I recently grabbed my second Android phone, a HTC Desire. While I was very pleased with my HTC Magic, the Desire has a few features the Desire does not, and so I decided to spring for it.
I wanted to be able to hand over my old phone to someone else, but didn’t want them to see what I’d had installed and stored on the phone. Luckily, this is very simple to accomplish, as there is a built-in tool made to reset the phone to factory settings. Here’s how to use it:
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Tag: HTC Magic
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Resetting HTC phones to factory settings
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A new cellphone – Choosing phone
Note: For the next few posts, I will cover my choice of a new mobile phone, what considerations I have made and what applications I am running through it.
As I said in my previous post, I eventually decided on getting a phone that runs Android. The question, then, was which phone to get. Living in Norway, the selection is rather limited, and I was not about to go abroad to get my phone. Hence, the Choice was between HTC’s Magic and Hero, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia and Samsungs I7500.
I tried out all four models, and found that it came down to the two offerings from HTC. I then looked at the specs for the two phones, and really, they’re so closely matched, it all, in the end, came down to design. I can understand why some people might like the “lip” on the Hero, but I didn’t, and so, my choice was the HTC Magic