HTC have just announced the desire HD. Looks to be an awesome phone. I think it's out in the next few weeks and will be a Vodafone exclusive for 2 months.

If your contract is almost up for renewal and you are looking at a smartphone then I would recommend taking a look at it. The last few HTC phones have been very good and the Android OS is excellent.

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Ok...to be honest it's hard to say what's done it. I've got Advanced Task Killer installed, but the wallpaper seems to make a difference. I had an gorgeous animated swirling galaxy but switched to an animated fireworks one recently and my battery life has improved further. Any pointless apps have been uninstalled.

I think the main thing is making sure you charge fully without using the first time (takes several hours), and then draining the battery completely before charging for the first few weeks.

It's between the Desire HD & Desire Z for me in the next month or so when I upgrade/ go new operator
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Oooooooh the Desire Z looks very nice.

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It doesn't help that the new Widows 7 phones don't appear to support flash and still uses a browser in internet explorer

What browser did you expect a Microsoft product to use?

Correct it doesn't support Flash, in fact most smart phones don't support full Flash*. It's far from a must have feature and in fact full flash has only really been available on a small number of the very high end Android devices since this Summer.

Most websites which use Flash have a HTML alternative. Games are a bit of a different story, but Windows Phone will have some impressive titles. Most video on the web is served up in straight H.264 for mobile devices which need it. And increasingly "flash" video is just H.264 served up with a flash wrapper around it.

IE on Windows Phone 7 is based on IE 7 engine, which although it needs an update isn't that bad in terms of standards support (although no where near as good as 8 and 9). Maybe I'm wrong and Flash will be a vital component of the web in a few years, but it's getting harder and harder to make a case. Long term no one is really committed to the technology aside from Adobe (who of course have an awful lot to gain if the Flash runtime becomes the sort of de-facto middleware for a variety of mobile devices).

I'm not on any sort of anti-Flash bandwagon, I just trying to be pragmatic.

* [size=85[url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180112/RIM_Adobe_still_hope_to_add_Flash_support_to_BlackBerry_devicesRIM, Adobe still hope to add Flash support to BlackBerry devices[/url: "What's really important... is to get it right. Flash and Flash video have very specific hardware, CPU and memory requirements,". [[iWhich is code for Flash has gargantuan hardware requirements[/i.
[url=http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/18/palm.hints.adobe.not.close.to.flash.on.webos/Palm doesn't know what's holding up Flash for WebOS[/url: When asked about the multiple delays, a representative said that Palm didn't 'know what the hold-up is' with getting it ready. Adobe itself hasn't commented on the state of the webOS version or of other platforms. [[ii.e. no time soon[/i[/size

I'll hazard a guess that unlike a competing companies phone, you will be able to install Opera right out of the box and Firefox if and when they develop for it.

Very likely, however Microsoft wont do it for you. Which is basically what "World of Redboy" was complaining about.

Well, had a look at the new Windows 7 mobile the HTC HD7. I'm not sure what to make of it. Comparing it to Android on something like the Samsung Galaxy S, I think I preferred the new Win 7 system, but why do they need a Mozart and Trophy version. Why can't you do it all from the same phone?