Comments on: 25 Reviewers Announced – Telstra HTC Desire Social Review

By: Scott Sheedy

Scott Sheedy — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:27:16 +0000

Congratz to the winners. Nice work – and good luck in your social experience with the mozart!

For anyone interested my Samsung Focus hopefully will arrive from the US about the time these winners get their phone. Feel free to see my progress and info regarding unlocked US imported WP7 handsets, eg the Focus; here:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1575615

Oh – and don’t forget to check out the new Telstra Data plans. They equate to better value now than US data plans for WP7 devices. Nice Telstra !

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:51:41 +0000

Will be interesting to see what the opinion of this handset is.

By: Damè Damjanovski

Damè Damjanovski — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:05:41 +0000

Hi Jim,

Sorry about that, my WordPress blog had been hacked (despite being on the latest release, and having all comments moderated through intense debate) and one of the comments was linking through to a malicious site (not my site itself), regardless, I have migrated it all across to SquareSpace which is now clean and clear.

Sorry again for the inconvenience.

By: Brendan - [Your Community Manager]

Brendan - [Your Community Manager] — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:53:07 +0000

Hi Jim, Thanks for reporting this. We notified Damien late last week.
Cheers, Brendan

By: Brendan - [Your Community Manager]

Brendan - [Your Community Manager] — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:10:18 +0000

Hi Ian, Please see this post for you the answer to your question.
http://exchange.telstra.com.au/2010/05/01/htc-desire-gps-software-released-voice-search-added/
Cheersm Brendan

By: SimB

SimB — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:24:39 +0000

First off, congratulations to the winners. I didn’t expect to get in as I am not much of a social tweet, so I had already picked up a HTC Desire before I was notified, but any info from reviewers on data usage would be great.

I have also added to a thread on Whirlpool – Telstra data usage meter Innacurate, http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1430601

I picked up a HTC Desire on Thursday 13/5 and by Saturday the usage on a 200mb data plan is 67%. I have logged a customer enquiry but this really has turned what was an exciting experience into one of caution, especially with recent media stories of 10k charges for using a soccer game.

I had purposely not used the phone data features since I got it on Thursday so I could first check how it worked on the weekend to avoid this. Once I saw the data usage I immediately tried to turn all data features off but I couldn’t be sure so I just turned the phone off.

Not saying I didn’t over react – but instead of enjoying my phone and working out its features I have spent half a Sunday reading forum threads to understand the plan is pro-rated! You’d think this could be explained at purchase (Telstra shop) or similar.

Also, it does seem there are lots of issues with excessive data usage and not much assistance on this front from Telstra except to sell more data packs. Please let us know what you think.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:59:55 +0000

Stephen, I’m one of those reviewers looking at the business / social crossover. About half my time is on geek-for-hire stuff, half for media stuff, and I carry a MacBook Pro pretty much everywhere. I’m interested to see just how much of the day I can get through without having to open up the laptop.

By: Jim Orton

Jim Orton — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:59:30 +0000

Congrats to all the winners.
Both my home & work laptops detected this guys weblink as a serious virus threat.
Damian Danjanovski http://www.refinedgeek.com
Has anyone else experienced this?
Whats going on Telstra, people like this shouldn’t be allowed entry to these kind of comps.
Damian, if your not aware of this; maybe your website has been hacked?

By: Adam Mann

Adam Mann — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:08 +0000

congrats to all the winners…..lucky bugga’s!!

if it so happens that one of the reviewers isn’t up to the snuff, can i be the first on the standby list? I’d love to have a good play with one of these phones, heck i’ll even give it back after the two weeks! Just curious to know how good these phones are…..something you can’t do in a busy T-Life store….

take care….and congrats again to the winners!

Adam

By: Helen Perris

Helen Perris — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:13:17 +0000

I’m one of the business/social crossover reviewers. Can’t say anything yet though as I’m still waiting on my handset!