[Desire General] kekkle:
System-Wide

Overall:

- It's faster

- Improved WiFi and 3G Signal (Noticed by kilohercas)

- Multiple reports of battery lasting longer than with Eclair 2.1. (See Bouncer5's topic for more info)

- No more accidental screen activation by proximity sensor while talking with bluetooth. (Found by jordanxp)

- Android Cloud to Device Messaging support, Eg. ChromeToPhone to send links, maps directly to phone from chrome/firefox browser (Found by psycop)

- Search function will now also search in Android Market (Found by bridgstfer)

- Speaker volume increased (Reported by rikbrouwer)

Startup/Shutdown:

- Startup sound is reduced in volume (Found by iKarampa)

- Now vibrates on shutdown (Found by Domsdey)

- Shutdown time is reduced a lot (Found by psycho.ro)

Interface

- Screen can now also be rotated to the right! (Found by martintzvetomirov)

- New Task Switcher when holding Home button. Displays 8 apps instead of 6. (Found by steve228uk)

- Helicopter View now has bigger thumbnails (Found by th3)

Apps:

- Launcher has been renamed from All Programs to All Apps (Found by steve228uk)

- HTC Share App

- News & Weather

- Videos

- Voice Search

- WiFi Hotspot

- Torchlight

- Search (Google)

- Pictures renamed to Gallery

- Twitter has been renamed to 'Twitter For HTC Sync' (Found by Havner)

Widgets:

- Calculator Widget (Found by jaymit)

- FM Radio Widget (Found by martintzvetomirov)

- Market Widget (Found by jaymit)

- News & Weather Widget (Found by Havner)

- All icons in Widget > Settings are new + 3 new widgets (Profile, Ringtone & Hotspot) (Found by Bouncer5)

- When going to Shortcut > Bookmark, you know get a bookmark thumbnail (Found by steve228uk)

- Bug: SMS Widget; When last message deleted from last thread, then widget balloon disappears, leaving only buttons for compose and list. (Found by darkduck)

- Missing: Black HTC Search Widget (Found by MD1500)

Settings:

- Wireless Networks contains settings for WiFi Hotspot

- New menu for Screen settings.

- New menu for Speech settings.

- App screen is split up in 4 tabs: Downloaded | Only actived | All apps | On SD-Card

- New sound setting that allows lock/unlock sounds. (Found by loizoskounios)

- new volume settings that lets you independently change Ringtone, Media, Alarm and if seperate, Notification volume. (Found by aindow)

- Missing: Privacy menu, including the option for backup to SD card. (Found by gush)

Dialer Related:

- Notification bar shows image of the person currently calling. (Found by beckett1)

- Dialer has new Android robot, kinda 3D looking one now.

- The slide bar for accepting a call now has a thin red and green line. (Found by loizoskounios)

- New WiFi information availble in the *#*#4636#*#* menu. (Found by 3722)

- HTC Super Caller ID shows users Facebook status (Found by chichoko)

Lockscreen:

- It's no longer possible to unlock the slide-down screen by pressing menu. (Found by kevano22)

- The screen unclock sequence can be set to engage after some minutes, or immediatly. (Better formulated by elek_it)

- Can now be a pattern lock, PIN lock or an alphanumeric password

- The lock pattern has grey middle buttons instead of black.

- Instead of just the time of the next alarm time. It also shows which day.

- Option to play a sound when locking/unlocking (Found by psycho.ro)

Keyboard:

- Keyboard now allows for Chinese input

- Keyboard now allows for quick language change.

- User dictionary no longer jumps to top when editing a word (Found by jaymit)

- Seperate screen for deleting user dictionary words, allowing for batch deleting.

- Bug: If keyboard is set to Russian (Pусский), pressing spacebar will output an exclamation mark "!" instead of a space (Found by monsterfly) (Not bugged when in Landscape mode! - yordaniy)

- Bug: If keyboard is set to Russian (Pусский), pressing enter will output an "э" instead of a new line (Found by Eugene120) (Not bugged when in Landscape mode! - yordaniy)

App-Specific

Browser:

- Adobe Flash 10.1 support is built in (make sure plugins are allowed in settings!) (Found by martintzvetomirov)

- Supports animated GIFs (Found by mscha)

- Files can now be uploaded through the browser (Found by mcgon1979)

- Now remembers bookmark order settings after reboot. (Found by doggie123)

- Downloads history is now categorized (e.g. today, tomorrow, last month) (Found by DimL)

- MP3 Streaming supported (Found by ix9)

- New flash & java features (Found by jaymit)

- Searching in-page has been improved by showing rectangles around all found cases (Found by doggie123)

- Embedded YouTube videos now show in browser instead of YouTube app (Found by mscha)

- Downloads screen now lacks 'Clear All' button (Found by th3)

- When files are deleted from the download history, they will also be deleted from the SD card. (Found by th3)

Calendar:

- Facebook events and birthdays are available in calendar. (Found by Sikacik)

- When in Month-view, the bar indicating what time is occupied, is now more detailled (Found by hyaenidae)

Camera/Camcorder:

- Camera icons now rotate along with a smooth animation when rotating the phone (Found by @MARK)

- Camera takes pictures a lot faster than before (Found by The_Hawkster)

- 3 codecs to choose from: H.263, H.264 and MPEG-4

- 720p Recording possible with MPEG4 Codec.

- Zoom not available with 720p video recording. (Found by andrew2106)

- Flashlight can be set on during video recording. (Found by monsterfly)

Contacts

- Option to automatically send someone directly to voicemail now. (Already in 2.1 according to Bouncer5)

- Facebook tab has more features (Found by Mike1988)

- Linking contacts to Twitter now works properly (Found by jameson_uk)

- Exchange synced contacts are now sorted by first name instead of last name (Found by njordan)

FM Radio:

- FM Radio now has RDS support. (Found by thpoul)

- FM Radio no longer has Japan Mode (Found by aindow)

- Incoming text message no longer mutes FM Radio (Found by flashflash)

- Shazam can be used tag FM Radio (Found by kargeor)

- Bug: Radio seems to have problems when put in background however it works fine when the screen is off (Found by kargeor)

Friend Stream:

- Now shows time of post, amount of comments and amount of likes. (Found by kazgor)

HTC RSS Reader:

- Bug: Update circle no longer animates. (Found by Havner)

Mail:

- Mails can now be send to the outbox without a network connection being required (Found by Pepi70)

- Now supports self-signed certifactes (Found by rodhull)

Messaging:

- The bottom box to type text is bigger.

- Now shows how many characters you have left from the start.

- New icon for send.

- New icon for attaching something.r

- Scrolls smoother when a conversation has a lot of messages.

- Can now send vCards as a SMS. (Found by psycho.ro)

- Can now receive vCards as SMS (Found by Mikeyy)

- Deleting a message in a long thread, will no longer cause screen to jump to last received message. (Found by Sintel)

- Bottom box for inputting text is now fixed. No longer can you scroll through messages while typing (Found by romkokos)

- Bug: UTF-8 issue with Greek sms still exists. (Found by thpoul)

Gallery:

- Icons from the Sharing menu are smaller. In portrait mode, all are visible in 1 view.

- Bug: In filmstrip view, the last photo will always be blurry (see lyleuk's thread for more info)

- Bug: In grid view, it can happen that all photos will be blurry (see lyleuk's thread for more info)

Gmail:

- Labels now have same color as those in Gmail on the web. (Found by @MARK)

- Now displays your email adres all the time in the upper-right corner.

- Displays a small icon of the person that send the mail if you have them in your address book.

- When viewing a mail, there are now buttons to go to the next and previous mail.

- Can copy text to clipboard now via menu button.

- Marking a thread unread only marks as unread those conversations that were already unread (Found by alanjrobertson)

Google Maps/Navigator:

- Bug: Voice direction pause music, but don't resume it after. (Reported by FlatEric83)

Google Talk

- New interface

Market:

- New option to allow automatic updates. (Found by jaymit)

- New seperate tab for app comments.

- Can now mark comments as: Useful, not useful and spam.

- Searching in market in some cases try to correct your spelling (e.g Did you mean: Google Earth?) (Found by aljwatson69)

Music Player:

- When no cover available, the music note is now green.

- Pressing next has a much smoother CoverFlow animation

- Genres are fixed now.

- Pressing the left-button to open up the menu happens much faster.

- Shuffle seems better (not sure, but don't bump into same song that often anymore).

- Using the 'Add all songs' option in the menu will use the order current viewed (Album, Artist, Numbers, etc) (Found by jenom)

- Playlist now loops to beginning after playing last song instead of repeating last song (Found by Havner)

- Bug: Tags of WMA files are not read properly (Found by supasye)

PDF Viewer

- Missing: Reflow function (Found by Kinma)

Videos:

- .avi (DivX/XviD) support (According to robguerra) (Confirmed not working by mcgon1979)

YouTube:

- White header bars replaced with black ones (Found by Bouncer5)

- Small lag problem when seeking to a point (Found by kargeor)

- Now features a Safe Search function (Found by kaushal101)