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TELUS announces the HTC Desire HD is “coming soon”
Finally some confirmation about the upcoming HTC Desire HD in Canada! TELUS has thrown up a dedicated page on their site that states that Desire HD is now “coming soon”. No dates are given or price points. They have a bang-on description about the newest Android: “With a huge HD touchscreen, amazing speeds for gaming, apps, browsing and multiple device mobile Wi-Fi hotspot capability, the Android 2.2 powered HTC Desire HD will impress you.”
We recently posted a screenshot of a retail inventory system that showed $499.99 no-contract and a “street date” of February 10th. Best Buy came forward to us and said both we’re incorrect on the date and price and the information was “not factually accurate”. So… the good news is that the Desire HD is officially landing in Canada and “coming soon”… maybe in February or March.
More here at TELUS
(Thanks Byran!)
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Would’ve been a nice phone had it been released last Nov/Dec in time for the holidays. Wait for the Motorola Atrix instead.
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Yeah, I got tired of waiting and picked up the Desire for nearly nothing last November. Not disappointed though, great phone. The Desire HD should be awesome too.
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Completely agree ^^. Nothing beats the Atrix in the market. It will be AWESOME. The desire hd would have been great if it was released some time last year. It’s too late Telus and why didn’t you (Telus) the Atrix or the Bionic at least.
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FINALLY! I’ll be there the day it comes waiting!
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Battery.
Please please please put a 2000mAh battery in this thing. Just do it. Sick and tired of phones going RIP in 7-8 hours because I chose to browse or play a couple games while bored. The phone is a beast, don’t cripple it due to battery
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You can buy a pair (2) of 1600 mAh batteries including a charging base for about $12 on Ebay, I already ordered mine so I have it by the time the phone is released here.
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@Sam you should try a Galaxy S, with the latest update I am able to get a MINIMUM 20 hrs with wifi, bluetooth, and brightness set at max. My phone usually lasts around 30 hrs
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My experiences with three separate Galaxy S phones have been just awful battery wise.
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The new download speed is interesting, wonder if Telus will change premium for upgraded downloads.
Also, after Mobile World Congress, I suspect many others will have newer devices.
My opinion is wait for dual core’s that support either 14.4 MB or 21MB and have 2 core’s, they will have better battery life.
For the guy who get 20-30 hours on Galaxy S, wow, I have galaxy s and I get 8-9 hours with active use, having Bluetooth turned on with low screen bightness (still very bright).
If you have full signal/bars from your carrier, that will extend your battery.
I have 2-3 bars most of the day.
For anyone getting poor battery life, get extra battery(s), $ 12 on eBay!!!
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first off there is not a single phone out there that can reach 14.4MB download speeds. Now 14.4Mb download is quite possible which is actually more like 1.8MB download.
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@ brendon was it just those things on or were browsing and watching videos too? Because I just returned two Galaxy phones (one captivate, one vibrant) due to awful battery. Installing custom ROMs didn’t help. Also I learned I needed to cripple my smartphone to make it live. Don’t use live wallpapers – ahem this is why I bought the phone? Don’t use 3G use wifi mostly – so my 6GB plan is useless and I need to cancel it now? Don’t play videos or games on it – ahem why do people tout the hummingbird on it when you shouldn’t use its capabilities because battery will die soon.
Sorry that was long, but in the end battery was the one only reason for me to switch back to the iBore 4 after 6 months of fiddling. It’s been 27 hours of: surfing (around 3 hours of internet on 3g), 3 games and a couple hours of videos and rest standby and the phone is at 28%. I have more chances to win a Jackpot than see this from the galaxy.
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I like this phone. LCD screen suppose to extend battery use. Big screen. Good processor.
If one is looking for the fastest phone in market, this is not the one. However, it is still an above average phone.
If Telus price it below $99.99, it should get some market share.
My galaxy S battery is average. If i turn off data transfer, it last 2 days+ (with normal usage: phone, game, sms). If i leave data transfer on… i get 8 hours.
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I hope they release an AWS version of the HTC Desire HD for Wind. I <3 Wind with all my heart. Go Wind Go!!!!
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Man, I really hope the 500 dollar without contract price holds up. I am using desire now and can’t wait to change to this new phone. It came out Oct 19th, and if they can get it out in Feb, I consider that pretty good for Canada!
AWS version would be awesome! But seems like a long shot.
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$500.00 would be nice! I dunno though, the HD is a lot of phone. I’m thinking $549.99, but we’ll see.
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Some of you people are so blind. There is always something better coming down the pipe, and you can either bite the bullet, or spend your whole life waiting. Realistically, based on how long it took for the Desire HD to come to Canada, the Moto Atrix won’t be available until summer at least. Who wants to wait that long?
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Atrix will be launched on Bell Q1 of 2011
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What?… the atrix is coming out in march bud.
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You’re welcome Ian.
Also to be noted, im Bryan. May have typo’d my own name tho (Certainly wouldnt put that past me, lol)
For those saying wait… why? The dual cores wont really be that useful right now anyways, as apps and games have to be developed for them. I normally switch phones every year, so by the time an HTC dual comes out, ill be ready to swap. Until then, this phone is a proper beast, and i cannot wait to grab it!
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so what do I do with my Desire? =(
I guess I have no choice but to spend my 2.5 years with it.
Thank you TELUS for 3 year contracts
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Sell it, plenty of people looking for a replacement phone cuz they broke theirs or lost it while under contract. You could also do what I do, pay full price for every phone and have no contract, mind you I only do that cuz I get a new phone every 6 months or so. I generally spend the same as you would with a contract since I sell my 6mo old phones for about $100 loss, (or less) and I end up with the latest greatest shiny phone.
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Same here bud, I am locked in a 3 year contract with Telus as I wanted the Desire so bad and now the HD is already here. What to do
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The rumored release date for the Atrix is 1 month later than the rumored date for the Desire HD. I totally dislike Bell but they always come out with the better phones before Telus and Rogers… Check out how long it took Rogers and Telus to release the Galaxy S after Bell had it.
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@Grinch Your username is right, anyone who complains about 3yr contracts after getting substantial discounts for a phone because they can’t upgrade to a better one deserves it. Here are some tips:
1. Buy the phone you want at full price when it comes out. It doesn’t matter if you’ve signed a contract or not, they’ll still let you use it.
2. Can’t afford $500? Get a job that pays better. It;s expensive to be an early adopter since new cellphones come out just as fast as new computers.
3. Craigslist/Ebay. Just because you didn’t pay that much for your Desire (if anything at all) doesn’t mean someone else won’t buy it. Then you can use that to buy the latest phone you want. Sire, you lose a little money on each sale but you got to use it when it was new and that’s the price for wanting to upgrade every 6 months.
So suck it up, princess.
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So many i****s on this site – go to the XDA forums and they teach you how to condition your battery to get better life.
I don’t give a crap that the Motorola Atrix is a dual core.
I refuse to use a phone with Motoblur crap on it.
It’s rooted deep in the OS and is complete garbage for anyone wanting to modify their phones.
I will wait whatever time it takes for HTC to come out with their dual core phones.
I tried a Samsung Galaxy S – Hated it and with the 2.2 Froyo upgrade they messed a few things up.
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Bell’s Galaxy S second 2.2 update is great. But with Darky’s v9.1 Extreme Edition it’s the best phone I have ever used.
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People don’t always like to hear common sense it appears.
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I agree with Bert. HTC makes a significantly better smartphone than Motorola. Motoblur is complete garbage and anyone willing to shell out that kind of money for a phone just because it’s “dual core” is an i***t. What in the hell do 3/4 of smartphone users need with dual core 1GHz processors anyway? Half the people I deal with on a daily basis at work (wireless industry sales rep) can’t even figure out how to check their voicemail and we’re now talking about that kind of power in a phone? Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for it in the right hands, but I’ll wait until a more solid manufacturer adopts it before I cave for Motorola’s crap-a*s hardware with their crippling UI on it.
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I was just speaking to someone today talking about the same thing. I was asking for a friend’s opinion and he’s drooling over the dual core (and can make use of it) but immediately followed said drooling with, “I hate MotoBlur.”
That and it’s funny that the perception has changed so much since HTC was a once hated name (P4000 or S720 anyone?) for problem phones and while Motorola wasn’t a lot better, it was ok. Android seems to have cured a lot of HTCs problems though.
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I don’t understand why you would wait for so long for these carriers to release these devices!! These phones have been out for months in the US so just cross the border and go buy one!!!
For those people on Wind complaining about lack of devices, why not check out T-Mobile handset selection and just buy your phones from them!!! It costs only 10-15 bucks to unlock one of their phones!!
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I’ve learned from previously owning a Milestone that you can’t trust Motorola with updates … as long as you know you’re stuck with what you get then go ahead. Most likely they will lock the bootloader though.
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LOOKING SWEEET. Love HTC, keep it up HTC!
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Htc actually updates their devices unlike motorola (milestone 2.2 fiasco). If you like motobloat (blur), and want froyo for a long while, then maybe the atrix is for you. Now as for the desire hd, it’s missing two things I want in my next device, an amoled screen and a front facing camera other then those two things I think this phone is pretty good.
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I absolutely agree with the fact the new Desire HD is missing those two things.
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Anyone knows if there will be an unlocked version that will work with rogers?
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i totally agree with you Bert, Motoblur is the worst thing that motorola invented….HTC Sense way better !!!
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How much is a voice and data plan for no contract?Or do you have to have a voice data plan when you buy it with no contract?
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Hopefully selling my desire z soon so this better launch the 10th or earlier!!
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This would have been cool last year, glad I waited and getting the attrix obviously.
blurr can easily be fixed to a minimum
htc phones are nothing special,
90% + of people don’t hack their phones anyway and bootloader or not won’t change anyway, for the others, anything is still possible with the know how to.
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Is it just me or this phone already feel so old and not up to par with phones that is already out on the market? plus several others phones that is about to launch within few weeks too ?
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I dont get it, a better camera and bigger screen than the Nexus and Atrix and virtually all the other same specs. am i missing something, this seems like a great phone!
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ive just sent my new htc desire hd back, poorest reception ive ever run across and very poor battery life. im in the greater vancouver area on telus and the telus dealer admitted there 3g network is poor but ive had people with i phones on telus get 2-4 bars while i got no service? very nice features but i was missing too many calls.
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