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Old 01-27-2008, 02:36 PM
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I'm not saying I wouldn't like better performance from my device, I'm just saying your anger is misplaced. Neither Sprint nor HTC advertised the Mogul as having a functional ATI video chipset. Just because it may or may not be there does not mean we are entitled to it.

You need to read all the replies from HTC before you 'demand' like children what you want. They have clearly stated that it is much more than releasing a few drivers. Do you really believe HTC would refuse to release the drivers if that is all it would take?

This device is already 8 months out of the box and that is OLD in this industry. Thanks to the blind masses flocking to the iPhone we may never get another keyboard slider device like this again (Touch anyone?), at least in the CDMA world, and obviously, HTC is in the business of SELLING phones, not UPGRADING older models.

We have finally gotten the promised revA and the bonus of working GPS WHICH WAS NEVER ADVERTISED AS BEING ENABLED IN THIS DEVICE. Every spec/advertisment I have ever seen for the Mogul said GPS 'capable'.

Apparently the fix for GPS was something HTC belived to be economically feasible for them to provide (especially since Sprint bundled in their per-month GPS mapping app). So you can be assured Sprint was the driving force behind enabling the GPS (because they saw a chance to make money DUHHHH)

If there was a way to make money from enabling the video chipset that would make it profitable, you can bet both Sprint and HTC would be on it. It may be quite possible that the best way to get this done would be as a paid upgrade (hey, maybe they could bundle it with a hardware RAM upgrade LOL), but with the prevalence of hacking/pirating you can bet that won't happen.

Again, I will state: I WANT THE VIDEO TOO, but looking at it from a business perspective, it won't happen. I'm grateful for the working GPS gift.
I'm gonna stick with my Mogul and hold out for the next-gen slider ppc with VGA and LOTS of ram. ETen and others are making them, maybe they will design a CDMA device and steal the market from HTC.
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