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As much as I hate to admit it, the iPhone is the coolest phone out right now. It's not the best, but it's the coolest. That is how Apple has for so long gotten away with selling an inferior product and beating out all of its far superior competition. The HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro is the first real competitor that raises the bar for Apple.
Go here and look at what the interface is like on this phone. It's the first one I've seen that looks better than the iPhone. It's all 3D and it does the automatically tilt the screen when you rotate the phone thing like the iPhone does. And the phone looks better and you can get it with or without a keyboard. It's also got a tv out so if you get the HTC cable to go with it, you can connect it to a monitor or tv and run a Powerpoint presentation off it, and who knows what else. It's got all the specs of the iPhone and some better: wifi, 3.2 MP camera, memory card slot up to 16GB, Windows Mobile 6.1 (so lots of apps and support), stereo bluetooth, 3G, GPS.
There's going to be some variation of it on all the major carriers this fall, both GSM and CDMA, so anybody can get one. The iPhone would sell a lot more if it wasn't so far out of reach for many people like myself. For me personally, the iPhone is not everything I want and I'll never have the money to get one nor the desire to tolerate Cingular/AT&T screwing up my bill every single month. For me to get an iPhone right now, I'd have to buy out of my Sprint contract, pay up money I owe to Cingular, pay a security deposit to get service with them because I have bad credit, then pay for the iPhone and a more expensive plan every month. I still wouldn't have a keyboard to type on or some of the other things the iPhone still lacks that I value. So there is nothing Apple could ever do to the iPhone that would make it worth the literally $1,000 to $1,500 I'd have to spend to get one. Even if I hadn't screwed Cingular out of the money they tried to screw me out of all those years ago, it'd still be a venture that would cost me many hundreds of dollars. I am certain there are many people out there like me. When you consider that Tmobile will let anyone have service with a contract regardless of their credit with little or no deposit, and Sprint will let anyone on board with a deposit far less than that of Cingular (at least the deposits Cingular demanded a few years ago when I worked at Cingular), this phone being available on all carriers allows it to reach a vast audience that the iPhone doesn't have access to. Also, Sprint still allows customers to upgrade their phone after one year into their contract. They will get less of a discount than someone off contract but they will still get a cheaper price than buying it outright. So, in the example of me, I can spend four figures on an iPhone and enslave myself to a vile company that I despise, or I can spend a third of that or less and get the Touch Pro on the carrier I'm already on.
The HTC Touch Pro is like the iPhone's hotter, more talented sister. It's also the iPhone's less snobby, more slutty sister since it can be had by anyone rather than just the chosen ones as with the biPhone. It's not the first phone to come out that is better than the iPhone. But it's the first to really compete with iPhone's style and surpass all the other wannabes in its availability to everyone. If HTC gets this message across and prices the phone as reasonably as the iPhone 3G, then it will give the iPhone a run for it's money.
Go here and look at what the interface is like on this phone. It's the first one I've seen that looks better than the iPhone. It's all 3D and it does the automatically tilt the screen when you rotate the phone thing like the iPhone does. And the phone looks better and you can get it with or without a keyboard. It's also got a tv out so if you get the HTC cable to go with it, you can connect it to a monitor or tv and run a Powerpoint presentation off it, and who knows what else. It's got all the specs of the iPhone and some better: wifi, 3.2 MP camera, memory card slot up to 16GB, Windows Mobile 6.1 (so lots of apps and support), stereo bluetooth, 3G, GPS.
There's going to be some variation of it on all the major carriers this fall, both GSM and CDMA, so anybody can get one. The iPhone would sell a lot more if it wasn't so far out of reach for many people like myself. For me personally, the iPhone is not everything I want and I'll never have the money to get one nor the desire to tolerate Cingular/AT&T screwing up my bill every single month. For me to get an iPhone right now, I'd have to buy out of my Sprint contract, pay up money I owe to Cingular, pay a security deposit to get service with them because I have bad credit, then pay for the iPhone and a more expensive plan every month. I still wouldn't have a keyboard to type on or some of the other things the iPhone still lacks that I value. So there is nothing Apple could ever do to the iPhone that would make it worth the literally $1,000 to $1,500 I'd have to spend to get one. Even if I hadn't screwed Cingular out of the money they tried to screw me out of all those years ago, it'd still be a venture that would cost me many hundreds of dollars. I am certain there are many people out there like me. When you consider that Tmobile will let anyone have service with a contract regardless of their credit with little or no deposit, and Sprint will let anyone on board with a deposit far less than that of Cingular (at least the deposits Cingular demanded a few years ago when I worked at Cingular), this phone being available on all carriers allows it to reach a vast audience that the iPhone doesn't have access to. Also, Sprint still allows customers to upgrade their phone after one year into their contract. They will get less of a discount than someone off contract but they will still get a cheaper price than buying it outright. So, in the example of me, I can spend four figures on an iPhone and enslave myself to a vile company that I despise, or I can spend a third of that or less and get the Touch Pro on the carrier I'm already on.
The HTC Touch Pro is like the iPhone's hotter, more talented sister. It's also the iPhone's less snobby, more slutty sister since it can be had by anyone rather than just the chosen ones as with the biPhone. It's not the first phone to come out that is better than the iPhone. But it's the first to really compete with iPhone's style and surpass all the other wannabes in its availability to everyone. If HTC gets this message across and prices the phone as reasonably as the iPhone 3G, then it will give the iPhone a run for it's money.
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