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Tucson, AZ
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Re: Ahh
Pray tell which HTC phones you're talking about.
I've had an HTC Apache and an HTC Titan forever, and they're just about the best phones out there. The enthusiast software/firmware community is unrivaled, and HTC's Touch Diamond and Touch Pro are unmatched. Google went with HTC for the reference hardware "googlephone" because of their reputation.
Now, if you'd care to enlighten which HTC phones you've seen are "crap," I would be more than glad to oblige you with an audience.
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Noah Vail
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join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA
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HTC != Feces
I'm not sure to which phones you are referring.
I carry the AT&T tilt aka TytnII aka Kaiser aka 8925 aka whatever.
It's a great phone. The call clarity is superb, the reception is a bit better than average and I have customized the snot out of it. I love the qwerty keyboard.
It's one of the few offerings from anyone that has full GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth OBEX transfer and true 3G. There's a ton of apps written for the WM6 platform that'll let me use it as a
WiFi sniffer
HSUPA router
Cell analyzer
GPS test unit
Skype phone
and about a dozen other geeky things. That's without the business and other apps.
Out of the box it has 3MP camera with 6MP panorama view. It snaps GPS stamped photos. It's got a VPN client. My desktop has an updated weather radar scrolling across it. The Remote Desktop client was missing but easily restored. I turned the PTT button into a voice recorder that stops and saves when the button is released. On and on it goes.
The downsides are that if I run GPS, WiFi, HUSPA, Bluetooth and other stuff simultaneously, the battery goes in 3 hours. So I manage my devices with an applet that turns what I need on and off on a schedule. I can last up to 2 days. I need a bigger battery.
Other downsides are a wimpy processor and a miserly RAM allocation. What was the point in that? My Dell Axiom from 6 years ago has a faster cpu. What's sad is that most PDA phones have similar processors. Doesn't Moore's law apply in the handheld world?
To make up for the ram I keep a MicroSD card in and save/install to that. That seems to work fine.
So far I haven't met anyone who didn't really like their HTC phone. I read the HTC forums with regularity and have found very little genuine dissatisfaction.
I'm sorry your universe isn't as kind to you.
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pcdebb
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join:2000-12-03
Tampa, FL
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Re: Ahh
HTC phones that i've seen are usually crap, hopefully this one will be a step up. I'll see if i can squeeze some info from my tmobile buddies downstairs  |
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