[mdodge]

Dont know if this has been discussed but thought its worth mentioning.

The technology to meet some of our expectations (whether its features, battery life..etc) does exist. And the quality control procedure could be expanded to find some of these deeper issues. (Here I refer to the issues trickling down from the original software bases)

But there is one thing IMHO that changes everything. The good old dollar bill. Money. That is what drives all business no matter what they say or lead people to believe. That is why new software cores are not created from scratch each time, to much time and money. I believe if more time was invested in testing, debugging..etc, more optimizations could be found. That is why PPCgeeks and other forums are great, because these DIY experts can then do what the big companies didnt have the time or want to spend more money on to do. And that is optimize to the greatest possible ability. Tweaks, custom roms, drivers, bug fixes and other optimizations will always be found.

The tech for such small and powerful processors, high capacity memory cards, batteries..existed 10 years ago. But it wasnt cost effective enough to bring mainstream. So really these devices aren't the cutting edge of technology, they are just the most cutting edge of profitable technology in its field.

Now I'm not saying HTC is an evil corporation that is trying to con everyone by releasing sub par devices. I personally believe that compared to alot of companies, HTC seems to spend more time in quality control and support. So I applaud them.

So the reality is that until the price is right for business, we really cant expect these devices to be perfect and or live up to every expectation we have. There should be improvements from model to model and I would say its a fair to say the TP is an improvement over the Mogul, which the TP was really the upgrade from.

I choose to accept that the TP does more things better than most if not all WinMo devices, with the knowledge something has got to give somewhere for all that power, and logically battery would be one. It will get better, when the price is right.