HTC Desire advice?
Aug. 25th, 2010 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothOn 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!
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!
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Date: 2010-08-25 07:17 am (UTC)Google Gesture Search
Google Maps
Flixster movie app - does Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, plus local movie times
Wapedia - Wikipedia reader.
Spotify (if you're willing to pay £10/month for music)
Facebook app
3G Watchdog - keeps track of your download/upload usage.
xbmc remote (if you use xbmc to watch tv)
barcode scanner - vital for downloading things from web pages that have one of those cool 2D barcodes.
LJBeetle occasionally for LJ posting
Delicious plugin for the browser
Quick Save plugin for the browser to allow me to save items to ReadItLater (which I can then read in Firefox when I get home)
Edit - and seconding Swype. It's a keyboard replacement, and you have to get onto the beta list to get access to it. But it's vastly superior to the built-in keyboard.
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Date: 2010-08-25 07:43 am (UTC)Sadly:
http://beta.swype.com/
The Swype Beta is CLOSED
June 2010: Thanks for your interest, the Beta is now closed.
Please register here and we will notify you when the beta re-opens.
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Date: 2010-08-25 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 07:48 am (UTC)