in responce to the driver problem we have

[Mikeschevelle]

Yep. Easy as pie

[Mikeschevelle]

You guys are like flies at a picnic

[gabo1]

i say we email bomb the sh!t out of htc and sprint, whos with me?

[eehrhard]

Originally Posted by gabo1

i say we email bomb the sh!t out of htc and sprint, whos with me?

Here lies the problem. this like any other topic or debate in the world ends up with 4 or 5 different types of participants. extreamists: griefers on one side trying to get a rise out of people and angry lynchmob type people on the other. these two groups tend to be the smallest but most vocal and end up effecting the other two groups who may be very close to each other on the particular subject or if not are able to conduct civilized and productive conversation and debate.

I hope some of you are as passionate about things that actually matter to mankind as you are about this.

[gabo1]

i say we prove them wrong. is there any hard evidence that this processors have this said capabilities? if so lets rub it in their asian lookin faces and spread the word as much as possible. you know sometimes i think this is payback for those nukes back in the old days.

[itsall_cooool]

I'm not saying I wouldn't like better performance from my device, I'm just saying your anger is misplaced. Neither Sprint nor HTC advertised the Mogul as having a functional ATI video chipset. Just because it may or may not be there does not mean we are entitled to it.

You need to read all the replies from HTC before you 'demand' like children what you want. They have clearly stated that it is much more than releasing a few drivers. Do you really believe HTC would refuse to release the drivers if that is all it would take?

This device is already 8 months out of the box and that is OLD in this industry. Thanks to the blind masses flocking to the iPhone we may never get another keyboard slider device like this again (Touch anyone?), at least in the CDMA world, and obviously, HTC is in the business of SELLING phones, not UPGRADING older models.

We have finally gotten the promised revA and the bonus of working GPS WHICH WAS NEVER ADVERTISED AS BEING ENABLED IN THIS DEVICE. Every spec/advertisment I have ever seen for the Mogul said GPS 'capable'.

Apparently the fix for GPS was something HTC belived to be economically feasible for them to provide (especially since Sprint bundled in their per-month GPS mapping app). So you can be assured Sprint was the driving force behind enabling the GPS (because they saw a chance to make money DUHHHH)

If there was a way to make money from enabling the video chipset that would make it profitable, you can bet both Sprint and HTC would be on it. It may be quite possible that the best way to get this done would be as a paid upgrade (hey, maybe they could bundle it with a hardware RAM upgrade LOL), but with the prevalence of hacking/pirating you can bet that won't happen.

Again, I will state: I WANT THE VIDEO TOO, but looking at it from a business perspective, it won't happen. I'm grateful for the working GPS gift.
I'm gonna stick with my Mogul and hold out for the next-gen slider ppc with VGA and LOTS of ram. ETen and others are making them, maybe they will design a CDMA device and steal the market from HTC.

[htcphone]

I just cant help laughing at ppl saying. "HTC never said they were going to have functioning ATI chipset". My response is always... "WHY MAKE THEM?".

[kellybrf]

Originally Posted by htcphone

I just cant help laughing at ppl saying. "HTC never said they were going to have functioning ATI chipset". My response is always... "WHY MAKE THEM?".

they didnt make them, qualcomm made them and has been stated before there are many hardware disabled features in the chipset, such as gsm and wifi. its a multi-platform chipset and youll never see a device with all the features enabled, its just how the industry works. as htcs statement mentioned, its not like this is a simple driver issue. the whole platform would have to be reworked, which in turn would push back development of the device and raise the cost. it can play multimedia, it was not billed as a multimedia device because they made the business decision to focus on issues such as memory rather than video performance and keep the costs down.

[Spencer_Moore]

im jsut curius since i dont own one of the enxt gen devices neccesary...what functionality is missing??

[kellybrf]

so its ok to continue to complain about an issue that officially will not be addressed, but its not ok to complain about those people cluttering up the board with a useless discussion? i just want to make sure im following your logic here