HTC has pushed out a medium-scale update to its HTC Desire HD, tweaking a few features and fixing the odd bug. Of most interest is an update to the Desire HD’s camera, which users are reporting is now much quicker in operation – with improved HD recording as well.
The 40MB update is NOT the Gingerbread release, but does bring the Desire HD up to Android 2.2.1.
Anecdotal evidence from MEN ON FORUMS claims that the Desire HD also seems to run generally a little faster after the update. Although that might just be the brandy talking.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
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?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
deadite66
/ December 27, 2010it also stops rooting apps like visionary.
Anonymous
/ December 28, 2010It doesn’t stop AndExplorer. That’s the one I use for root.
Dougster
/ December 27, 2010Cant remember if it done it in the past as I was using rockplayer, but ALL video now lists and plays with standard player.
Camera rapid.
Bristolboy
/ December 27, 2010There is also an update for the original HTC Desire.
stephen
/ December 27, 2010its definetly allot faster and fixed my htc news ap which stopped working.
Rynardt Spies
/ December 28, 2010My HTC Desire HD’s battery life dropped through the floor after this update. I can barely get half a day without even using the device! What is going on?
Gary C
/ December 28, 2010It’s probably automatically checking the weather in San Francisco every two minutes.
Rynardt
/ January 20, 2011Hi,
After the update, the Android System started using 50% of the battery. I reset the phone to factory settings. The update stayed in place however the battery now lasts longer than a day! Problem must have been caused by a conflict between an app and the update.
Bobthq
/ December 30, 2010The new software fixed the lag of the phone too (problem with /init taking all the resources)
matthew
/ January 1, 2011where can i get the version of 2.2.1 ? im from asia
cserba
/ February 24, 2011Where can I find this upadte. Can somebody link me an url. Thank you