since I've been using this phone for a while,I had a doubt about the gorilla glass screen so I sent mail to HTC for confirmation and in reply they said the phone does not come with a gorilla glass I repeat it does NOT come with a gorilla glass, and many users are having issues with loose hinge mechanism,HTC confirmed the phone is made in such way intentionally ...even I don't like the hinge mechanism it seems very fragile
Desire z is already out of stock in india and there has been no news from HTC about new stock availability which has led many suppliers to believe that HTC have discontinued Desire Z in india. which is such a shame as it was launched this march only.
Really wanted to buy an android phone with qwerty slider and this was perfect but alas!!!
Recovery is still s-on and the fatal bug/problem with ÅÄÖ is not fixed, now this z-crap is finally dumped in the garbage bag!
Just bought it, battery was droppin low very quick in 2.2.2, since I updated the phone yesterday to 2.3.3, from a full charge, I played yesterday 2h 3D games, also downloaded APNdroid to stop 3Gdata connection, this morning the phone was at 65% of charge :D
desire or desire z which is better??
do they have video calling feature??
Thanks deo.. One last question, does a full charge can long last for a day with just surfing the net? Or can i wwatx a movie or two, in galaxy mina i can only watch 1 movie. Thats why im asking about the battery life.. Can someone enliguten me here please... Tia
Anonymous, 17 Jul 2011Can someone tell.me.about.its battery life. About how long it can.be.use.in full charge and ho... morehi,m using this fone since 4 months and found battery is quite good.you need not to worry for full day of havy use.
plz guys help me,i want to buy a phone with big screen and qwerty..main requirements are good camera,document editor,lots of typing and surfing.full flash support in browser.also which one is to be chosen as OS,symbian or android.also let me know if i can install jar,sis files in android without any hassles?can HTC desire Z fulfill my requirements?are the applications in android market free and can they all be installed irrespective of the android version?can this handset be updated over the air?what is the lowest indian market price of this handset?pls help me as soon as you can..
Can someone tell.me.about.its battery life. About how long it can.be.use.in full charge and how.long it is.need to charge.. Pls
AnonD-13835, 14 Jul 2011Yes! the official gingerbread update for HTC desire Z is now available, I just downloaded it@Johan: By the way, can you tell me where did you downloaded it?is it custom rom or official rom?
Updated to 2.3.3. My comment on news article:
So, i updated my phone an here are some benchmarks:
#Benchmark name, Android 2.2, Android 2.3, Increase
Benchmark Pi, 1307, 1409, +7%
Fps2D, 57.5, 57.5, 0%
Linpack for Android (single thread), 33.54183, 33.85933, +0.95%
Linpack for Android (multi thread), 28.848, 29,143166, +1%
Neocore, 57.63, 57.63, 0%
Quadrant Standard, 1512.66, 1350.33, -10,7%
First thing i like in new android is tabbed notification area. With Quick Settings tab i can manage my connections very fast and i don't need a widget anymore on my screen to manage these connections. For some reason HTC Picasa Web Albums process is crashing constantly, i mean all the time. I force close it and after a while it crashes again. About tests - all these test results are average of 6 runs and done after restart of system. Most of tests show a small increase of score but Quadrant somehow shows decrease of score. I'm not sure why. On android 2.2, Quadrant was above Nexus One and I was very happy about it, but on 2.3.3, it's about the same.
I am in Estonia and I got update number 242.405.2, not the same as mentioned in this article. This is the new update, there wasn't any yesterday.
One thing more about notification area Quick Settings. I had already one problem with connection to mobile data. I checked it and it started to connect to but something went wrong i guess and it said "Turning on..." and nothing happened. Then I tried to uncheck it and check it again to try again, but it wouldn't uncheck it. I had to use a widget to disconnect and connect again.
So, overall, I expected a lot more from this update and looks like HTC needs to do some more works on (atleast) that version. I really hope that atleast battery life gets a little bit better.
Guys update is arrived in holland so update friends!!!!!
Greetz
Dennis htc ,
thahapa, 12 Jul 2011Yes, rooting it is very worth it and has very little to no risk. Just go to cyanogenmod forums... moreIt is very easy to completely brick Z when trying to root, it is definetly NOT riskfree!
AnonD-13835, 14 Jul 2011Yes! the official gingerbread update for HTC desire Z is now available, I just downloaded itPlease, let us know how well it works. What has improved? What can be better?
Yes! the official gingerbread update for HTC desire Z is now available, I just downloaded it
Official 2.3 android for desire z available. I am from Lithuania.
in your opinion which is the best ROM to available for desire z?
Yes, rooting and flashing new roms is pretty much risk free, just make sure u read first, go to xda developers site.
Also overclocking allows you to underclock when the screen is off, improving battery life. The batterry lasts lomger now than the stock rom. Dont be worried about doing it as u wont regret it..
Yes, rooting it is very worth it and has very little to no risk. Just go to cyanogenmod forums and check it out.
super fast, smooth and overclocks to 1.5GHz :)
so many more possibilities.
moe, 08 Jul 2011hi ... please i am going to buy htc desire z but i want to know if i can root it and upgrade i... moresure u can root it! to do that u have to visit XDA developers forum. search it there.. even though i didn't root my desire z and waiting for the official 2.3 update! the risk of losing my phone kept me away from rooting it :(
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