So, those of you who already have them - any advice? What applications should I be installing? What games do I need? How do I play videos copied to the memory card? Anything else I should know?

Looking forward to seeing lots of you at BiCon!

Update: I would have thought this was obvious, but: since I've just bought the phone this isn't a thread for advocating which phone to buy. Just had to screen one comment that had no purpose but to say I should have bought a different one!

Comments

[sweetcyanide.livejournal.com]

Desires are awesome, have had mine a couple of months and I still love it :-)

For videos, something like doubletwist is good. Or you'll need a file explore (es explorer is a good one) and then you can select the file to play with the inbuilt video player. They will all need to be in mpeg 4, but I think there's a few players out there now that do other formats.

I couldn't like without Swype- I think you still have to have to download from the web rather that the market, but it makes it so much easier to to type!

For a newsreader, newsrob is good. Twicca is the best app I've found for twitter. I use the kindle and last fm apps lots too. Launcher pro is the best home screen replacement I've found.

Evernote is brilliant for note taking, and the gtasks app is useful if you use google tasks.

Have lots of fun! :-)

[pir.livejournal.com]

The swype beta has closed, unfortunately.

[sweetcyanide.livejournal.com]

Oh no, that sucks :-(

Am sure it's been so successful it'll be let launched properly soon though!

[pir.livejournal.com]

The problem is they're going for easier markets; being preinstalled on a phone range rather than purchases from individuals. It's unclear if you'll ever be able to buy it from the Market.

[sweetcyanide.livejournal.com]

Glad I downloaded it when I did then! :-/