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Windows-Based iPhone Rival for Business Users
MsManhattan writes "High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has unveiled a touch-screen mobile device that offers many of the same features as the iPhone but with an emphasis on business applications vs. entertainment value. The HTC Touch is based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS and features a 2.8-inch touch screen offering access to emails, contacts and appointments. But unlike the iPhone, which will feature large internal flash memory capacity for music and movie storage, the HTC Touch offers a microSD drive, and a 1G-byte microSD card comes with the handset."
Let the bashing begin!!!!
No where on the net will you find a larger group of hypocrits than on teh slash.
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After having bought a HTC phone (Tmobile Dash/HTC Excalibur) I have vowed to never purchase another HTC product. Within 3 weeks, the screen broke. And not from dropping it or hitting it, but from picking it up off the table. HTC's response? $125 an we will repair it for you, but no guarantee it won't break again. Maybe it was just the Dash that had problems, but if HTC won't stand behind one product, I will stay far away from any of their other products.
Let me guess, it "squirts" dissapearing conversations and email at people who walk by, but only if they have the same model phone. Microsoft's inability to compete outside the beige box is matched only by their pathetic desperation to do so. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict they name it the phune.
The summary says it all and I'm not going to bother looking at the pictureless article. "emphasis on business applications" is a fine way to say crippling the device with something from M$ robs it of ergonomics, stability, response time and ability. A good email application is not a good excuse for the device to not be able to play music and movies.
But they do make up for entertainment value in the software name, "Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS." What a mindless mouthfull. You have remind people it's for professionals or they won't suffer so willingly. For bling factor, they need to subdivide into versions like "Home", "Business", and a heavy metal extra expensive version like "Platinum" or "DU". I always love it when they have a "Home Professional."
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
This is not informative unless you can link to evidence that shows there is a general problem with the product.
As Beavis once told a golfer after stealing his balls, "It's amazing how mass produced objects are so identical as to be virtually indistinguishable." His screen broke, we can expect many more will.
Still, this is only one HTC model and everyone can make a mistake. A far larger mistake is working with M$. There's plenty of evidence about what a bad idea that is, but the Plays for Sure fiasco is best.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
It wasn't a good idea to post this story, Zonk. Beware the wrath of iPhone fans.
I wrote about my xv6700 Windows Mobile smart phone -- which has most if not all of the features of an iPhone -- in an earlier post, and was modded down as a troll by the fanatics.