HTC to BREW-up some new phones for Verizon and Sprint in 2010?

I agree that the lines between dumb and smart continue to blur. Cus I just returned an Instinct HD, very good phone hardware. I loved the phones hardware but hated the OS' bugginess. Very capable OS if I didnt know that the definition for a Smartphone was being able to install native applications, I'd have thought it was a smartphone. But i know better and knew I was buying a featurephone that specialized on high res pictures/video. I had issues with having SMS messages crashing the OS when a text came in while I was doing anything else. From listening to music, to replying to emails, if a SMS came in the screen would go all garbled and the phone would hang. Which would lead to it auto rebooting. Which I really wouldnt have had a problem with and I would have dealt with it even at $250 except the last time it did it it also nuked my sms history. So the client I had who was asking me questions about a real estate deal his history disappeared and I couldn't remember what he was asking. That was the last day I could put up with the bugs. Hopefully BREW matures to the point that bugs like this dont happen anymore. I would have wrote it off as a bug between Sprints Mobile Email program and the phones OS, but it would crash out whenever I was "multi-tasking." Doing anything while a sms came in spelled disaster. blah blah blah. So I didnt realize the enV Touch was a BREW based OS. Good to know. Were all the enVs interfaces based on BREW?

Uh sorry buddy, but you've got the wrong article!

I agree with you now. I really like the layout of the Instincts(especially the HDs) BREW OS, however I think Samsung and Sprint would have done a lot better to have just installed Android on the Instinct HD and made a skin for it that looked like the original Instincts layout. I know it would have been just some frowned upon idea, but I would have loved it. I commented above as to how I disliked the bugginess on the IHD. I really think they should have done a different OS on it tho cus it has a back button, home button and a phone button. They would have just had to add a on screen answer button and menu button and could have thrown Android on the Instinct HD. Seriously what a waste of awesome hardware. And for those who might flame me that the IHD has a weak proc inside, on the Instinct owner forums they were discussing that the IHD has the same speed of proc as the G1. So it could have worked. And could you have imagined how everyone would have flipped over the first HD video camera in a US phone being an Android phone? Samsung blew it.