http://www.telusmobility.com/en/ON/htc_desire/index.shtml

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Did I hear her right? Did she say that it can display Flash sites because I’m pretty sure that we won’t see that until Froyo.

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sweet, i think i’m gonna leave bell to get one.

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YESSSSS……android ftw.

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Ahh this is soo hard. I really really love my Hero and the Sense UI. I think its one of the better custom UIs built for the Android platform (imo, way better than the Mediascape crap on the X10 that lags crazy). And the more I see the Desire, the more I kinda want to stay with HTC, just because Ive been an HTC user for the past 2.5 years.

But then I look at the Samsung phones on Bell: the Samsung Wave and Galaxy S. Galaxy S runs Android 2.1, on a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 5MP camera with 720p HD recording, etc. Than the Wave with its Bada OS (which is a custom Android/TouchWiz UI), with the same specs, Super AMOLED screen, 5MP wé flash and 720p recording, bluetooth 3.0, wifi n, etc etc.

I dunno, anyone have any ideas between the Wave, Galaxy S or DesireÉ I am currently on Telus right now, if that helps.

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I love this phone. Where’s Galaxy S?

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Yeah HTC has Flash 4.1 I think built into sense, so yes you can have flash even though it isnt Froyo. But it isnt as good as what we will see in Froyo.

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HTC has flash on 2.1, otherwise you are correct that flash is only supported in 2.2

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dom, actually sense ui already has flash support.

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@Dom it’s flash lite, which is not very good

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Just because they say its upgradable to 2.2 in the future doesn’t mean Telus will actually push through the update in a timely manner. Just ask all the Hero owners that are still waiting for the elusive 2.1 update that was supposed to come through in March.

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Goodbye Storm ..Hello Desire!

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Same specs as Nexus one, not upgraded. “Huge 3.7″ screen”, lol. And now out of date compared to Bell’s Galaxy S, which I’ll be moving over to. Too bad, would have bought it a month ago.

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Agree with Fate. Had telus released this last month I would have bought one. However, with the impending release of the far superior Samsung Vibrant, I feel that the timing is not optimal for this device.

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Yadda yadda yadda. Another Android Eclair pops up.

All worth a grad total of FA in less than three months.

Anyone ever question why they are pushing these dime a dozen devices. Three in less than six months.

Lol!

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I still prefer the HTC Legend because of its superior design, IMO.

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@Jq News flash, those far superior device will not hit Canada for a while.

The only superior product that is coming soon is the Samsung Galaxy S and with Samsung upgrading track record, you might be better off with an HTC.

I am glad TELUS brings those devices, they’re the only Canadian carier with a descent phone line.

Lol? really?

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just to confirm aswell htc’s sence phones do have flash lite,
and yes flash lite is nothing..
my windows phones have flash lite.. lol
anyone want tha cabs? lol
Flash lite 3.1 or Flash player 7 ? lol
Useless,
have fun trying to find i site that has jarassic flash.. Alltho its cool when you do . lol

BTW You Can install 10.1 on most HTC 2.1 sence phones..

just search xda-developers forums, As it wont show up in tha market unless you have 2.2 or if you find it you Can Not install it.

i may have tha flash 10.1 apk aswell .

this claim was not tested by myself tho..

Tha idea is that stock android browser does not support Plugins .
htc built plugin support in there sence ui’s browser.. so installing flash 10.1 on an htc phone with 2.1 works (so iv herd)
Google only put plugin support in 2.2′s browser,
Seems to me if thats all it is then google could have releaced a minor firmware update for everone else to injoy flash 10.1 Aswell .

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Wow, 5 megapixel camera and 7 screens. Oh and 12 clocks. And.. Flash in browser. Or not. Really compelling demo.

Why do all the weather widgets show the current temperature and conditions? I never need to know that, I can look out the window. Maybe it’s for prisoners in solitary confinement, but they wouldn’t have a handset and anyway it’s a pretty small audience.

The Galaxy S has nice specs, but their add-ons are pretty awful, and the camera isn’t that great. I’d go for a Galaxy S Pro though, or any decent spec’d device with a hardware keyboard.

I’m wondering when Rogers is going to come out with decent Android handsets, or should I switch.

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I didn’t think you were actually blogging this at the event… assumed you’d wait like… more than 30 seconds after the announcements…

You are one dedicated blogger mate. I’ll try to keep up.

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The HTC Desire is rated as the top phone period by TechRadar.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/20-best-mobile-phones-in-the-world-today-645440

also they do a comparison between the Desire, Iphone 4, and Galaxy S

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/htc-desire-vs-iphone-4-vs-samsung-galaxy-s-702739

finally a top rated Android phone in Canada.

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let’s just hope it’s not the same coming soon as the Iphone4 because it has been coming soon for the last 2 weeks

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Will HTC Desire be locked to Telus??

Telus has some nice Android phones. Bell’s offerings are rather old.

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How did they get Flash 10 on it unless its running Froyo. I didn’t think it was possible.

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Awesome!! cant wait to pick one up

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oh and as sweet as the new samsung phones look on bell i just feel like htc has a better grasp of the android platform. so in terms of getting updates sooner and even just having imo the better UI im gonna have to go with htc

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Can anyone briefly explain what “Android Phones” are? A comparison with the iphone4 would be great. Like the pros and cons.

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I believe when they put the Nokia E72 in the Coming Soon status on their site, it was only a week later when you could actually get it. Maybe 2 weeks at most.

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@Chris

Android is Googles smartphone operating system, so an Android phone is one that runs the Android operating system. Comparing this to an iPhone, which runs iOS.

If you use the iphone you use the apple app store, if you use android, its google marketplace. The appstore has around 200K apps, the marketplace is expected to hit 100K apps this month. Does the difference in number of apps matter much? Not sure yet, it seems that there is an app for pretty much anything on both platforms, I guess you just have more options on the appstore. Both will have their fair share of great apps and crap apps though.

The pros of the android system is that it is fully customizable, and its a more open system.

The pros of the iphone is that it is simpler to use because of the lack of customization. Also, because the iphone is still more mainstream with non-techies, it still seems that when a new company decides to join create an app, they make their iphone app first.

A simple google search of HTC desire vs iPhone 4 will get you lots of results, or Android vs iphone. It is a tough subject to research though because of each sites fanboys.

For me, I think both the HTC Desire and the Iphone 4 are great phones, as well as the Galaxy S which will come out for Bell soon. For me, I really like the customization options and I like the Sense UI of the HTC. When you see someones iphone, it looks like every other iphone out there. With android, and the different widgets and customizable screens, everyones phone will look and feel different.

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I was just looking at the Telus website and noticed that TELUS International Roaming was not available for this phone and that GSM was not listed under the specifications for the device. The original Desire supports quad band GSM, does anyone know if the Telus version is going to be crippled?

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@ Willy The phone will almost certainly be locked to Telus but you can get an unlock code for 20$ or so and have the phone unlocked within a few hours.
I bought a milestone from TELUS to run on Fido and once unlocked, had no issue whatsoever.

@stranger THis phone should support quad band GSM. The thing is that TELUS does not support this, they are exclusively a 3G+ network so they don’t support the 2G/2.5G associated with those quad band.

Once the phone is released, a simple lookup of the FCC label should clear that up. A good comparison would be the Milestone, which is quad band GSM and tri-band HSPA.

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@Labrat I’ve been waiting for the Desire but I really want a device that will work well in Europe as well. I guess I’m just being impatient really so I’l just have to wait and see

I was thinking along the same lines as you but the thing the threw me off was that the HTC Hero lists quad band GSM as well as international support. I was surprised that the Desire didn’t. Hopefully it’s just an error with the initial data on the website.

Thanks for the reply.

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Damn you Telus, and your high end Android phones! I still have a year left on my Rogers contract, so I’m hard pressed to switch right now (an extra $200+ for early cancellation? Dunno about that one). The problem is I’m happy with Rogers, other than their serious lack of Android phones.

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Oh and Gort911: just read that iPhone4 vs Desire vs Galaxy S review… It actually kinda made me want the iPhone 4, which is weird, because I was TOTALLY leaning towards the Galaxy S before.

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@Ryan

I believe these devices are really close in quality and functionality that it going to come down to opinion.

Checking one article and making your decision based on that is very tough in this case because of the fanboys (google ones are just as bad an iphone ones) I had a hell of a time researching these phones because of that reason.

For me, I had been waiting for an iphone 4 since January, but once I saw the customizations of the UI and widgets that came with HTC Sense, I knew thats what I wanted.

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As per the Telus site it looks like the Desire will be getting the Sony Super LCD instead of AMOLED, does anyone know if this will be as good or better than the original Desire?

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The HTC Desire HD is rumored to be launching in October 2010.

4.3″ WVGA screen with an 8 MP camera and 720p video recording running on Froyo and a unibody aluminum design similar to the Legend.

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hahaha i love how the guy taping it knows more about the phone than the people discussing it. “its actually got an upgraded spec from the nexus one [...] this uses a 1ghz snapdragon processor” “umm the nexus one uses a 1 ghz snapdragon processor…” haha

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To Ryan who was saying that he preferred getting an iphone4 after reading the article. That’s fine both are great phones. I was just pointing out that the Desire is one of if not the best android phones out there. The lack of flash for the iphone4 is a deal breaker for me, but otherwise it’s a great phone.

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@rm

Actually, it does have upgraded specs from the Nexus one.

For example, the desire has more RAM – 576MB versus the Nexus One’s 512MB.

Thanks

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@Mike R
That should be the real story on Mobile Syrup. “HTC Desire using SLCD instead of AMOLED” See our upcoming comparison with the Nexus One. I’m waiting Mobile Syrup. Please get on it!

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@Steve-O
Oh i knew about the ram.. i just think the telus guy was trying to make it sound like it had an upgraded processor from the n1

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I have a rooted Desire on Telus, and it is awesome. The wifi tethering, apps, nav, GP, its all more than I imagined. Just waitin for Froyo to show up.

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