[BNM] Are HTC devices any good?

[Pete Barr-Watson]

and discount the opinion of a double-barreled type who works in the
mobile industry too huh?

In my opinion, of having LOTS of experience with HTC devices recently,
your case is not typical Ant. So whilst your opinion is definitely an
important part of this discussion, it's just one opinion.

And you can apologise for getting personal any time you're ready fella...

On 6/6/08, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
> I probably should have at the time, but I bought it sort of knowing from
> my previous one that it would suck a little. I wasn't wrong! This was
> back in the days when the iPhone was prohibitively expensive, and the
> XDA range was what was on offer.
>
> I'm notoriously bad at doing things about such items, other than just
> not re-buying. But i'm all iPhoned up now, and I couldn't be more happy
> with it. It's purely my intention to give potential HTC buyers a quick
> preview of what to expect before they make the same mistakes as I did.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ant
>
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 16:05 +0100, Tom Hume wrote:
>> Ant
>>
>> Have you explored your statutory rights as a consumer? IANAL but if
>> the product don't do what it should do, you ought to be covered. Seems
>> reasonable to expect it to do the basic things that phones should do,
>> low end or not.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 6 Jun 2008, at 16:02, Antony Jones 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.
>>
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