These are the droids you're looking for

My path to the HTC Desire HD was short and direct. I Googled iPhone alternatives. Read a few reviews comparing the Desire, iPhone 4, and Samsung Galaxy S. Noted that nothing [1] could measure up to the Desire's 8 MP camera (not even the iPhone 4. What are you doing, Apple?). Priced it on pricespy.co.nz. Bought it from Expert Infotech in Auckland.

It cost me $568 including shipping.

Now don't be sad, iPhone users. Only the power of parallel importing allows the rest of us to buy our quality [2] technology for less than half the cost of yours. HTC would be annoyed if they knew, and it does leave me with peculiar cross-cultural hardware, like this power adaptor:



[1] The Nokia N9 has as good a camera, but I've been irrationally prejudiced against Nokias since working as a mobile phone tester during university holidays. The Galaxy S2 also has as good a camera; not sure why it didn't show up in my research, maybe it was too recent.

[2] In the absence of specialist knowledge, I defer to the opinion of blogs like this, which seem happy to treat the Galaxy, Desire and iPhone 4 as comparable.