The HTC Desire, the Android phone that seems to be EVERYONE’S number one choice of next-new-phone, has finally appeared on T-Mobile UK’s site along with a top-tier £35-a-month tariff package for new customers.
Who decided we’re all happy to pay £35 a month for phones? A CURSE ON YOU, whoever you were. Probably someone at Apple.
Of course, there’s no such thing as “FREE” – over the course of 24 months you’ll end up paying T-Mobile a staggering £840 for the privilege of owning a Desire. And much more if you forget to cancel the insurance.
A cheaper option is available, though – you can get a Desire through T-Mobile for only £10-a-month, as long as you don’t mind paying an up-front fee of £164. For that, you get 100 minutes and 100 texts per month, along with the all-important “unlimited internet” bundle – a total of £404 over the course of the 24-month contract.
Or you can do any of the above. And… if you’re locked into a contract with another operator, you can pick up a SIM-free model from Play, where it can be had for £439.
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HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
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pauljriley
/ March 22, 2010Have discovered that the HTC Desire is only available from today for NEW customers, existing customers who have been waiting months to upgrade to this handset will have to wait until Friday.
Now it does not take a genius to realise that by friday the first shipment of HTC Desires that T-Mobile had received will have all gone, I would also hazard a guess that the next shipment will have gone to new customer who will have pre-ordered them.
So the long a the short of it is, if you are an existing customer and are desperate to get one of these phones you have four options.
1. Start a new contract with T-Mobile and get the Desire, but end up running your existing contract along side the new contract until it runs out.
2. Wait until the other five networks, all of whom are scheduled to get the HTC Desire at the beginning of April, and switch network.
3. Wait, probably for the next two months, until T-Mobile get stock that existing customers can get their hands on.
4. Wait for the HTC Supersonic to hit the streets.
I suppose for the time being I’ll just have to sulk.
EURODROID 00001
/ March 22, 2010Just be glad you didn’t sign up to a 24-month contract with an HTC Magic last September :(
I’m having to console myself by imagining what’s going to be revealed at Mobile World Congress 2011.