in responce to the driver problem we have

[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.