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(More customer reviews)On paper, this phone has superior hardware and technical specifications compared to most other phones. It also has a current price that's much more than the iPhone and many other phones or pocket PCs.Unfortunately, with this phone, the software provided doesn't come close to taking full advantage of the hardware.
The video and other processing performance is sub-par and worse than earlier models of HTC phones. Though they supplied the hardware, HTC didn't include the driver software necessary to take advantage of this phones high-end processor potential. Primary processing speed is slower than many other phones (even when compared to phones with slower and cheaper CPU's) because of the driver issues and the fact that the new iPhone type user interface (called TouchFlo), is first-generation-clunky.If you aren't particularly interested in watching a lot of video on your phone, the video driver problem is of no consequence. However, the slower TouchFlo interface may be an irritant (four taps on the icon to open a program instead of one). For such an expensive product with a relatively fast processor, it should outperform every other phone on the market . . . but it doesn't come close.
Initially, HTC wouldn't commit to providing updated software to solve the performance problems. Very recently an HTC executive noted that HTC had changed its mind and will eventually provide "video acceleration software," as an alternative to providing better video drivers, and software as an update for the Touch Cruise. Unfortunately, when I called, HTC would not provide an estimated release date for the updates.
I'm not a big Apple fan, but with the iPhone 3G due out in July of 2008,I think most that are interested in this phone should wait a little longer to spend so much money.
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