[BNM] [OT] Are HTC devices any good?

[Antony Jones]

Oh, double barrelled names are great, I just wanted to drag it into the
conversation for fun and games.

I'm setting this conversation [OT] (for Over the Top) because i'm pretty
sure nobody cares anymore ;)

Ant

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 16:54 +0100, Chris Billett wrote:
> Pretty sure he was asking you to apologise for cussing his name rather
> than just disagreeing with his opinion, Anthony, which is understandable
> no mater where you stand on the argument.
> 
> Christopher Chuffwhipple-Billett
> 
> p.s. I want an iPhone 'cos I don't care how productive anything else might
> be, the iPhone will get girls talking to me in bars. Well... I wish,
> anyway.
> 
> > I'm not here to discount opinions nor apologise for having my own, i'm
> > here to dish out personal experience to those who request it.
> >
> > Ant
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 16:22 +0100, Pete Barr-Watson wrote:
> >> 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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> >> >>
> >> >>
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