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Check out the higher end Blackberrys if you want to see how a pda is supposed to act. I don't mean standing in a phone store for three minutes, exclaiming "this sucks" and walking out. I mean actually try one. They are infinitely more reliable (mine has never once crashed or frozen) and a magnitude faster with plenty of memory. Mine is GSM so I can (and do) use it anywhere in the world and it has a stand-alone GPS unit that actually worked with any GPS software right out of the box. Speaking of software, BeeJive makes top notch IM software for the Blackberry and Opera Mini runs perfectly on it, to cite a couple of apps. Mine is obviously a business phone but I hear the newer ones (and those designed for "average" users) have a camera, better media support and so on. The ONLY reason I still have an HTC phone at all is for SlingPlayer and the day Sling Media releases their Blackberry client is the first day I never use HTC anything ever again. I've been complaining about this video bug to HTC and Sprint since June (same thing happens on the Mogul) and until very recently, HTC didn't even acknowledge it was a problem. Given that, I think you have a better chance of shaking hands with Allah than seeing this fixed. Especially if the ultimate authority is Sprint who may well have purposely screwed it up to push people toward Sprint TV subscriptions. Which, incidentally, doesn't seem to have the problem. Imagine that. Sure, maybe they did and maybe they didn't, but they scam their customers like it's a business model, would it be all that surprising if this was done on purpose? It's either that or no one at either company has ever seen Windows Media Player, which has the exact same performance problem as SlingPlayer. Palm is ok, I liked my old 700wx, but they're still HTC phones and they still run fat, slow, buggy WinMo. If you want to send Microsoft and HTC a message I guarantee they'll understand, give your money to someone else. Show them the same loyalty they've shown you.
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