HTC Desire review from TechRadar UK's expert reviews of Mobile phones. Update: read our Desire HD and HTC Desire S full reviews to see if the older version still stacks up. After unleashing the massively impressive HTC Legend, its bigger brother, the HTC Desire, is here - faster, bigger and more powerful and still packing the Android punch. It might be the Nexus One rebadged, but this is a behemoth of a phone in its own right; has HTC tried to do too much? We reviewed a Desire from T-Mobile, which is first in line to offer the phone on UK release, but we also checked out our findings from another Desire review unit straight from HTC, to really find out how it compared to the competition. While the Legend was all about style and functionality in one tidy package - the HTC Desire takes a slightly different approach. Instead of the gorgeous aluminium chassis, we're given a slightly more low-key brown case and a huge 3.7-inch OLED capacitive touchscreen.
Also read: 15 best mobile phones in the world today Also read: 15 best mobile phones in the world today. Improve battery time. 10 Ways To Increase HTC Desire Battery Time. On the first day I got my Telstra HTC Desire, I wanted to see how the device would perform in my daily regime with the default settings. The only other apps that I downloaded and also ran throughout the day were Seesmic (Twitter Client) and Battery Widget (to monitor battery status on homepage). I took the HTC Desire off the charger at 6am and was dismayed to find that by 9:13am battery life had dwindled to 60%! Had a feeling it was to do with the background services that were pulling updates down from Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds etc, but left them running to see how long it would last with the unaltered settings.
At 6pm, exactly 12 hours from time of full charge, it died. And I thought the iPhone was bad!! Now that the ‘out-of-box-settings’ day was over, I was looking forward to improving HTC Desire battery performance since many of my online friends were experiencing far better battery times. After some tweaks at dawn this morning, things are looking up battery wise. HTC Desire: tips to boost battery life. « Welcome to the Three Blog. We’ve spotted a number of you talking about the battery life of the HTC Desire, and I thought this might be of interest. We had a little play with the phone to work out how to make the battery last as long as possible – take a look at our list below. Depending on how much you’re using your phone, we’ve found that a combination of these can extend your battery life by a good couple of hours. 1.
Disable ‘Wireless Network Positioning Services’ – Go to ‘Menu’, then ‘Settings’, then ‘Location’ and finally ‘Use Wireless Networks’ where you can choose to turn off the position service. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. None of these are compulsory remember, and the battery life of any phone will always be dependent on your own individual usage. Desire battery consumption.
You recently wrote us regarding your phone battery and back cover. We have no release date a more powerful battery and back case for HTC Desire at the moment. Please keep an eye on our website over the next 30 days for any new accessories in buy section. Also please try this action to save baterry life in your device. 1. For the purpose to optimize the battery use, you may turn off the none-use application or software. 2. . (1) WiFi - This feature consumes power so if you are not using it you can easily switch it off (and turn it on when you want) (2) GPS takes up a lot of power - if you use GPS we suggest keep the device on charge (car charger and cradle available from HTC accessory store) and close the application when you have finished (3) Data connection - data connection takes up a lot of power so if you are not using it you can easily switch it off (5) Push mail - scheduling the certain time for incoming Push mail Hope this information answers your question.
Best regards, HTC Desire S specifications and reviews. Battery life. One of the main complaints about Desire users is the battery finishing quickly. From smartphone experience, I’d say ideal battery life on any smartphone (which obviously the Desire is) is about a day. That’s to say if you need to charge your battery every night then it’s pretty standard. This isn’t your standard phone which might play a few MP3s, receive a few calls and possibly view a couple of low-quality webpages on a small browser. No, the Desire is a powerhouse full of emails, full web browsing, media playing, wireless connections, navigation, high quality video playback, gaming and a whole lot more! If your battery is getting drained a lot quicker than that, then here’s a good few tips on how to make it last to the end of the day: Remove your Task Killer.
Seriously, the Desire doesn’t NEED one and I’ll be writing up another post about them after this to explain in detail why. Extra Tips Use a widget to easily toggle settings. Feedback. HTC DESIRE-Tips to improve battery life | DJ Leekee Online. We’ve all got our brand new spanking HTC Desire mobiles and are busy playing with them, installing new apps and generally showing them off (even though the Apple fanboys wont even look at them cos they know they are better ;) ) But all this playing can drain the battery quite a bit and i did struggle to get mine to last more than one day before having to recharge.
So I have come up with ten rules to ensure the battery does infact last longer and hopefully to cover you for a full day! A lot of them might seem pretty obvious but when added together do really make a difference! 1 ) Avoid live wallpapers 2 ) Try and have darker, non-animating wallpapers 3 ) Set the screen timeout to a maximum of 1 minute 4 ) Turn down the screen brightness 5 ) Always switch off Bluetooth 6 ) Don’t use GPS unless necessary 7 ) Disable always-on mobile data 8 ) Limit use of widgets 9 ) Limit use of streaming apps 10) Set a reasonable frequency for background updates Like this: Like Loading...
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