HTC facing tough times in the near future
0. phoneArena posted on 06 Feb 2012, 04:14
HTC was the pure emanation of an Android success story up until nearly the end of 2011 when something in the system broke, and the Taiwanese company stumbled…
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1. rf1975 posted on 06 Feb 2012, 04:46 15 3
When its come to built quality, HTC is far better than Samsung, Nokia or Motorola. It is bad to see them going down. We hope they will inovate and be "quitely brilliant".
3. sadaivadai posted on 06 Feb 2012, 05:29 7 9
But in build quality HTC is not greater than Nokia ..
9. remixfa posted on 06 Feb 2012, 09:47 2 7
nor is it greater than Samsung. people need to get off the plastic vs tin "build quality" and get real. glass breaks and tin dents. samsung phones are dropped and survive. HTC and Apple dont. Thats real world build quality.
14. theindianguy posted on 06 Feb 2012, 11:17 4 1
i am usually on your side of the argument but this time i kinda disagree with you. 1st there is no proof that htc cant survive drops from the same height as that of the gs2, and 2nd is that you like samsung faar too much to hear something against it.
Peace.
17. remixfa posted on 06 Feb 2012, 12:03 3 5
truth is in the drop tests. HTC and apple use glass and tin. I WORK in the industry. Do you know what brand I see return the most with cracked screens? HTC. Almost all of samsung's phones use gorilla glass. Almost all of HTC's phones use regular glass. Plastic is better on drops than tin as it helps absorb vibrations more. Ever watch the large SGS2 vs the little iphone4s in a drop test? technically the SGS2 should lose because of its size allowing larger vibrations, but it doesnt. why? build quality and better build materials.
I am a fan of tech. Right now, samsung has it and no one can top them. The only build quality i care about is real life durability, not some preconcieved notions about the "higher quality" of glass and aluminum over plastic. Guess what, more than likely your covering that aluminum with a plastic case anyways... so it makes no difference.
I'm accident prone and I have kids. I'll take samsungs "build quality" over the others any day, as my SGS has proven time and time again that it is the superior device.
21. systamatics posted on 06 Feb 2012, 13:06 1 1
Lol!! HTC never used glass for any of their phones!
22. ojdidit84 posted on 06 Feb 2012, 15:39 0 0
You see remixfa, at times you make some good points and I'm right there with you, and then you go and throw out baseless drivvle that you've obviously made up off of the top of your head and turn into Taco winding up your Samsung fanboy mill making fake claims to try and make your point stick.
http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/products-with-gorilla/htc
All HTC (albeit mostly the same phones under different carriers under different names) using Gorilla Glass.
You work for T-mobile and see roughly a quarter of the issues that are dealt with by consumers that come into YOUR place of work.
Those things aside, I agree that people are confused about what "premium materials" are. Sure metal and glass are nice, but do people really expect a metal phone to be more durable and absorb more impacts than plastic? Take a look at the number of cracked iPhones you see compared to a Samsung, HTC or Motorola phone. Don't see that many do you. Samsung did "platicky" right...
24. remixfa posted on 06 Feb 2012, 16:25 0 0
if it wasn't from the corning site I wouldn't believe it. the king of cracked screens is HTC. I see more HTC screens cracked than any other by far... and for the last year tye top sales have all been samsung sgs1 and sgs2 devices. don't be foolish enough to think that my knowledge base ends at my store.
if its not the type of glass that's different then its the thickness or how HTC is putting their phones together... because those phones break... often. HTC also doesn't advertise corning as a feature on the box or promo materials like Samsung does which is why I didn't think it used it.
ha... as I typed this a customer came in with a freshly cracked sgs2 that he tossed on the parking lot
31. ladyhaly posted on 07 Feb 2012, 18:04 0 0
Btw, working for T-Mobile doesn't mean a thing here because sales reps usually are more clueless than the rare tech consumers they do have. How many tech reps have persuaded people to buy iPhones "because it's the best phone out there"? How many tech reps even understand the pros and cons between Symbian, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7? Even webOS or Bada?
You don't even know the simple fact that HTC uses Corning Gorilla Glass. They have been doing it for years. YEARS. And you mean to tell me that I, a female nurse working my ass off taking care of patients 48 hours a week and not working for a carrier or any other gadget shop, knows that HTC, Samsung, Apple, Motorola, Nokia, and even Sony Ericsson all use Gorilla Glass while you who works for T-Mobile doesn't?
YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS SIMPLE FACT.
By the way... Is it me, or have I seen you from DotaPortal Forum before? Don't you just miss being bashed around by Kaizen?
25. JEEPOFFROADV8 posted on 06 Feb 2012, 16:28 3 0
you sir are a idiot! lol i have owned and returned 2 samsung gs2's and they are cheap, sorry i know that hurts!! but its there gps issues that still plague there so called high end phones. And its funny how there phones copy the iphone in design and software.
28. blaze456 posted on 06 Feb 2012, 17:40 0 0
you are right alot of my friends with htc and apple phones screens are broken from falls..im guessing metal and glass on a phone dont go good together
30. ladyhaly posted on 07 Feb 2012, 17:56 0 0
Wrong. HTC uses Gorilla Glass. Corning Gorilla Glass. Would you like me to pull up the Corning Gorilla Glass stating which HTC devices have Gorilla Glass in it?
Get your facts straight. You said so many things and yet managed to look stupid both at the same time.
2. jcpwn2004 posted on 06 Feb 2012, 05:09 5 0
HTC is releasing way to many of the same phone. It needs to slow down and release quality products with support for more than a couple months.
4. digitalw posted on 06 Feb 2012, 05:39 2 0
yestaurday i droped y brother phones, HTC Wildfire S and Nokia N8. When they droped on the stairs and take their "jurney".. on the end, the nokia was alive and there was nothing except one scratch on the back cover. The HTC had broken (plastic) parts :( If that would be Samsung and droped from that hight, i shoud buy a new phone.. i was lucky ;)
6. Firedrops posted on 06 Feb 2012, 07:42 2 0
The Wildfire S is a budget phone, so it's a given that they will have to reduce production costs as much as they can, in this case even to the case material itself. The N8 was released as a symbian flagship of its time. You're like comparing a Toyota to a BMW here.
10. remixfa posted on 06 Feb 2012, 09:49 1 0
that makes no sense what so ever. the samsung would still be alive. I fling my SGS1 around the store all the time to prove its build quality and have never replaced it since the day it came out. that HTC Wildfire is the biggest POS on the market and its made out of cheap plastic and a horrid build quality. I absolutely refused to sell that phone while it was in store.
15. ngo2dd posted on 06 Feb 2012, 11:53 3 1
Ya and my friends Naxus S has a crack screen from a drop. You out of all people should know that it is the angle of the drop that has more to do with it. I drop my 3D on a parking lot group and nothing happen to it. So much for your Samsung build quality. We all know your a samsung fan boy to keep it to yourself
18. remixfa posted on 06 Feb 2012, 12:04 1 2
i absolutely will not. you can shove that comment where it counts. thanks.
did i say that samungs DONT crack? find that statement somewhere please. they are however much less likey to crack than an HTC because of the difference in build. preconcieved vs actual quality.
20. jimeliz posted on 06 Feb 2012, 12:53 1 1
I'll side with remixfa here.I work for a phone carrier's warranty department and I never had an issue with Samsung phones breaking physically(cracks,dents,etc.).
32. ladyhaly posted on 07 Feb 2012, 18:19 1 0
So if the plastic is on HTC's devices, it's "cheap" but if it's on a Samsung it's "premium"? I'm sensing something biased here and the answer is Y-O-U.
