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Truth is I've been tempted to sell my touch a few times to go for the Samsung i760 phone which is blistering fast and highly optimized, however it lacks the latest chipset meaning no gps. In a way HTC does a good job of providing modern hardware to us, and I would venture to say they put these phones out long before they are ready for the market. It's good that we have such a community built around these devices to at least try to do something with the hardware we are given.
I will also say HTC is bad business for Microsoft and Windows Mobile in general. It's no wonder why Blackberries and iPhones are dominating the market. Who (beside those few of us on the boards) has the time to screw with these things?? Most people I know who buy these things end up returning them or selling them out of frustration.