What’s going on with these HTC Desires. One minute we are being told they will be available on a certain day and five minutes later we are told they will not be. Frustrating or what?
Yesterday Clove Technology released the following statement:
We have heard this afternoon, 26 March, that the launch of the HTC Desire is likely to slip back to the 7th April.
This is of course not the news ANY of us wished to hear and we as a reseller are as frustrated as you the customer about this delay.
This will affect ALL UK unlocked stock of these devices, so no other reseller will receive their shipments any quicker. Please be aware some may simply not update their website as quickly about this issue, so do not let this confuse you.
We will be working with HTC and their UK distribution to keep you informed of progress on the situation and will of course be pushing to get the stock as soon as we can.
We are already receiving a huge number of emails to clarify the status on individual orders, which is putting a huge strain on our resources, so please do not unless essential email for updates. We will endeavour to give everyone updates as soon as we get them by emails such as this.
This is the reason I think it’s all gone belly up (unless I have got it wrong)!
It would appear that it wasn’t until Friday morning (26th) that the final ROM was confirmed by Google. The HTC Desire review units (of which we have one) were re-flashed and then despatched Friday afternoon to bloggers and reviewers.
This means that all the HTC Desires that are currently sitting in a warehouse somewhere in the UK waiting to be sent to distributors etc need re-flashing. These were due to be on sale on Monday 29th but its going to take a few days to get the new ROMs on all the units.
T-Mobile however have the HTC Desire for sale now as they have their own ROM on the device and this was authorised by Google clearly at an earlier date.
I just tried to buy a Desire from the T-Mobile website and I got as far as paying for it and there was no mention of any supply issues.
So if you want a HTC Desire over the next few days you only have two options. Option one is to get it on T-Mobile. Option two is to beat up Matt and nick his one!
If we do get any developments we will be sure to let you know.
Did you like the Unboxing video? If you would like to discuss the device with us please feel free to join us on the forum.
Posted by: James
Admob just put out another of their oh-so-interesting reports, this time around looking at year-over-year mobile internet traffic from three main categories: (1) feature phones, (2) smartphones, and (3) MIDs. Two things really struck me as amazing. First of all, MIDs enjoyed the largest (percentage) growth as a category, probably because of their limited use and emergence as a product category.
Well to be honest the title of the post may not be doing justice to the video, it’s a bit more than just an unboxing video!
I’ve been waiting patiently to get my hands on the HTC Desire since I saw it just before its launch at MWC last month. I previously had the Goolge Nexus One which I loved but the HTC Desire seemed to want to take Android to a whole new level with the customisation and Sense UI that HTC added on to it.
The HTC Desire is the second of the four handsets announced by HTC at MWC to actually go on sale. The Desire not far behind it’s smaller brother, the HTC Legend.
There is perhaps a lot of hype around the HTC Desire so I’m sure we are all hoping that it will live up to our expectations. I’m going to spend the next week using the HTC Desire as my main phone and I will be putting together the full review along the way.
For now have a look at my rather lengthy introduction to the HTC Desire in the video below. Hopefully I’ve covered enough in there to whet your appetite for more so please do make use of the forum to post your comments or questions and let me know what you would like me to cover in more detail.
It looks like we won’t have to wait long for the Nokia N8 (previously referred to as the Nokia N8-00) to become official as one of Engadget’s trusted sources has revealed that the Finnish company will make its announcement sometime in mid-April. There’s still no confirmation though if the leaked photos of a purported Nokia touchscreen phone that surfaced earlier this week are indeed that of the Nokia N8, but it certainly lines up nicely with this sequence of events. Needless to say, if this latest bit of news is true, then Eldar Murtazin’s prediction of a September release for the Nokia N8 and its new Symbian^3 platform might actually be pretty accurate as well.
[source Engadget]
This is the one we have been waiting for!
The HTC Desire is now in our possession and over the coming days Matt will be posting the unboxing video and also putting together an in depth and extensive review of the device.
We must however point out a couple of things regarding the Desires out there at the moment, although we certainly do not wish to discredit anyone else’s reviews.
We have been informed by a reliable source that some HTC Desires have been out for review for several days now, but these devices did not come from the same source as ours. These early versions did not contain the final ROM that we have been waiting for and I am reliably informed that those devices will have essential features missing. They have also had problems with the OS crashing and serious battery issues which is clearly down to the fact that Google had not completed the ROMS when the devices were shipped.
The batch of HTC Desires that we have had ours from have been in the UK for over a week now but were unable to be released pending the flashing of the final ROM. Its been a frustrating week waiting for Google to authorise the ROM but now its done the fun can begin.
Stay tuned to tracyandmatt.co.uk over the weekend as we will be bringing you some demo videos as well as the usual stuff. Please do interact with us via the forum too!
Posted by: James
Here we have the Samsung B3410 or Delphi as it is otherwise known. This is a very different attempt at mobile phone technology from Samsung as they have chosen to join in with other manufacturers such as Nokia by integrating a full slide out QWERTY keyboard for ease of use; Samsung as a company have been manufacturing mobile phones for many years now and every year have impressed us more and more with their unique looks and little quirks that make Samsung mobiles so intriguing on the eye.
Does the all new approach by Samsung appeal to you? And will it live up to expectation? Let’s find out…
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Those nice folks at Clove Technology are giving away a BlackBerry Bold 9700!
BlackBerry smartphones have been the device of choice for business users for some time now. Their versatility, reliability and multitude of functions have ensured that, despite the increasing number of smartphones in the market, the BlackBerry Bold remains the leading smartphone for business.
From MPs Tweeting from the House of Commons to the BBC newsreader beating a technology breakdown by reading the headlines from her iPhone, there are many stories of interesting and innovative business uses of smartphones. Now Clove Technology is compiling a top 10 list of innovative business uses of a smartphone. Tell us your example of smartphone innovation in the business environment to be in with the chance of winning a new BlackBerry Bold 9700 and goodie bag of BlackBerry accessories.
Head on over to clove.co.uk to enter the competition. It’s well worth it. Both Matt and myself use the BlackBerry 9700 and we love the efficiency of the device. If you have not read my review of the 9700 you can check it out here.
Posted by: James
Acer seem to be releasing new handsets at a rate of one every three to four weeks. Here we have the latest handset from Acer, the neoTouch P300 which follows on form the E101 and E200 that we reviewed last month.
The P300 is a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 handset with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. There don’t seem to be many Windows Mobile handsets being released at the moment, perhaps some manufacturers holding back after the Windows Phone 7 Series announcement last month at MWC. Acer don’t seem to be holding anything back though as this is the third such handset to be released this year.
The P300 that we have here is a pre-release model. It’s final hardware and ROM but, as you’ll realise when you see the video below, it’s not final retail packaging. You can pre-order the P300 from Clove Technology and we have them to thank for managing to get their hands on the device so early and helping us get the exclusive on the unboxing.
We’ve only got the neoTouch P300 for a day so we wont be writing the full review just yet. I’ve tried to go in to a little more detail in the video below but we’ll have full review for you once the retail version becomes available.
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