Book Guide And Product View : Android Smart Phone 2011

Monday, 28 February 2011

Review is from: HTC Desire Sim Free Mobile Phone - Mocha (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I can not recomend this Android phone enough.
To be honest I wanted an iPhone but this was cheaper in the short and long run so I thought I'd give it a try.
To begin with I hated it! It wasn't intuitive like an iPhone, it seemed complex and I thought I couldnt load my iTunes onto it. I had a week to return it, which I planed to do and upgrade to the iPhone, but after a week of fiddling around and playing with it (which you won't be able to stop doing) I started to see it's potential.

I have had it a month now and it still amazes me every day!
Now I'll save you alot of time and bother by recomending some apps. If you want to Sync your iTunes onto it you have a few choices, doubleTwist (desktop and phone app)which is free (but personally I found it very faulty), or some paid apps all around a couple of quid (but worth it!), after trying a couple (you can uninstall paid apps VIA ANDROID MARKET/downloads on your phone within 24 hours if you dont like them and you won't get charged)I found iSyncr by far the best, its under £2 and you don't have to download anything onto your PC/MAC it even has a step by step set up guide.
Please note, some iTunes music is ''protected'' and won't sync to anything non Apple, this is Apple's fault, no-one elses! But to be fair not many are proteced. (If you want to check your albums, in your iTunes library right click on the album and left click on get info. If it sais Purchased AAC file it will sync to an Android, if it sais Protected AAC file it won't.)


The music player on the phone is OK but leaves alot to be desired, again I tried a good few but found 'Music PlayerPro' (also under £2) to be by far the best! Even better than an iPod. Or if your a cheapskate the best free one in my opinion was '3' cubed player.
Amazon MP3 app will allow you to download songs and albums directly to your phone just like an iPhone with iTunes store. (But you must enable '1-click' on your Amazon account online first)
There are hundreds of fantastic APPs on the Android Market and about half are free! You can even get antivirus free.
But what really sets this phone apart from the iPhone is the abbility to customize it. You have 5 home screens (one in the middle and two each side you can slide too and you can add/remove and move around any shortcuts you want!
Put the buttons where they suit you, you can also have widgets (the clock/weather in the picture is a widget) E.G. you can have a list of web page bookmars on one, a giant analog clock on another, a whole month calander on another, or just fill a page with app buttons or combine buttons an widgets, it's entirely up to you!

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