Why I chose HTC Desire over iPhone?

This blog is about my experience with HTC Desire and my reasons for choosing HTC Desire over iPhone.

Today I am going to share some of my experiences with my HTC Desire and some of its cool features which I have used recently to my advantage, hope it helps you as well.

People have often asked me the question as to why I chose HTC Desire over iPhone.

My answer was simple: HTC Desire is not iPhone, but a better version to iPhone.

Firstly, IPhone runs on Mac OS, whereas HTC is powered by Android Operating system. With Android OS and Android market 60% of the stuff is free, whereas in Apple Market there is hardly any stuff you will find free, most of the things are chargeable.

Secondly, HTC is a multi-tasking phone compared to iPhone. In iPhone you can runs only one task at a time, whereas in HTC you can run several tasks at a time. For example, you have your browser on one side, music on the other, antivirus running in the background and navigation panel running side by side.

OK! you might ask what the use of such multi-tasking when you can only see one screen at a time. Point taken, now consider this, I was travelling to south London in an unknown place by bus and I did not knew how to reach the location. I had a copy on my email and I used the browser to search the exact address using Google maps.

Now what I did was, I kept the browser window open and pressed Home button on my HTC Desire, that meant my browser window is not closed and I could go to another application. I used Google Maps to see my location and scrolled through the maps and found my destination and started following my location on the Map. At this moment, I kept on pressing the Home button to locate the exact position and as soon as I saw that the Navigator is showing the exact spot where I had to reach. I alighted from the bus. And you know what, it was super correct. I alighted at the correct spot without knowing or asking anyone where to alight or the stop name. Sometimes it’s very difficult not to know the stop names or the indicators in the bus are not working or you just might miss the stop.

To me HTC saved my day...hope this trick would save your day as well. To use this trick, you need to download, Navigator or Google Maps on you HTC from Android Market. Ideally is already installed along with the browser. Again the browser can open multiple windows.

The above is one such incidence. Here is another one. In blackberry or iPhone the emails use Push technology i.e. only when you click on the mails they would not download. In Blackberry, it only downloads after every one hour, but in HTC Desire, the mails come instantly and they notify you as soon as you receive any mail in your In-box. A very handy tool when it comes to important emails to be received on time. This particular facility is so handy, that I simply picked up HTC without any trouble.

Another feature of HTC Desire is its sleek design, which at par with iPhone and offers 5 megapixel camera. Compared to iPhone the music may not be that great but it is alright. Another feature which HTC has given in its Desire edition is FM Radio. Although many people may not think this as handy, but trust me you cannot listen to the same music again and again for a long period of time. Even though I have of 5000 tracks of music, yet I want to listen something else on that particular day, which may not be present on my mobile. IPhone users may say that you can view YouTube Videos on iPhone, but so are the users of HTC. YouTube Videos are readily viewable on HTC Desire itself.

There are many more feature which I will reveal as we go along, for the time being...it is Good Bye...Good Night...Adios...Shabba Kher and God Bless.

Thanks for reading...Rohan.