HTC hardware defect to decide the future of the Desire HD?

More and more owners of the HTC Desire and other HTC phones are reporting cases where  their phones seemingly randomly reboots, resulting in a hard reset of the phone (meaning all the users data is removed). The problem seems to arise when simple apps like the browser or the navigator is used. These apps use the internet to function, and many speculate that the problem is 3G related as it occurs mainly when 3G connection is used. Something interesting is that people living in cold conditions have been less likely to experience this, and cooling the phone down has also seemed to temporarily solve the problem. This means it's caused by overheating, and many speculate it is therefore processor related. The Desire is equipped with a 1 GHz ARMv7 "Snapdragon processor.

Now, more importantly, how will this affect the HTC Desire HD? The DHD uses a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdgragon 8255 processor, which is similar to the processor found in the HTC Desire. Will the Desire HD therefore suffer from the same problem? This is something that ofcourse cannot be answered at this moment, but that will be found out later as the phone is released to the general public later this month. Many HTC Desire users who are stuck with this issue are reporting it as making their phones "completely useless", destroying an otherwise very nice user experience. They are also warning others NOT to buy any future HTC devices, as they will only regret it in the future. For all you readers awaiting the new Desire HD and for HTC itself I'm hoping that DHD wont be affected by this, as it would surely affect the future of the phone and how successful it will ultimately be.

What do you think? Leave a comment below and state how you think the Desire HD will be affected.

Desire HD Camera quality - Is the Desire HD not that HD?

The HTC Desire HD has been fitted with an 8 Megapixel camera with dual LED flash. Even though image quality usually increases as the number of megapixels increases, it is not always the case, and this is a bit misleading. For example, most 5 MP cameras take much nicer images than the 8.1 MP camera that my current phone has. HTC phones have in the passed also been quite lacking when it comes to camera performance, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Desire HD followed suit. In fact, the images taken with the Desire HD will probably be very similar in terms of quality as the ones of HTC Desire. This is a bit disappointing, keeping in mind the rather large price tag.

Some sample pictures, taken from mobile-review.com, can be seen here. Keep in mind that these were taken with an engineering sample and changes can be made prior to release. Although, this is not too likely.