[BNM] Are HTC devices any good?

Fri Jun 6 16:05:08 BST 2008

lol

On 6/6/08, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
> It wasn't sim free nor unlocked, and £290 was the price they asked me to
> pay for it, which I refused (and haggled them down)
>
> I apologise that you feel warning people about shoddy products because I
> don't want people to suffer the same pitfalls as I have had to is a
> waste of my time, perhaps you double-barrelled types who spend more than
> half a grand on your phones don't feel the need to help others where
> possible, but I do.
>
> Ant
>
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 15:57 +0100, Pete Barr-Watson 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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