Life with an HTC Desire part 3

Applications

Having more fun with apps, couple of my current time wasters are,

Sketch-a-bit

A collaborative, evolutionary-drawing app, the hook is that you can upload your doodles to the web and other people modify them. Some examples can be seen on their website at http://superfiretruck.com/sketchabit/ surprisingly you don't see too many "adult" doodles.

Fractoid

Generates fractal images. Pinch zooming works well on the HTC Desire and the 1GHz snapdragon renders the images at an acceptable speed. Examples of the image can be seen on this Flickr group

Dot 2

Simple but addictive tilt control game

Problems

Couple of issues I've noticed with the phone, battery life, with everything turned on (wifi, gps, etc) I seem to be getting around a days use out of the battery when I'm using apps a lot. Take a bit of getting used to since my old phone used to last a couple of days, guess price you pay.

The SD Card becomes unusable, this seems to be a common issue with the HTC Desire, a co-worker has the same problem and its mentioned around the web a lot.

A simple reboot of the phone brings it back to life, according to HTC I should back up the data and reformat the SD card to solve the problem, not tried it yet.

I got round to installing the Android SDK and went through the classic "Hello World" app tutorial, step one done :)

1. Install Android SDK

2. Write Killer app

3. Profit!!!

My full current app list

Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery