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That's it, I have enough of my HTC Desire. Honestly, I have. What do I expect from a phone? Simple dialing, easily visible and audible call status feedback, easy access to my contacts AND a battery which lasts a few days. In none of these categories my HTC comes even close to my old Ericsson mobile phone.

Initially I ignored these shortcomings, because I was impressed by the amount of cool apps. I was especially hooked to social apps like foursquare, facebook, twitter ... But as I grow more and more tired of social networks, I more and more miss decent phone functionality. The following is just an extract of the annoyances I am experiencing:

• it is unintuitive and takes two clicks to get to the contact list from the main phone screen
• there is no indication on an existing contact of where it is stored. When you create a new contact you can chose where to store it (SIM, phone, Google), but you cannot directly see on an existing contact where it is stored.
• it takes longer to establish a connection with my HTC than it used to take with my Ericsson and the call quality is worse (admittedly this is subjective). During call establishment there is no feedback at all. No sound and - even worth - the screen goes blank. I assume a energy saving measurement, but this is highly annoying when you start wondering whether anything is happening at all
• random phone crashes and phone lock ups
• and the absolutely worst - battery time. In the beginning I at least got 24 hours out of the phone. Today the battery is empty before I head home from work.

I still like some of the apps, but I don't think these apps outweigh all of these problems?

--Hardy