[XV6700Dummy]

I persevered with my apache for quite some time and upon getting a good rom flashed to it, it's been fantastic well within it's processor and memory limits.

You will not like that HTC raped TP owners of simple utility like the headphone jack mentioned.

You may, like I do, hate HTC for the D Pad which makes running some amazing software, of which will run brilliantly on the TP and won't even boot up on the apache, impossible. The D Pad is pure junk.

The standard battery on my apache, after rom and tweaks, out lasts my TP battery, more than 10:1 and I've had 3 TP's and 4 apaches. The battery situation and heat problems are infuriating since the TP is very alluring in so many ways.

The camera? daylight and dark difference between the two and from what I've seen they are not putting a front camera on the TP 2, and are adding insult to injury by removing the very useful flash as well.

I've not gotten brave enough to flash my TP's and I do wish I could hook up with somebody local that has been there and done it, along with having a windows machine that cooperates better than any I have access to... I think I'd like one with linux installed on it but, as bad as it makes my head hurt just wading thru this site and attempting to discern something as rudimentary as a hard reset for this device, I don't think I'll even consider it unless I just happen upon a ppc AND linux freak that is amenable to lending a helping hand and not via remote control.

My relationship with the TP is just like that with my apache, love hate. They came so close to giving the appearance of pride, by at the same time, light years away.

I remain hopeful that HTC gets serious with snapdragon. I hope that less than three months of owning it does not reveal it was built to a price and/or released to the public which they seem to regard as their field testers and software engineers, THAT PAY THEM!

In no form or fashion will I find such a flagship concept machine acceptable if it's made of the same cheese as the TP. Zero hope for the TP2.

I DO NOT WANT; heat problems, dpad junk, lack of two cameras with flashes, lack of two good speakers, lack of practical receptacles to plug in real world accessories, a device too small to carry an appropriately capable battery go ahead add a solar cell, lack of IrDa, lack of FM radio and why not chip in a police scanner as well as a digital tv tuner, a crippled GPS, a smudge and fingerprint magnet that can't stand even being wiped off without turning the warranty voider pink, etc

just get real HTC

ring me and I'll help your design guys


btw, do put a small dob of RTV over your new TP's moisture indicator, not only does the stupid heat retaining back cover hold in heat, but nothing about that phone has any real world moisture resistance. The sweat from your pocket, not to mention just being outside with it during moist climate conditions, will turn that white/red square, pink and void your warranty.

Just peel the RTV from the indicator before returning it for a claim.

With the stock rom, my vrz TP's lock up frequently with SMS, overheat, murder batteries, and I couldn't care less about TF3D but it crushes this device. It also has the worst phone radio of any cell phone I've ever owned, pathetically weak and the phone does stupid random things and often only decides to ring about the time the incoming call is switched to voicemail

and there are other stupid things it does but it does appear that rom flashing will cure many bugs that ail this nearly superb device