Oh..quick..guess what ?

..i got my HTC Desire HD smartfone about a week ago. been keeping really quiet about it coz i wanted to play around with it first before giving my opinions..

well...so far, so damn good ah..!! actually, IMHO, it's probably one of the better if not the best smartfones to have come out from HTC. i'm still having loads of fun exploring all it's capabilities. My only gripe, err well, got two actually...is 1) the battery life really sucks. lasts about a day or less when i use the browser actively, with social networking in between, make a few calls here & there etc..wish it would at least last 2 days or more. even when i switch off the internet connection and all background auto-sync processes, i could perhaps stretch the standby to about 3 days max. well..with a few sms messaging and a few calls done & maybe played a short game or two... 2) the battery & the SIM/SD covers look a bit retarded and not really compatible with the rest of its body, not exactly an engineering marvel i would say..but what the heck..the android 2.2 with the HTC sense UI still amazes me..

but...otherwise, i like the big 4.3 inch screen, the display bright & sharp enough despite being an LCD and not an AMOLED screen, the 8MP camera took really good pics, plays videos wonderfully but the speakers were a bit of a letdown...even when volume is pushed to the max. guess using a headphone would resolve this. switching between apps was really fast, the browser connection and downloads were just as good too. i'm still learning to use the navigation app, so cant really tell how good that is yet..but i'm sure it'll work quite well..

anyway, if you guys have a bit of money to throw around (like about rm 2299..), you might want to go check this phone out. i hear the demand is much much more than the supply can handle at this moment.. so discounts may not be so freely given for now..

but if you are short of cash and yet still want something that looks just as good as the htc desire hd plus having similar hardware specifications, then check this out instead..