First mobile post on desire!

Simply put, desire is the best phone that I have ever used. It hasi got every thing that I want packaged in a cool looking interface. If I really have to.come up with a downside, I guess that’d be it’s short battery life.

This is probably the biggest perk that I have enjoyed as an Accenture employee. A licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate N thanks to the MSDN subscription I got.

I must say that things didn’t go as planned during the installation. I had to do a clean install because the 64 bit installer wouldn’t boot from Vista 32 bits. Then I realized I downloaded the N version instead of the regular version. Meaning that all forms of media support was stripped from the install. There was no Media Player 12, no support for MP3s and everything else. That made me quite upset as I have spent more than 3 hours downloading the ISO from MSDN.

Any way things got on really smoothly after I downloaded and installed the missing media pack from Microsoft. My games worked smoothly after the pack was installed. Microsoft really did go out of its way to make it a pain for those unlucky European consumers with the N version of Windows 7. The OS is handicapped without the media features. Just imagine a computer without the ability to play .avi and .mp3 files. You can’t even run Warcraft III.

As expected, Windows 7 64 bit is running along smoothly. The naysayer warned me about the potential software issues which I have yet to encounter any. Besides the additional hassle of downloading and installing certain 32 bit programs (like the JRE). Everything is working along pretty well. The driver coverage is pretty extensive as well, besides the graphics card driver (I am running ATI cross-fire) there is nothing that I have to install to make things work, even the USB wireless dongle worked without its native drivers.

Will share more as the days go by. And if time allows.