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Originally Posted by hippity.hoppity
"High end" Blackberries suck even more than the Touch for video playback. They support no codecs and there is zero third-party software for them. Try playing an AVC movie on any BB - you can't.
Sprint doesn't seem to care about fixing the issue. The Mogul has gotten almost no attention and the Touch will probably be EOL before the end of the year. They need to pay HTC to fix the issue going forward.
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LOL...I don't even know what an avc movie is so it doesn't matter much to me. But it plays the mpegs and mov files I have just fine. The GPS was the real bonus for me. If Sprint does something like that, I will be absolutely astounded. Personally, I think everyone is getting excited over what will almost certainly be a half-assed, locked down feature that Sprint will use to collect yet another $10 a month. Along the same lines, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if you have to sign up for RevA and pay for that on top of EVDO. So really, the only thing I'm interested in is a fix to this problem. To that end, I got an email from HTC asking for phone info (including IMEI...wtf?) and a description of the problem. I filled it out and mailed it back but man, don't they use their own stuff? How can you miss WMP not playing video worth a damn when it comes with the phone? Part of the OS, in fact. How do you not know about that? And why does HTC need a description from people like me? Step 1: Copy short video to phone. Step 2: Play video. Step 3: Observe results. Wow, there's 20 seconds of some tech's day. What do they have, 3 employees, two of which are minimum wage? Frankly, it still makes a LOT more sense that Sprint told them to do this on purpose. It'll be interesting to hear the excuse when an update is released and the problem isn't fixed.