Comments on: Sexy HTC Touch takes on the Apple iPhone

By: ss-hole

ss-hole — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:44:42 +0000

agree with d.peters
iphone really sucks apart from ipod + phone LUMPED on it. have you seen the asian version of ipod? not sure where that is leading to. I thnk they will be losing position soon if they don’t get the OS X together…

go for the HTC Touch… it is really the next good thing….

By: d.peters

d.peters — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:16:57 +0000

can you say apple fanboi??!!

ur all idiots, all an iphone is, is a 4gb ipod with very basic phone capabilities. the touch is different… it is a smartphone with wm6 and touchFLO – i.e. it is a phone + extras. iphone is an ipod + a phone lumped on it. its amazing how apple have created such hype over nothing

By: Willis

Willis — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:08:17 +0000

[quote comment="3274"]Mo’ Ali. ‘Cause its ghetto. This is the broken down, back of the truck, no refunds, version of the iPhone. Ghet-TO.[/quote]

Yes, that’s why. Just because its ‘touch’ doesn’t mean its going to be great. There are lots of types of convertibles, but not all of them are “sexy”.

Thank you, Cleverboy.

By: Cleverboy

Cleverboy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:35:40 +0000

Mo’ Ali. ‘Cause its ghetto. This is the broken down, back of the truck, no refunds, version of the iPhone. Ghet-TO.

By: Mohammad Ali

Mohammad Ali — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:42:51 +0000

ghetto?…Why you say that?

By: Willis

Willis — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:59:00 +0000

Can you say, “ghetto”?

By: Cleverboy

Cleverboy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:09:19 +0000

The HTC product website may simply have been hit too hard, but it performed like garbage. When I was able to demo it however (and navigate through its clumsey presentation), the phone appeared to be almost a carbon-copy of the iPhone’s functionality! And I have to say, I was impressed! From using a thumb to move around a page in Internet Explorer, to flicking contacts quickly… they even added a 3-D edge to it as well, with different sections.

Reading the Crave posting about it however, really set my head back on straight however. It’s most a “launcher” and “skin” for Windows mobile. The UI does not really carry over through the different apps you use, and the memory on the phone and capabilities are surprisingly low, considering HTC has many more feature-packed phones than what the iPhone is limited to.

–Which leads me to thinking that Apple has really figured out a lot to its positioning that other manufacturers see, that we do not. The Meizu miniOne seems to be one of the only iCompetitors that have chosen to EXCEED the iPhone specification to any degee while aping its UI and interface paradigms, and on that count, the jury is still out on whether they will succeed. LG Prada while costing more, is apparently a clear loser to the iPhone.

After contemplating the 6 months of waiting, I was expecting much more of a response than this… at least so far. We’ll see what happens right before and right after the launch. Should be very telling (from real reviews) how Jobs claim of a 5 year lead will hold up. It’s still incomprehensible… but as analysts have begun to note…. the pedigree of a FULL OS X will be a huge differentiator in the months to follow. Many of the things Steve Jobs highlighted about how OS X will benefit the iPhone have barely been hinted at. I’m very interested to understand the advantages of a VPN enabled phone (amongst the host of other things). I get the impression that the beginning of 2008 will see some important differentiators come out of Apple regarding the power of the OSX platform with iPhone.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:26:45 +0000

I have the HTC 8125 and the thing I dislike about it most is all the buttons (side, front) it has.

It seems that every time I go to answer the phone I hit a button by mistake (just by picking it up). The new phone is nice from a touch point of view but I see buttons on it so I would imagine it would be easy to accidently hit one.