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

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Fair enough. I have to say that potential cost (either initial payment or contract payments) are one of the biggest things putting me off smartphones at the moment. I can't justify either an outlay of a couple of hundred quid, or being locked into a £30+ a month contract.

Hopefully see you at BiCon on Friday?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

The potential cost is what stayed my hand for a long time, as it should.

Yaay! Looking forward very much to seeing you!

[andrewducker]

I'm paying £25/month for my HTC Desire. I'm fairly sure you can't get it any cheaper than that.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

See, since I'm currently on a PAYG contract and paying out less than £10 a month and getting free text messages and a reasonable wodge of free web acess for that (more than I ever use, anyway), I don't see the appeal of changing. I suppose if I were using web applications a lot I would, but really I don't feel the need.

[juliet]

FWIW, you can currently get the HTC Wildfire (the slightly-less-shiny cousin of the Desire) for £20/month from TMobile. 2 yr contract though. (I have just done this; dithered between that & the Desire but the cost difference swayed me in the end!) If one *can* afford the extra tenner a month I think the Desire is shinier (better screen, slightly better specs in various ways) but for me personally it wasn't worth it.

Apps: the one I use most (on my current G1, which is about to die & which [insert billing nonsense here] thus the switch to the Wildfire) which hasn't already been mentioned is ConnectBot which does SSH, & apparently VNC. I also love Evernote across many devices. And there's a cute thing called Google Sky Map which does STARS. And a London City tube app. I use Twidroid for Twitter but doubtless there are other options.