Originally Posted by ScrapMaker
People also buy phone because of an image, or at least what a phone is "supposed" to do. The idea behind the TP is amazing. The specs are out-of-sight. TF3D is pretty cool... but if a phone can't make a long phone call without overheating, it's not really a phone...
HTC/Sprint markets this as a "professional touch screen device." The touch screen of the Diamond/Pro is supposed to be revolutionary--at least for US carriers--because of it's resolution and whatnot. Why would they "downgrade" the responsiveness of it? The first thing people probably think is, man this phone has a F-ING awesome screen! -- oh shoot, I can't even scroll in a program without using my fingernail. What's up with that? (I can also use a stylus, but that's pretty lame too.) Or they might notice that unless they push 10 times harder, the start menu or X button won't even register.
The fact that it's failed on the phone portion, (in many aspects,) as well as the awesome touch screen portion, makes me question how people can lap this stuff up, and think it's amazing.
Is this really that much better than the Mogul? Coming from a Touch, the only real difference is the VGA display and the keyboard. It has more horsepower, but honestly, I haven't seen much benefit to this. Perhaps if I played hardcore 3-D games, maybe I would. TF2D on my Touch was 10x smoother/reliable than the one on the Pro.
I want it to be perfect, for the price of this thing. Even if you argue that it's not $749, that's fine--whatever it is, there should not be all these defects. I feel like I bought a Visio Plasma versus the high-end Panny I have in my living room. If my Panasonic display had ANY defect, I'd be pissed--but it doesn't. It works "perfectly." Just like most cell phones out there. I know most WM have a few bugs, and I would be very forgiving on the software side, but things like build quality, (including the screen,) are just unbelievable.
I can understand how you guys are not very upset... if you are coming from the mogul, or another phone with bad build quality, or other problems, then this appears as a god-send. My Touch had no build quality issues, whatsoever. My M1? That was amazing--never had an issue, except for one area that the paint wore because of the hinge. I can accept small things like that, but it seems that people are not holding HTC to the fire here to get their money's worth on their recent phones.
More power to you guys who love the phone, regardless of problems, but I have a hard time understanding your point of view. I actually wish I saw things the same way, but with such an expensive phone, (really, it is,) I just have higher standards. I expect problems like this from the RUMOR, or the other "smartphone" texting sliders that HTC makes... Not their flagship business model phone.
Feel free to disagree, as that's the point of the internet.
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