[BNM] Are HTC devices any good?

Fri Jun 6 16:01:57 BST 2008

actually, forget I interjected please. I forgot about the BNM effect -
I don't have the time. Please all feel free to ignore any opinion I
may have offered.

On 6/6/08, Pete Barr-Watson <petebw at gmail.com> wrote:
> ffs. Ant, you have way too much time on your hands. And, personally, I
> would class £290 sim free, unlocked as fairly low end, but there you
> go...
>
> On 6/6/08, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
>>> lower end htc's are just that, low end. they're not very good because
>>> they're low end, not because they're htc...
>>
>> Hang on. Because I "only" pay £290 for an HTC phone, which, I may note
>> was the most expensive phone o2 were supplying, I should expect it to
>> absolutely suck beyond all normal means?
>>
>> I mean, it should barely be able to make a call? Crash almost
>> constantly? Be unable to hang up? Freeze when loading my text message
>> inbox? Fail to sync with its own software on a windows machine because
>> of some "unspecified communications error"? I should expect the LCD to
>> begin to fail and the entire screen to shift 8 pixels off the screen
>> after 3 months meaning that the taskbar dissapears? Then the LCD should
>> turn its own (unadjustable) contrast up so far that you can only see
>> faint outlines of the UI, if you turn on its "auto screen-off" feature?
>> It should crash on coming out of "auto-sleep" so hard that you have to
>> reset it every single time? I should expect it to be so slow that often,
>> the phone dialer application doesn't load? I should expect it to
>> regularly freeze on the boot screen? I should expect to type my unlock
>> password in and have it printed back to me, in plaintext, in the middle
>> of the screen, and voila: NOT unlock? I should expect the slide out
>> keyboard to start typing symbols and not be able to delete in the middle
>> of a text message or email message? I should then have to reboot it to
>> enable it again? It should make calls and then, mid call, silence my
>> microphone so that the other end can't hear me any more?
>>
>> The list of faults which began appearing after 2-3 months is absolutely
>> endless, and the phone gradually turns into the useless waste of pocket
>> space that it is today.
>>
>> Because it's low end?
>>
>> Frankly, if a company can't make a product which works, regardless of
>> the end of the range it is crapped out of, I would (And will not) ever,
>> EVER buy one of their worthless, cheap, badly made, buggy products ever
>> again.
>>
>> Even my siemens SL55 was better than any of my HTCs, and that was £25,
>> and utter and complete rubbish.
>>
>> Low end my ass. They're "not very good" because they're HTC.
>>
>> Ant
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 03:40 +0100, Pete Barr-Watson wrote:
>>> if you want a windows mobile handset then HTC are one of the best OEM's.
>>> I
>>> have a few htc's including the Diamond (the non-keyboard version of the
>>> touch pro) and it's pretty awesome. Of course, the iPhone is the current
>>> leader in the touch space...
>>> lower end htc's are just that, low end. they're not very good because
>>> they're low end, not because they're htc...
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > If you decide to take the plunge, make sure you have a good trial
>>> > period
>>> > where you can return it, it'll probably break within 30 days, or
>>> > you'll
>>> > be so utterly unimpressed by the way it drags its feet that you'll
>>> > want
>>> > rid of it anyway.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:20 +0100, Adam Liptrot wrote:
>>> > > Dang, HTC are the phones BT are pushing with their broadband ToGo.
>>> > > Was looking at maybe getting one of those.
>>> > >
>>> > > Ad
>>> > >
>>> > > On 6/5/08, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
>>> > > > As the previous owner of three HTC devices, avoid like the plague.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >  The HTC Trion which I recently swapped out for an iPhone,
>>> > > > completely
>>> > > >  broke down before my 12 month contract was up. What an absolute
>>> > > > piece
>>> > of
>>> > > >  trash. I mostly blame windows mobile, but the thing didn't make
>>> > > > calls
>>> > > >  properly from the outset, and 4 of 5 calls would crash the phone
>>> > > > to
>>> > > > a
>>> > > >  white screen so that I couldn't pick the call up.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >  Furthermore if I turned the phone off for a day or so, on turning
>>> > > > it
>>> > on,
>>> > > >  it would play ALL my alarm sounds in one shot and crash itself
>>> > > >  irrecoverably, so I'd reset it, and the cycle would start again.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >  Avoid, avoid avoid.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >  By the way, i'm no Mac fan particularly, but the iPhone (once
>>> > > > unlocked
>>> > > >  and jailbroken ;)) absolutely blows my mind. I've just realised
>>> > > > it's
>>> > > >  lasted a week on one charge, during normal use. More than my HTC
>>> > > > did
>>> > and
>>> > > >  this thing runs a lot faster and warmer! I absolutely love it.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >  Ant
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >  On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:53 +0100, iestyn lloyd wrote:
>>> > > >  > I was put off HTC years ago by the hilariously badly executed
>>> > > > XDA
>>> > Exec
>>> > > >  > (HTC Universal).
>>> > > >  > Are HTC's devices any better these days? This looks
>>> > > > interesting:
>>> > > >  >
>>> > > >  > http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/04/the-htc-touch-pro/
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