I did

what network are you on?

O2 but I can move to any now.

If I remember rightly O2 has a service available through the website that allows you to back such things up, not the music obviously but I assume you have to run all of that through itunes anyway.

If it's still available i think its called bluebook or something?

Thanks.

I'll take a look into it.

If chasing specs and being able to claim you have a dual core phone is important to you get an Android device. You might be able to save some money as well.

If you want the best overall experience get iPhone 4. Broader content, applications, games, accessories, compatibility. Generally a smoother experience.

I have a Desire HD. Really good phone. Not had any of the battery issues that people seemed to have been affected by. Screen is very responsive, the array of apps is superb now and the amount you can customize the Android devices is superb.

To the fella above, isn't it Apple who claim to be constantly at the forefront with the Iphone 4? What with the screen and all that jazz. If your chasing specs and are all about the brand surely you will stump the extra to get the Iphone 4?

No one has ever brought an Apple product for specs alone. Apple's competitions nearly always look better on a spec sheet. The N96 was better than a iPhone on paper.

Apple does place more emphasis about overall experience, of course specs can enhance that experience (like the display, which is hugely important). Apple will for example talk about battery life, but they will never really talk about the RAM in their phones, as one example. Whereas in the Android community and vendors commonly like to talk about RAM, clockspeed, overclocking etc.

HTC try and sell the experience with their HTC Sense features. I would say part of that is why HTC are one of the most successful Android vendors. But it is harder for them because they aren't fully in control of their own platform.

And many, many people far smarter than me know just like the desktop era of computing it always was and always will be all about software. Good software can sing on mediocre bad hardware. Bad software can slow good hardware to a crawl.

So software is where all the interesting stuff will happen and where all the advances will take place.

My advice to anyone would be when making a decision is to value real word performance and usability over a list of specs. And of course that will be a personal decision. After all these are far more personal, intimate devices than any other general purpose computing device which has gone before.

That's not right at all. Apple isn't about the user experience, it's just about marketing. They've successfully established a fan base and somehow made everyone believe the iphone was and still is the best phone in the world. In reality it probably never was and it is now more than showing it's age. I mean the icons as the only option for the home screen? They are the phone equivalent of the Wii, successful because of it's marketing and not it's performance IMO. Look at their recent adverts, which are bordering on criminal. "Without an iphone you've not got the ibook store". No, perhaps not, but with another phone you'd have Kindle which is far, far better. "Without an iphone you don't have an ipod in your phone" No, but you have a better quality media player with a different name. "Without an iphone you don't have an iphone" Well, quite. Making it a must have for the sheep is their main strength.

Apple's computers are the same. Very 'cool' but as a consumer purchase they are a choice of paying £350 more than you should be doing just for the perception that it's 'cool' and 'amazing' and 'better'.

Anyone having HTC Desire problems? For some time now I've had problems with it just re booting at will. It's been back to HTC once already and it's still doing it. So it's being picked up again tomorrow to go back to them.

If they don't sort it is there anything I can do? I registered the initial complaint before the 1 year warranty period was up. The fault wasn't rectified. Where do I stand on getting the fault sorted?

It's that bad It's putting me off getting another HTC again.

it is called bluebook, but watch out if you're doing anything you shouldn't, it keeps a track of your text messages (sent and recieved) unless you change the settings, a friend of mine got (deservedy) caught out when his other half found his history!