I ended up rooting the phone lastnight - for a number of reasons. Firstly to be rid of all the useless customisations Orange had made to the phone - I mean, why do they bother? They added 5 game demos of pretty naff games which couldn't be removed, their own AppStore and a few other 'Orange' apps. Secondly, I've been experiencing pretty poor battery life - in a scientific experiment over lunch yesterday I lost 10% of my battery compared to a colleagues 2% with the same features switched on so I decided it was about time that I went back to the HTC default ROM.

It was a painless exercise which had no dramas attached so now I'm back to the vanilla HTC Desire ROM and so far am experiencing WAY better battery life.