Comments on: HTC: “We Tried To Do Too Much” In 2011, Will Give Customers Something Special In 2012

By: Djmwilliams

Djmwilliams — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:06:00 +0000

The Rezound is Verizon’s first 4G LTE Global device.

By: Victor Stuber

Victor Stuber — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:02:00 +0000

It sounds like they finally read the book Steve Jobs. I wish everyone manufacturer would read it.

By: TC Infantino

TC Infantino — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:33:00 +0000

Oh I found out something just a few days ago. When I plug my Rezound into my cars radio using the Aux plug, the Beats integrated sound boost turns on. I just found this out when I used the native music app instead of PlayerPro while driving. It sounds awesome through my cars speakers.

By: TC Infantino

TC Infantino — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:30:00 +0000

I totally agree, I love my Rezound, I can only think of one thing they should have done better and that was the battery, both the design and the size (MaH). I would love to see them come out with an extended battery that is the width and almost the length of the phone, but not nearly so thick. A Rezound that has the battery life of the Razr Maxx, that would be excellent.

By: James Kirk

James Kirk — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:29:00 +0000

don’t forget that apple’s app store nickel and dime’s you to death making you pay out the ass for everything, where they get a large chunk of change from, that’s why they passed on flash capabilities because they didn’t want iphone owners getting stuff for free.

By: TC Infantino

TC Infantino — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:07:00 +0000

Well you have to factor in price with that analogy. If the diner has good prices and the food isn’t bad and you get lots of it, but the specialty restaurant has very high prices and even though their food is made by a master chef there are just small portions, then give me the diner every time. And don’t forget that with Apple, you also have to question freshness, considering their last iphone release wasn’t exactly cutting edge tech, evidenced by no LTE, no NFC, and still tiny screen.

By: TC Infantino

TC Infantino — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:43:00 +0000

I agree. I believe that the manufacturers should put out one flagship phone a year, and have it be a truely top of the line phone with all the specs maxed out for what tech is available at the time. No more top tier phones that are almost perfect, except for the missing X (whatever X happens to be, screen not the best, downsized memory, camera quality). These top tier phones would give us TechnoGeeks all the goodies we need. Along with the once a year top tier phones, each manufacturer should put out one mid grade phone every year, but offset from the top phones by 6 months or so.
This would give us a choice of 3-4 flagship phones, 3-4 midgrade phones, and 3-4 year old technology phones (these are the flagship phones from last year that can be now marked down to dicsounted prices). With this type of rollout plan the stores would have a nice variety of Android phones ranging from cutting edge tech to the year old but still good quality tech, so the customer has their choice, and the manufacturers each can focus on 2 phones each year.

By: Josh Groff

Josh Groff — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:08:00 +0000

Sense 3.5 actually had minor UI changes, and the lock ring was not in stock 2.0 on the incredible-incredible 2. Also, who cares if blur is non-intrusive if it looks horrible? Granted one could just not use either for social integration and install adw/ go launcher or launcher pro if they were that bothered with it.

How many UI elements has blur changed?

By: Josh Groff

Josh Groff — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:05:00 +0000

Blur is too blah, and touchwiz looks like iOS, also, it’s a matter of preference. Sense has good looking widgets and pretty good social network integration.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:16:00 +0000

While I agree to some extent. I feel that having multiple phones to choose from is a positive. It’s all about choice. Apple gives you no choice of phone for the current generation aside from black or white and memory capacity (don’t get me started, $100 for 16-32 extra GB!?). With Android you have much more choice. Want a huge screen? Keypad? No problem. Tiny screen? Got that too. I could go on but you get the point.

Bottom line is that the phone makers need to slow down and release flagship devices maybe twice a year with a couple lower end phones for those that don’t care about having the top tier tech.

By: Pabst

Pabst — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:13:00 +0000

Unfortunately you are right.

By: Pabst

Pabst — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:11:00 +0000

I hear you. I had the DInc2 and loved it but the lure of LTE goodness got to me and I switched for the TBolt. What a mistake. My gf has the DInc2 and it’s been a truly solid phone. She loves her phone. Mine, I alternate between slight annoyance and wanting to smash it into bits and pieces. What a buggy, laggy, battery-draining POS.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

HTC “We really shafted our old customers so to make up for it, were going to make things better for our new customers”
Unfortunately, because of the Tbolt debacle, these two groups will be largely mutually exclusive.

By: Pabst

Pabst — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

A good start would be supporting a device for longer than 6 months. As an unlucky TBolt owner I’m pretty disappointed that there’s been no official word about ICS. If the Nexus S can run ICS with 512 RAM then the TBolt should be able to do just fine with 768MB. An even better option would be to help out us shafted TBolt owners into getting a newer HTC phone that will be supported through Verizon, but that will NEVER happen.

By: boo Jay

boo Jay — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:18:00 +0000

I still love you HTC, you make awesome phones, unlike…whoops, just stepped on an apple….