[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
Ok :D

I had Windows Mobile device before (Toshiba TG01). I bought it at the wrong time, just as Microsoft decided to discontinue the platform. I was frustrated with the poor resistive screen, the buggy software (even with custom ROMs) and terrible battery life, lasting 2 hours screen usage. (1000 mAh powering a 4.1" screen)

Anyway, I started looking towards Android which was growing big.

At MWC 2011, i saw HTC's lineup. I wasn't really impressed, and didn't feel the need to upgrade right away. But soon, I got really really frustrated when the main ROM chef (and only ROM chef) for our TG01 had his phones stolen. He discontinued ROM making. The TG01 became dead, and I decided it was time to upgrade!

The Desire S didn't catch my eye straight away. I came from a 4.1" monster (well 4.1" was considered huge last year!) I felt the the DS 3.7" would be tiny. But the phone got a lot of promotion in the UK upon release. I also signed up to a website dedicated for spotting good deals. I checked it everyday. At first, I wanted to get the original SGS first, as it had some nice price drops. In fact, it reached a promotion at one point, and I was about to buy it, but it ran out of stock. If you see some early threads from this forum, you will see they are from me (SGS vs Desire S). I was debating which to get.

Anyway, somehow set my mind to the DS at last. I read almost every review on the phone, and watched all YouTube videos. At one point, I was even refreshing the Google News search tool, to see when there were new articles on the phone. Also I set up a fake Facebook page pretending to be HTC, and said that the Desire S would be getting Sense 3.0.. (Yes, this was where I remember seeing Shrome there :p)

Anyway, this was around May. I had exams and stuff.. But after my exams, at the end of June, I began searching endlessly again for a good deal. Finally on 29th July, I found a brilliant 12 month deal, and placed my order! I was so excited, I remember... The phone arrived on 2nd August. The nights inbetween were restless... I couldn't sleep that night, and I was so excited to get the phone. I even got ready and prepared by clearing out my old SD cards for space!

I had a few worries about the screen size. I had played with the phone instore very briefly a few weeks prior to that, but I didn't get a real good 'feel' of it. When I unboxed it, I was blown away by the unibody design. I had never felt any device with such premium quality. The screen was beautiful to. When I first switched it on, I gasped at the quality of the text. It felt like printed on glass.. I realized this was down to the Super LCD. My previous phone had the same resolution, but a standard LCD screen. Anyway, the screen doesn't feel so special today, with the arrival of the new HD screens etc. It seems washed out compared to the other devices now. I was also impressed at the camera. It was my first HD camera phone, and for my, I thought it was amazing.

Anyway, I got a invisibleShield, (where I started my thread here) and from then on, I became a 'full' member of this subforum :)

I rooted within the first week of getting the phone, and I settled on LeeDroid at the time. Sometime later I moved on to VoidU. Lowveld arrived so I moved to Hyperion, and then Endymion, and now Fallout.

Anyway, I quickly got used to the screen, I didn't feel at the time it was a annoyance. But today, it feels so small, and I want a bigger screen.

The phone felt like a beast to me. I never had any lags at the time, or freezes. But now it seems slower than the rest of the Android devices... technology moves too fast!

So that's my story :)