[SprintTouch08]

schettj, if they wanted a buzz-worthy phone then upgrade the dang specs, not just a dimond/pro series rehash with a bigger screen. people are not going to be impressed with this past the first glance eye candy of the big screen. Especially the "geek" online community which is probably theyre biggest buyers.

Samsung stepped up their game with the Omnia HD, hell the Omnia outperformed our current HTC series by a mile especially video performance, and their HD will tak 720p video and offer 1080p playback with HDMI out support! Thats a multimedia smartphone. The iphone, no matter how much we here or myself hates it and Apple, will be stepping up their game this summer with a rumored muli-tasking phone with lots of good enhancements. Toshiba has the snapdragon phone. People are stepping it up this year and HTC is trying to pull this rehash crap with tired old specs for 2009. Why even spend money on these new HTC's when there's better coming out. Thats a first for HTC too, usually they are out first with the biggest and baddest and theyre going to be trailing the pack with these specs on the Diamond/Pro 2

If the video problems with qualcomm persist its going to be a huge issue. Theres no reason this doesnt have a 1ghz Tegra with full 3d support which will be all but standard on smartphones this year- theyre already out in at least one unit from Toshiba.

This phone will likely suffer the same exact video performance issues considering its using identical hardware to what we have now. Unacceptable, and I will not be buying one of these new HTCs. I still have my Sprint TP and picked up an ATT Bold and lemme tell you that 624mhz RIM used FLYS and has flawless video playback.

HTC wont be getting anther dime from me until they step it up and fix the hardware issues and step up their specs, not just a rehash. Same with Microsoft and 6.5, small visual enhacements and a rehash of 6.1, jsut like 6.1 wat to 6.