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HTC Desire vs N900. First impressions
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dreadnought
2010-05-03 , 21:43
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I've been a n900 user since December and have absolutely loved using the device, but I finally decided to sell it on and get the desire. Main reasons were that the two things that I needed most on a phone - a decent email and Twitter client - were never really addressed on the n900. I waited and waited but no third party apps were developed that were really up to the job.
I'm enjoying the desire: the screen, the speed, the sheer number of apps for thing like Twitter or email and the Sense UI is very slick.
But there's also a lot I'm missing from the n900: you can't beat the QWERTY keyboard on the Nokia and the touchscreen one on the Desire is no substitute. No real Skype integration on android is also disappointing and the lack of support for video codecs such as xvid means I have to convert a lot of my videos to watch them.
Still think the n900 is probably the most groundbreaking device out there, but in the end the way I was using phones changed and the n900 didn't change with it. Still love it and really hope that it's a success because the mobile phone world could turn out to be a pretty depressing place if only Google and Apple dominate the market and there's noone out there trying to do things a little different.
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