Hi all hope you are well.

I've finally dipped my toes into the android waters and my HTC Desire S is due to arrive tomorrow. Now, this is my first real venture into 'proper' smartphone territory and I'm quite excited!

Just wondering if people have any general advice and suggestions for what I should do in terms of the set-up of the phone to utilise it to it's best and good free essential apps from the android market as well.

My contract is 300 mins, 300 texts and 1gb of internet of month but I can also utilise the wi-fi from my home internet with 02 as well. Will be using the phone for pics, music as well.

Additionally I recently purchased a cheap PAYG phone to use for long-life battery use whilst camping. As part of that, I had to purchase an orange sim card with £10 credit on it that has little use to me. Am I able to insert that sim into the desire s to use to pay for apps on android market before inserting my normal sim back in? ie: will the apps just be linked to the phone after downloading...

I hope I make sense with these questions, thanks in advance for any help and guidance

Android Market works by using your credit card to buy things - long gone are the days of using your credit to buy games and things!

Also, unless your phone is unlocked, you won't be able to use an Orange Sim card in an O2 phone.

Apps on the Android market are paid via Google with a credit card. Not from your telephone bill or in terms of PAYG your balance.

The Apps are linked to your google account and will move to your next handset no problem, you just sign into Google... open the market and they're there in your download list ready to go.

The desire S is a great handset by the way!

Thanks for your help

Just to clarify, the phone is actually unlocked so I would have, hypothetically, been able to put another sim-card in but alas, looks not to be the case! Shame about the credit situation, would have been useful but I'll survive

Re: tips and advice for the phone when it arrives, any insight? Can't wait to get my hands on it!

Its a great phone.
Use DroidStats from the market to keep a tab on your minutes/texts/MB data. It has a good widget that shows you if you are within your limits for the month.

Its a terrific phone. The best I have used so far and that includes Apple's wunderkind.