Peter Chou launches HTC HD2, insults iPhone and calls Microsoft HTC's Strongest Partner

18. prettyboy1974 posted on 07 Nov 2009, 23:17 0 0

Are you serious?

19. Kiltlifter posted on 08 Nov 2009, 02:14 0 0

because it directly pull competition from their precious iPhone. Apple wouldn't be too happy about that and steve jobs might cry himself to sleep at night. I hope everyone gets this phone like they did with the TP2. T-mo, sprint, AT&T and VZW. Hopefully this would be enough to squash apples iPhone (which i don't care for becuase I hate everything Apple). Maybe it will have the same success in the US that the iPhone has in france, where 40% of everyone has the HD2, but that will never happen b/c you WinMo haters out there are too lazy to learn the most powerful OS on a phone and go with your stupid blackberry (which is designed for stupid people to feel like they are cool becuase they have a pda), and your iPhones (which is designed for people who think they are cool and need a phone to make them that way). Sorry, but I just don't like Apple or RIM. But to each their own. Apple for macintosh tools, blackberry for easy use, Android if you do all the google stuff (which I think is cool), and Windows for people who prefer to be backed by the largest software company in the world, that provides every user free email, online storage, their own social network (that is doing horribly compared to facebook, haha), and a myriad (for you RIM users that means A LOT) of other things. BTW RIM = Research In Motion

20. sugarpopz posted on 08 Nov 2009, 06:20 0 0

If it were not for Apple, Google or RIM, would MS be scrambling to try to push WM7 asap? Competition is a GREAT thing for consumers. The Apple iPhone is just not a fancy looking phone. It also has APPLICATIONS that people actually use. I have an iPod Touch and I download software that is both useful for school and work. Yes, there are a bunch of crapware in the APP store, but there are also gems. There are also software that can change the landscape of technologies/devices used in the health industry. RIM make phones that are great for e-mailing and connecting people (BB messenger) across continents via BIS. There are reasons why many corporate and small-medium business companies use RIM phones. "When you mention people are too lazy to learn the most powerful OS on the phone..." Most powerful OS? You can certainly do a lot with WM, but to call it the most powerful OS on the phone is to say that you are a MS fanboy or you are just plain ignorant. The OS is also very inefficient with managing memory and power. WinMo 6.5 improves upon that, but there is still a lot of work left. I don't think the vast majority of people out there want to waste their time WinMo, nor would they care because there are tons of other products out there that makes life easier for them. There is enough going on in their lives. Where would WinMo phones be without HTC? HTC's development team of understand what consumers want in the the UI and what they want to experience when they pick up their phones. It is about market appeal, something you do not understand. Can you tell me why there are more computers with Windows installed than there are Linux? I think the answer has to do usability for the masses. WinMo phones are not there yet. Apple, Google & RIM make for a healthy ecosystem.

24. trentsinmypants posted on 08 Nov 2009, 10:56 0 0

Oh snap son, it looks like sugarpopz just served you! Well said my friend......I agree with everything you just posted :D

29. Kiltlifter posted on 08 Nov 2009, 17:12 0 0

I never said WinMo was awesome on its own did I. HTC has made of 60 million windows mobile phones in their lifetime. HTC = Windows Mobile. I believe in HTC and what they have done for windows mobile. They made the first WinMo device, first WinMo phone, First Capacitive Screen on WinMo, First Android Phone, they are the market first and they are the best and they do it with multiple devices for multiple carriers in every single market around the world. HTC does everything. The shift can boot vista business or WinMo 6.1, now that is innovation! So don't you "on SNAP SON" me. Did I say that no one should own an Apple iPhone? NO I DID NOT! I said that "I" (as in me myself and I) do not like anything apple and I don't like the users that have one. Did I say that no one should have a blackberry phone even though I don't like them? NO I DID NOT! I made fun of the users that own them becuase I talk to waaay to many ignorant morons that refer to their "BLUE"berry and the blatant TM logo for the Blackberry as the "PAW PRINT"! REALLY!? I like Android and I like the open source linux based platform. I say that windows mobile is the most powerful operating system becuase of all of the functionality it does out of the box without having to add "APPS" or purchase $1000's of dollars of additional server licenses for corporate syncing of your Microsoft Outlook Exchange Active Sync service that your WinMo phone does already, with more devices licenses for free, no additional 3rd party to go through. And yes, I am a big Microsoft fan and it should be blatantly obvious. People talk about their Storm like it is the best thing in the world when I personally think it is a big piece of crap. I don't like Apple becuase they whine and cry and bitch all the time about microsoft, then lock down their OS tighter than anything and charge redicilous licensing fees for official software. "But Kiltlifter there are 1000s of apps in the iPhone app store." Answer: "But moron, there are 20 3rd part software developers for macintosh computers and 1000s for microsoft so it is waaaaay easier for a starter company to publish and get successful, and like sugarpopz said, Driver competition to innovate and create a better experience for everyone. I don't see apple allowing competition. So don't you dare talk to me like i don't know what i am talking about.

30. Kiltlifter posted on 08 Nov 2009, 17:16 0 0

In summary, Sugarpopz I agree with what you wrote, as I didn't fully write everything that was needed to clarify my post +1. Trents, -1 because you most likely own an iPhone or a blackberry, enough said.

34. CRICKETownz posted on 09 Nov 2009, 18:23 0 0

I think the only official way to tell who got served tho is for them to dance battle....

21. sugarpopz posted on 08 Nov 2009, 06:23 0 0

Agreed!

37. dbdanny89 posted on 10 Nov 2009, 10:40 0 0

I agree. I have always been fond of HTC and their phones.

7. artz1986 posted on 07 Nov 2009, 13:38 0 0

I'm beginning to wonder why at&t would have a problem w/ having another device in their line up that could go toe to toe w/ the iPhone. Think about it, what's better, having a BMW in your garage that would 'destory' the Merc down the road, having a Merc in your garage that would 'destory' the Beamer down the road, or having both? If anyone would have a prob w/ at&t getting this it would be apple, but seeing how att's exclusivity w/ the iPhone is coming to an end, what does att care? It's all logical... ....and if you want a phone w/ a network that works, you can get one from vzw, AT&T, sprint, tmobile, us cellular, metropcs, virgin mobile, boost, criket..so on and so on and so on....

12. tedkord posted on 07 Nov 2009, 16:40 0 0

Faulty analogy. Owning the two beasts is one thing. I would have no problem owning both phones. However, if I were selling the iPhone, and it was one of my best sellers, would I want to insult Apple by throwing my support behind another phone - especially one that is unproven? Apple may then decide to take their next big thing elsewhere.

33. remixfa posted on 09 Nov 2009, 09:05 0 0

umm.. winmo isnt unproven dodo. . and they have winmo phones now. not taking a phone because it might take sales away from the iphone is rediculous. in the end, att would make the sale either way. the more choice they have the more sales they have. apple doesnt control att (hopefully.. lol). windows phones are powerful but they are also out dated. they have been surpassed by every other smartphone OS and are playing catch up. it happens to everyone. technically the iphone while having superior browsing features is well behind other smartphones in many areas... even 3 generations in. its all about preference. but if it werent for HTC, winmo on a phone would be a rarity... lol :)

8. bucky posted on 07 Nov 2009, 14:24 0 0

you guys keep on saying "this is 5 times better than the iphone....OH WAIT! no no THIS is waaaaaaaaaay better than the iphone...." Hold off on the iphone bashing until it actually comes out in case u guys havent learned your lesson the first 20 times......

9. E.N. posted on 07 Nov 2009, 15:08 0 0

That's exactly what I was thinking and I don't think I could have said it any better. People still haven't learned to just wait before a phone is released to start comparing. But anyways, we still are going to have to go through this whole iPhone killer thing all over again. And the iPhone doesn't even have the biggest screen in the market. The droid, some T-mobile camera phone, and another Toshiba phone do, so I don't understand the point of having the iPhone up there.