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Originally Posted by GoodThings2Life
What the hell are you talking about going to Qualcomm next and that the HTC specs weren't enough info? Fine. Check with the phone seller to see what the phone is capable of on their network.
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At no point does either site claim to be a full-functioned multimedia entertainment system with a 3D graphics engine. I read it a few times to be sure.
Is the chipset capable of that? Sure, probably. Did HTC license and develop for it? Obviously not. Now you can disapprove of that, but all the disapproval in the world doesn't mean jack squat. |
Did you miss the "rich media experience" feature Sprint has listed on their HTC Touch Full Features list?
At no point did any company say that it WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO any of this. The fact that the MSM7500 is inside coupled with the Qualcomm statement/press releases/advertising led everyone and their mother to believe that it WOULD do this stuff.
Facts:
Qualcomm said it would. It doesn't.
HTC and Sprint didn't say anything except that it would play games and give us a rich media experience. It doesn't.
HTC scolds everyone for not "shopping smart". Everyone smacks the back of HTC's head and tells them that 3D acceleration was one of the main selling points of the MSM7xxx series chipset!
The only missing MSM7500 feature that was brought to the public's attention was the lack of WiFi hardware in the CDMA HTC Touch. We're all cool with that because EVDO rocks and bluetooth picks up the slack. GPS and Rev A are welcome extras.
If Qualcomm and/or HTC offered the missing driver as a $25 download, half the mob would disappear.
They aren't even doing that! Hell, I called Qualcomm last friday and left them a message asking them if I could buy the missing drivers for a nominal fee! They're sitting on a possible lawsuit that can be resolved and net them a tidy profit if they would just play it right.
Personally, I got a Sprint Touch for next to nothing and I don't play games on the thing, I don't really need the extra 3D acceleration... I DO care about the issue because future mobile devices are going to get more and more complex and companies can't keep crippling hardware without letting potential customers know.
How would you like it if you went to a McDonalds and paid for a value meal only to have them say "We're going to give you a soda right now and a box of fries in about 6 hours. Just because we have the hardware to make burgers doesn't mean we actually make them, you'll need to call up our corporate offices, convince them to pay an extra $20/hr to the guys working the microwaves in the back, and then MAYBE we'll make you a burger, you'll probably have to wait until we get newer burgers though... oh and you'll have to pay for the whole meal again too".
Just in case you can't see the metaphor...
Guy buying the value meal = People who bought devices with the MSM7xxx series chipsets.
Mcdonalds = wireless carriers (ie: Sprint)
Guys working microwave = Qualcomm (they want extra money from HTC for the drivers and think that they're only getting paid enough to stand there)
Corporate offices = HTC (they don't want to pay Qualcomm for the drivers and feel that Qualcomm shouldn't charge more for a product's key features)
What is stopping Qualcomm and/or HTC from clocking down the MSM7500 to 300 mhz and pulling this same routine? They said it was an MSM7500 400 mhz CPU on the spec sheet. Wouldn't you want your 400 mhz CPU to actually throttle all the way up to 400 mhz when needed or would you just sit back and say "well, they never said it would use all 400 mhz, so I guess it's ok... derp derp"?
A spec sheet is a description of what the device can do and how the device will perform. Right now, anyone in California could sue over this and win... Cali has something called the "Computer Lemon Law" that includes "Computer not functioning as promised" as one of the clauses. Most states have something similar in place. Windows Mobile devices qualify as computers and hence they fall under the Computer Lemon Law.
http://www.e-californialemonlaw.com/...Lemon_Law.html