HTC & Open Design - Why not?

[SweetBearCub]

Originally Posted by dishe

Or at least go with an open-source solution like Android that encourages you to mess with it, and won't send lawyers to sites that are trading code...

Once Sprint releases an Android handset with hardware equivalent to or better than the Touch Pro, I'll likely do just that.

For the record, I was invited to a focus group about a year ago which focused on what I (and about 5 other techy users) wanted to see on a phone in 5 years if technology were not an obstacle. For 2 hours they had us brainstorming aloud and sketching on whiteboards in front of a huge piece of 2-way mirror with unidentified parties behind it. Oddly enough, my Touch Pro contains some of the very things I requested during the group - I specifically remember using my Mogul as an example of a powerful platform hobbled by lack of RAM and suggested that they quadruple it. I even went so far as to turn it on and load up Opera with several tabs and cause it to give out of memory errors which I then held up to the mirror for it to be viewed, along with my . I walked out of that group with $225 in cash and even helped spread the word of WMWiFiRouter to a couple other people afterward.

Oddly enough, I just got a call from the same focus group company a week or so ago, and will be doing another similar focus group that seems to be centering on early adopters of tech in about 10 days. Here's to hoping it works out as well as the last one.