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HTC Desire or Desire HD or Inspire?

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ChaoZ

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I'm currently looking at used phones on ebay and narrowed it down to these three. I like the Desire for its comparable features and its smaller size, however I can't find the GSM version at a decent price.

The other two phones aren't that much more expensive than the Desire. From what I read they're nearly identical with the exception to battery life. The Inspire uses more battery, but I'm not sure if it's only when using 4g. I plan to just use it on wifi. The Inspire slightly cheaper also.

Which should I get?
 
I would say the desire is out of the running because it won't be getting the gingerbread update (doesn't have enough ram to run it)
 
If you're looking at the Inspire, does that mean you're on AT&T? Assuming you are cause the inspire uses GSM/HSPA 850/1900 bands only I believe, so it's out for t-mo unless you just plan to do edge.

If you get the desire/desire HD.. both are the same to me, just my opinion - from a canadian NAM version - bell, rogers, same 850/1900 bands - you can knock down the price of your monthly plan by choosing the $10/$15 monthly dumbphone plan (depending on your plan type), unlimited. The Desire Z and whatever else other than Nexus work with this

With the inspire you won't be able to do this because the IMEI is already on ATT's logbooks.

But overall all three phones are the same thing personally to me, it's like comparing c2d 8300 vs 8400. Get a DZ if you want something different from the mix.

You can always manually enable/disable 3g/hspa if you flash custom roms, saving the battery.
 
The jump from Desire to Desire HD is huge for performance. Vanilla Desire (I've still got one) has an 'old' adreno 200 gpu, as well as a 65nm(I think) processor. Desire HD/ Inspire are 45nm cpus with areno 205's, they are VERY much more powerful than 200's. True the HD battery life is probably the worst ever, but that can be fixed with an aftermarket battery. Not sure why htc desided to stick such a huge screen and beefy chip with a 1200mah battery.
Hope that helps.
 
makken said:
I would say the desire is out of the running because it won't be getting the gingerbread update (doesn't have enough ram to run it)
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Thought HTC went back on that and said it would be getting a GB update, after they removed some of the Sense bloat to make it fit?
 
It's not the RAM, it's the ROM space. Not enough storage for GB without removing stuff from it. As far as I know, GB is already legitimately available for the original desire, but you have to manually install it.
 
stormkroe said:
It's not the RAM, it's the ROM space. Not enough storage for GB without removing stuff from it. As far as I know, GB is already legitimately available for the original desire, but you have to manually install it.
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Yes, the original desire does not have enough ROM space to install gingerbread + sense (my mistake on the ram part). There is a work around with aftermarket ROMs if you use an ext formatted SD card, which installs part of the OS on the SD card; but HTC won't consider this for an official upgrade; nor will they consider stripping out sense and doing a vanilla gingerbread update.
 
makken said:
Yes, the original desire does not have enough ROM space to install gingerbread + sense (my mistake on the ram part). There is a work around with aftermarket ROMs if you use an ext formatted SD card, which installs part of the OS on the SD card; but HTC won't consider this for an official upgrade; nor will they consider stripping out sense and doing a vanilla gingerbread update.
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Just did some Googling.
They released a manual GB update for the Desire on the developer channels, on non-North American Desires only.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/01/htc-desire-gingerbread-update-available-but-you-have-to-really/

First off, if you own the North American variant of this handset then you're out of luck. Likewise, Japanese, South Korean and some German handsets are also excluded. Still here? Okay then, but you might not like what comes next. We already knew that either the Sense UI or some pre-installed apps would be cleared out to make room in the Gingerbread house, but now it seems the update is so unstable that HTC is only prepared to release it as a ROM via its developer site
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Course, since the Desire wasn't released on a carrier directly in the United States, its safe to bet that most people who picked it up are likely technically inclined, and have already rooted and installed the ROM of their choice on it. Which run Gingerbread fine.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-desire-cdma
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-desire-gsm
 
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