Comments on: HTC launches first true iPhone competitor just as Apple is about to take its phone to next level

By: Vitamin Booya

Vitamin Booya — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:15:40 +0000

I would definitely take this over the iPhone, were it not for a near $600 price difference.

By: f0nefan

f0nefan — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:52:18 +0000

i did some search on the web and found that
plemix is selling it 899$(ship b4 30th May)
hi-mobile 939$ (pre-order)
sntraders 868$ (free shipping)
expansys-usa 795$(pre-order)

By: f0nefan

f0nefan — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:10:51 +0000

no doubt that it is the best phone which HTC eve been made
here is the HTC Diamond Vs. Apple iPhone – the ultimate specs comparison

http://www.howardforums.com/sh.....?t=1368238

By: Icar

Icar — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:51:39 +0000

IPhone runs uder BSD OS-system, It runs under fucking Win. I dislike this OS and this PDA!

By: Steve O'Hear, editor

Steve O'Hear, editor — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:14:17 +0000

@ Surur

Great line: “If you use popularity in USA as a measure of success, you must think CDMA, Country music and GW Bush were very successful also.”

Made me smile :-)

On a more serious note, I think Dan’s view of the iPhone is that in terms of overall user experience — not pure feature set — the iPhone has taken a lead. And now that it’s adding parity feature-wise, with 3G and enterprise support, coupled with the fruits that will come with an SDK, the iPhone is ring fencing that lead, or at least attempting to.

However, I think there is a broader problem with all iPhone analysis. On paper, other phones have more going for them, but the subjective real experience of using an iPhone is somehow different and, to lots of people, superior, and yet hard to describe why. It’s not really about “touch” but the UI as a whole.

Having said that, Nokia, for example, makes some very nice devices, with a lot of power and rich features, that better the iPhone. But the UI is looking a little outdated, with too many menu hoops to jump through. That is something which Nokia, along with everybody else, is trying to address in light of iPhone. That’s what Dan is referring to when he says they are on 1.0.

As an example, HTC’s Diamond Touch goes out of its way to *hide* the Windows Mobile UI. Why is that?

By: Surur

Surur — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:47:10 +0000

Wow! What a misguided post. HTC sold 3 million HTC Touch phones in 7 months, and sold 11 million phones in total (with features like 3G and GPS) last year.

This phone offers a completely new user experience, especially visually,while we KNOW iPhone 2 will just continue to offer its boring grid of icons.

This line in particular is laughable:
“the iPhone is poised to enter 2.0-land far ahead of everybody else, especially with a 3G offering, enterprise support, and third-party applications coming soon”

The iPhone is FINALLY CATCHING UP with its competitors with 3G, enterprise support and 3rd party apps. How this takes them far ahead is incomprehensible.

If you use popularity in USA as a measure of success, you must think CDMA, Country music and GW Bush were very successful also.