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[Desire General] salahag:
Thanks :) ... They shipped with UPS (UPS Saver). As soon as I found out I read reviews about them, and they were mostly negative :confused: but so far I seem to be lucky.

I originally ordered from Clove, on April 7th. But when they had their April 13th update "shipping all orders upto 8th..." I emailed them for confirmation, and they replied (in half a line sentence) mine will ship next week. :eek: Which contradicts with their "upto 8th" statement. I became worried it won't even ship next week.

I emailed handtec and they confirmed same day dispatch, so I ordered. Payed with Paypal, so they didn't even ask for a security check, and all went quick. :)
[Desire General] skywalkeret:
Hope it's not the fact to effect mine. Clove said that my desire has been dispatched on 13. I pre ordered before 6th. And I got the delay email twice. One to 7th, one to 13th. And Royal Mail said it has been passed to China Post ( I am from China and I bought Hero from clove. I only can chose Royal Mail since i should show my inport licesence which I never heard of if i choose dhl or other one)

But China Post do not has any information about my package. I know China Post, dam**t service, high fees, low delivery speed:mad:. But they are my only chioce. Why roal mail does not choose another subcontractor?:confused:
[Desire General] pwy:
Mine managed to get out :D

After a brief stopover in Paris and a second one in China my Android is now hopefully on it's way to Sydney. But FedEx shipping says delivery by Tuesday! What the hell? Does FedEx want to play with it first? :confused:
[Desire General] Desire_this!:
I'm in the same situation as you. It didn't arrive today but luckily my post office where I sent the mail is open till 1PM on a saturday. :D In conclusion, I'm never using Royal Mail again. People from Sydney who ordered with DHL/Clove received their phones on Monday!
[Desire General] Eugene's Mac:
Got my Desire today and all I can say is WOW!!!!:)
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
I wonder how long this suspension of flights is going to last? Thinking about sending my desire back to get an exchange (not liking the weak, lopsided unlock button).

Called fedex today since I live outside of the UK. They said all flights into the UK have been suspended indefinitely! And they don't know when they will resume...go figure of all things a d@mn volcano is disrupting global air traffic :mad:
[Desire General] w00yee:
I desire my DESIRE, sooooo much.....

SOS, SOS, SOS, SOS

T^T
[Desire General] irkan:
mine left UK and got stuck in Paris

read the news and heard France is closing all air flights till monday :( hope its not true .... i hate France :p

I am kindda feeling bad and guilty because am worrying about my shipment while there are people effected by the volcano itself in a bad way :(
[Desire General] icyerasor:
My parcel got stuck in England, too. But not because of the friggn vulcano ash, but it probably fell off the transportation band..

It shoud be shipped by ship to germany, but hasn't moved since last tuesday. Very annoying -.-
[Desire General] inkredi:
i still WILL receive my phone tomorrow... do u believe that? :P

thst thread was started on april 6th lol...cant wait anyway :D
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
Haha, I'm happy for you. Btw, thanks for starting this thread. I'm sure many people who ordered the device found the information here very helpful.

That is,

-stock status of various retailers.

-relationship between order date and shipping date.

I suppose when you make your next purchase, you'll submit your pre-order earlier and choose a faster delivery method?!
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
So...anyone received their phones yet?

Just wondering if shipping to and from the U.K. has started again :confused:
[Desire General] inkredi:
yeah i got mine ;) I LOVE IT
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Did it get shipped out before or after the "volcano" situation?

I have to ship mine back to Handtec for a replacement...just wondering if everything is starting to get back to normal :(
[Desire General] irkan:
you can consult FedEx/DHL to see wither they are ok flying to the UK, am sure they know better.

mine is still stuck in Paris :/

here is the latest update from NATS
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
I am now...Desire-less :mad:

Hopefully this volcano situation will clear up soon.

@Irkan

Guess you and I are in the same situation now :cool:
[Desire General] Desire_this!:
YES!!!

I finally received mine about 3 hours ago. I'm charging it via USB (as my UK power adapter is at home) at work while the phone is off. Does anyone know if it takes longer to charge via USB while it's off versus the regular charger?

Can't wait to turn this baby on!! :cool:

Oh also if anyone is interested, I ordered from Clove on Feb 28th, dispatched April 9th via Royal Mail.

But yes if anyone knows how long it will take via USB that would be awesome! Aah, the impatience of youth...
[Desire General] salahag:
congratz... Yes I think it's slower on USB.

But It comes precharged to about 50%, so I'd say, unplug it, turn it on and enjoy it. :) It won't affect the battery performance, just make sure you don't get taken away by how amazing it is and drain the battery completely, ;) that - as far as I know - is not good for the battery.

When you go home, give it a full charge, and you're good to go.
[Desire General] sickboy888:
My package from Clove has just arrived at Hong Kong airport, waiting sort and customs release.

Ordered on 11th, dispatched on 16th and seems to have gotten onto the first Fedex flights out of Paris to Asia yesterday.

Looks like international orders are getting through now.
[Desire General] kuailan:
FINALLY

Finally i received mine...
[Desire General] kgi:
HTC Desire shipment cooling its heels in Poyle.

My international shipment to Cyprus is still gathering dust in Poyle, GB.

It was ordered on April 9th, picked up on the 14th, reached Stansted the same day, then perversely sat and waited patiently for 24 hours until the volcano ash ensured it couldn't go anywhere.

On the 15th it went back to London and then to Poyle, which is close to Heathrow. So FedEx might intend to fly it out of Heathrow.

Now, Heathrow has been open for over 12 hours, so I'd kind of expect a new estimated delivery date. However, I haven't received any update for 72 hours, so I have no idea what's going on. I've emailed FedEx UK for an update, but no reply yet. Does anyone know what the normal protocol is for this sort of thing?

A buddy ordered his Desire a couple of days ago. If he gets his first I will have a volcano-sized sulk.
[Desire General] irkan:
I have no idea why the shipment have "departed" from FedEx in France twice ? anyone knows what does that suppose to mean??
[Desire General] salahag:
That also means it's moving between Fedex locations inside France. Or it might have been scanned multiple times as the situation was not certain lately. I'd say it left France on that last departure :)

I used a paid app "Mobile Package Tracker" from the Market to track my UPS package, and it used to give more details and show more steps than the UPS website.
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
***UPDATE***

Handtec informed S.W.I.M. that shipping has resumed in the U.K. Good news for those who have been waiting for their pre-order...or like S.W.I.M. who are needing to return for an exchange ;)
[Desire General] irkan:
I tried to install this app on the android 2.1 emulator xP didnt work, apparently it needs android 1.5 or 1.6 :D

however i found this wonderful website that gives you more details and show it in google maps :p

Appearntly now it is in Dubai :rolleyes: hope that it will come to muscat during the weekend, .. so i would get it first day after the weekend, Saturday woho

btw the website is: http://www.packagetrackr.com/

I for one gonnna spam this website instead of FedEx's lol
[Desire General] quicksite:
Man I feel so bad for you -- a champion of knowledge in these Desire forums and you're one of the last to get your phone. Just not right. I will show you a similar chart so you can compare. My interpretation is that they trucked the items to France vs flying, thinking they could get clearance to take off from Paris vs London. Were cleared for takeoff... and on runway, and then were grounded again, causing a new tracking event.

As per the "Volcano Update" that you surely read, they've be routing intra-europe shipments by truck. In my case, going to USA, they eventually got clearance and took off and arrived at their USA hub city. Still, there are numerous curious entries. But my package did arrive today. And I just hope you get yours today, tomorrow... I think we'd all like to know how you like--no--love your phone.
[Desire General] irkan:
congratz on the new phone :D

isnt Memphis in US? .. so they went to Memphis than back to France than back to US again? or they wanted to send it and they tagged it as sent but it got returned? or is it just a fedex system glitch? lol

yeah i know about the volcano, I read about it everyday, interesting stuff.

actually am not that upset about the delay, other people got evacuated from their homes effected by the real volcano, small shipment delay is not that big deal.

funny how all the news write about the flight disruption and economic effects and only few site mentioning what is actually happening to the people of Iceland, makes you wonder in what world are we living in :D
[Desire General] quicksite:
mmmmm... don't want to make you mad, but since you have a world conscious view, this was not my phone... This was my 2nd shipment. My phone I got 2 weeks ago. This was the capacitive stylus for it -- something no one ever talks about... :)

I view it as a system limitation. It seems to be referring to a Customs clearance process at port of entry into USA... and I imagine that with the Europe flight backups, THIS process too was quote backed up... but according to the tracking, was just a blip in the scheme of things.

I knew that. I was posting that because of the routing chnages info.. Sometimes these international companies post some info on their int'l site and different on their corporate home site, so i was just making sure that what I was reading was info you also had seen -- re the routings.

Can we make you the Ambassador of XDA? More of your attitude would surely help melt the self-centeredness often accompanying our early-adopter obsessions with new gadgets. I may have missed it here during Haiti as well, but if i *DID* miss the very thing I am speaking of here, then attribute it to my lack of awareness.. But it is conspicuously odd and disappointing that a community site as large as XDA (5,000 to 10,000 unique people online at any given time of day, every day, and 2 million+ cumulative registrants, did not use some of its ad space to address its own members to seek donation aid to these relief efforts.

I find it disappointing because this is the only entity I have ever been a part of which has seemed 100% color-blind, and boundary-blind, and govt-blind, and --- on the contrary, one of the most successful proofs I have ever seen of international cooperation and collaboration. It proves what individuals, acting without influence of governments, can do together. So. that's my editorial in response to yours. Enjoy your phone soon -- and post videos damnit! Why won't you people post videos of the cities where you live?

[youtube]xxxxxxxxx[/youtube]

where xxxxxxx = the part of the YouTube URL after watch/v=

See, for example this: This shows the originality of these HTC Desire Owners:

[youtube]ZLPVjwhFvAI[/youtube]

but the real place to go is to our XDAdesire Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/XDAdesire
[Desire General] glai3:
I ordered mine on 13/4 and never heard any delivery schedule from Clove yet even though I've made several rquests of the status on their order tracking web page.

Enjoy your phone.

Another eagering Desirer from Hong Kong.
[Desire General] Kamran9558:
I also ordered from clove on 13th my credit card was charged on 19th but i didnt get any confirmation due that eljokololodjfyejdnjffu or whateva volcano :) but yesterday I got they email and tracking number from clove and right now my phone is on a flight from heathrow.
[Desire General] Kamran9558:
hey, do you have any idea how many days will it take for the package to reach riyadh from london heathrow?
[Desire General] irkan:
I will upload a vid when i get my desire :D .. will show you all the sunny 40 C degrees Muscat :D probably will shoot another vid the following week in dubai cuz am going for 4 days

well, with fedex it should be 5 days max to reach the gulf hub (Dubai) thats ofcourse if there is no volcano :D

than from dubai if its not weekend it takes max 2 days to reach other parts of the gulf, so under normal situations, 7 days should be a good estimation
[Desire General] Kamran9558:
well my phone has reached DHL bahrain sorting facility and i guess i will definitely get my phone by Saturday as tomorrow is the weekend in bahrain n saudi, my phone was shipped on 21st so its pretty fast.
[Desire General] irkan:
oh really? good, in fedex they said "2-5" days, maximum 5 days so 4 days is nice :D .. mine had to go through the whole volcano thingy, took almost 8 days to reach dubai.

now its in transit from dubai to muscat, but today is weekend, tomorrow is not :D expecting it tomorrow
[Desire General] quicksite:
Fed-Ex'd to the USA: A less than usual unboxing video:

Part 1: Power Discovery

[youtube]MMfQIzwebzU[/youtube]

Just a hint for USA customers: You'll need a charger adapter.

More video to come which directly compares the form factor of my last phone (HTC Hero GSM) with the Desire.

.
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
:D could you be more abusive?

As far as the charger adapter goes, I am using the one from my iPhone.

Hint...Hint...to anyone who doesn't have an adapter :p
[Desire General] quicksite:
I am so tired of the paradigm of the "Reverential Unboxing Video" for smartphones, they are all the same; and boring and predictable. people may as well all just link to the same one. So I wanted to BLOW UP the paradigm. And I did. More to come. This was all shot 2 weeks ago when i got my phone, but couldn't get around to editing it til now.

And once again my Hero to the rescue. My GSM Hero from Czech Republic/Poland had USA wall current adapter included, which I pay homage to in video #2. :)
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Exactly, the whole "Hi this is so-and-so and today...you will watch me slowly and gingerly unbox the new HTC Desire"

RIP THAT BI@TCH UP AND POWER IT ON!
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
@irkan

Did you finally get your Desire?

From the looks of it...you were the last one waiting :(
[Desire General] quicksite:
I want to know too, irkan! Are you silent because you've finally gotten yours and you are 24-7 figuring it all out? or are you on a drunken binge due to fact that you still have not received your DESIRE?

We demand to know!
[Desire General] irkan:
LMAO, naaah i got it couple of days ago, i was busy with work though and after working hours i was busy playing with "it" :D Lol

had a little trouble texting with it (coming from a fully fledged physical QWERTY keyboard with Nokia E75). but i installed swype and its all good now.

also got martin fields screen protector, quality stuff i must say, very thin its like its not there and less sticky and finger tip magnet-y than the actual screen. would recommend it to anyone who needs good screen protector.

great phone, the only down side is that the loudspeakers is crap, real crap!! its loud enough, but the quality is real crap (i said "crap" 3 times i know)
[Desire General] salahag:
congratulations irkan :D

thanks for the tip about the screen protector, but where did you get it from?

I've been also trying to install Swype through the beta account I made while on the Hero. But get Phone ID mismatch error when I try to install it. So I can only use it on the Hero. How did you install it?
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
YES! :D

Congrats on finally getting it. I got my replacement yesterday (a day ahead of schedule:eek:)
[Desire General] irkan:
Thanx :D

if you have Aramex mail box account in UK and US than you can order it from http://www.martinfields.co.uk they will deliver it to your Aramex mail box in UK and then transfer it your local Aramex office. for more info you can consult Aramex in UAE :D

otherwise order it from the mother company http://www.martinfields.com takes longer though

Lol, thanx. replacement for what? pink htc.com? you guys are so spoiled lol :p
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Negative...cr@ppy, broken power/unlock button :(
[Desire General] indyjonesUK:
I got the same so here is hoping :)
[Desire General] inkredi:
so no other news from handtec?? they're one of the very few stores that are delaying the phones...for our good?? thats it?
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Nothing else so far. I figure right now we won't hear much from them because it is probably 1-2 in the morning ;)

Sucks that the phones got delayed, but what can you? If you cancel right now and decide to go with Clove, they will be out-of-stock due to them shipping out preorders from weeks back.

So...the best thing to do IMHO is just sit tight and hope that the shipping date doesn't get pushed back again.
[Desire General] Desire_this!:
For your information...

The full email from Clove:

:cool:

Either Handtec is wrong and it doesn't apply to all resellers or Clove is out of the loop. I eagerly await tomorrow.

On another note, I picked the International Signed Mail for £24, however the DHL International Courier is £34. I want my Desire ASAP, so did I do the right thing? Are they the same shipping speed to Australia, or should I annoy them and ask to change to DHL?
[Desire General] OnlinePredator:
I chose DHL as I wanted mine asap. DHL i thought was 1-2 days, while signed mail was 3-7 days.
[Desire General] irkan:
i strongly think that they dont have stock, and that clove and devicewire will post the bad news tomorrow morning, cuz handtec said they recieved the call 5.30pm and they posted it asap, but clove and devicewire probably decided to wait to the next working day to post the bad news, will see in few hours :D
[Desire General] bcmobile:
As irkan pointed out in another thread, HTCs Facebook page says:

...so it sounds like its just handtec who are having problems??
[Desire General] indiekiduk:
I need to make some Android apps and was tempted to get the Desire until I read this:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news...nexus-ones-screen-science-color-and-hacks.ars

Not really interested in a Fuzzy screen so might get the Legend with the normal resolution instead, since at least its in stock.
[Desire General] Ganja82:
A few minutes ago i have visited amazon.co.uk to look for the desire and there was writen "usually dispatched within 1-3 months. This is new for me. Or isn't it new?
[Desire General] EroThraX:
It's been posted before and I still can't see his link to fuzzy text in the real environment. The text on my desire is just as sharp as my TFT-LCD devices and looks even better in some places.
[Desire General] irkan:
the legend have the exact same issue if am not mistaken
[Desire General] NazAbdm:
A friend of mine ordered HTC Legend from Clove and have chosen DHL, but Clove actually has shipped via Fedex!!! Why do they ship by Fedex, if Fedex wasn't even in options to select??? :confused:

I have pre-ordered Desire with DHL shipment, so will they ship with Fedex to me as well???
[Desire General] gogol:
If I am not mistaken, you live in UK, right? You would find plenty of street stores having HTC Desire.

Go there, and take a look your-self. They would let you play.

Then see the screen your-self.

Judge from your own eyes.

The below article might be correct, scientifically, but that does not mean the HTC Desire amoled screen sucks. It is not.
[Desire General] w00yee:
Oh man, Its 6 in UK... Clove, make the 7th a big day for me!!!
[Desire General] _Dejan_:
Im think that Desire will be shipped today from handtec and Im order it from them but today Im receive that shipping is delayed for another one week... Grrrrrrrrrrr
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I just noticed that Clove removed their news post about the Easter holiday opening hours from their news site http://www.clove.co.uk/news.aspx

That is, the below message is no longer there.

It's now almost 8am UK time. We should have more updates as the day goes on. I have my fingers crossed that Clove is unaffected by Handtec's delays!

Btw, I was told by Clove that they always receive HTC stock at least a day before Handtec does because they're closer in proximity to the UK HTC distribution center. This was in response to my attempt a couple of weeks ago to cancel my order in favor of Handtec. Not sure how true their statement is...

Update: Just noticed the following image from Clove's Desire product page. It may have been there earlier but I just noticed it now.
[Desire General] bcmobile:
From Devicewire via twitter:

Posted on 5th.

http://twitter.com/devicewire
[Desire General] salahag:
Now it's offecial on Clove website too... approximately 13th April.

As frustrating as it is, I'm still kind of glad Clove followed, as I'm hoping the delay is due to solving issues.

I hope that (Delay, delay, delay and delay....) situation doesn't become a habit for HTC.
[Desire General] irkan:
In 47 minutes i expect we will see the delay messages in clove and devicewire and all uk :D <-- dont know why i put smiley, am sad from the inside :( Lol
[Desire General] glumardok:
The text in the red button on Clove's site has just been changed to: "Frist shipments delayed by HTC until approx 13th April" - seems that Handtec is proven right.
[Desire General] inkredi:
don't get your hopes high devicewire ppl :P it'll just get delayed like the rest of us :)
[Desire General] timmyp27:
Devicewire Twitter:

Stock 'should' be arriving today - just awaiting the delivery.
[Desire General] glumardok:
Sorry for the double post: But I find it hard to believe that the pink display issue is the cause for the delay: First, the issue is known since months and applies to the N1 and to the Legend as well. Second, apparently only free UK deliveries are affected. In Belgium and the Netherlands the Desire is being distributed as well as branded phones in the UK as well. It must be something else, I would think.
[Desire General] quicksite:
What I wrote to Handtec Customer Support

Not that I think it will generate anything other than a polite auto-repl, but here is what I submitted as a trouble ticket. For some reason my name got logged within their support system as "Google Checkout" -- which somehow got erroneously picked up from my purchase details: I paid for my pre-sale DESIRE using Google Checkout:

Wed April 7, 1:29am Pacific time; 8:29am UK time
[Desire General] paulruk:
Funny how every review i`ve read regarding the Desire says how wonderful the screen is. Then you find some "anal" in depth microscopic analysis of the screen and decide against it. strange
[Desire General] irkan:
yeap

they misspelled "First" .. haha xP :(
[Desire General] bcmobile:
Nooooooooooooooooooo!

They all suck!

From Clove: