[Marty1781]

Originally Posted by whydidnt

Oh please, HTC is the largest manufacturer of these types of devices in the world, they are or have been the OEM/ODM for companies such as HP, Dell, etc. I don't think you give them enough credit here, yet, your following statement confirms you don't think they are stupid.. so which is it, they aren't smart enough to this, or they aren't stupid?

Just because a company isn't stupid doesn't mean they all of a sudden have the ability to engineer a device in a few months that took Apple years of R&D to produce.

Originally Posted by whydidnt

Being stupid has nothing to do with it. The world is littered with "smart" companies that made bad decisions in the name of short term profits. Just because they aren't stupid doesn't mean they can't be wrong here. Ultimately the market will decide. In the mean time, since they are far and away the largest manufacturer of Windows Mobile devices, and they refuse to lead in this area, they are also holding back the platform and it's growth. Such is the risk Microsoft takes by providing a platform rather than a complete device.

You're right, not being stupid doesn't mean a company can't also be wrong. But do you honestly expect anyone to believe that HTC is so out of touch with the market that they would put out a slow-responding, power-hungry device that lasted only a few hours? All in hopes of short term profits (which would likely be non-existant if the device is as bad as you say it will be)? What's next, are you going to tell me the sky is falling too!?

[Marty1781]

Originally Posted by whydidnt

Oh please, HTC is the largest manufacturer of these types of devices in the world, they are or have been the OEM/ODM for companies such as HP, Dell, etc. I don't think you give them enough credit here, yet, your following statement confirms you don't think they are stupid.. so which is it, they aren't smart enough to this, or they aren't stupid?

Just because a company isn't stupid doesn't mean they all of a sudden have the ability to engineer a device in a few months that took Apple years of R&D to produce.

Originally Posted by whydidnt

Being stupid has nothing to do with it. The world is littered with "smart" companies that made bad decisions in the name of short term profits. Just because they aren't stupid doesn't mean they can't be wrong here. Ultimately the market will decide. In the mean time, since they are far and away the largest manufacturer of Windows Mobile devices, and they refuse to lead in this area, they are also holding back the platform and it's growth. Such is the risk Microsoft takes by providing a platform rather than a complete device.

You're right, not being stupid doesn't mean a company can't also be wrong. But do you honestly expect anyone to believe that HTC is so out of touch with the market that they would put out a slow-responding, power-hungry device that lasted only a few hours? All in hopes of short term profits (which would likely be non-existant if the device is as bad as you say it will be)? What's next, are you going to tell me the sky is falling too!?

[azhiker]

If Dell could use a 3.7 inch vga screen in its X50-X51 PPC, and I think HTC made it for Dell, why can't they use that same screen in a phone version? The HP PPC had a 4" screen. such screen were produced and were excellent. Battery drain never seemed to be a problem for me. If my X50V had the possibility of taking a sim card, I would do it in a second because I still feel it is a great product. While is uses the older version of Winsdows Mobile is till functions better and looks better than most of the windows mobile products out there now. But alas Dell stopped making them. But my point is, that screen was perfect, so why no phones with this same screen?