[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] GSLEON3:
Here is a letter I just drafted to some US Newsprint Companies; Technology Editors & Newsprint Editors

I focused a a bit of it on the patent infringement suit to hopefully gather further interest.

I beg everyone in the USA to write to the newspapers. You know how much they love to protect us down trodden against the heavy sword of t6he corporate world. They will do a story with enough support.

This weekend I am trying to get a spot with Leo The Tech Guy, Leo Laporte. He has a major radio Tecnology broadcast on Saturdays & Sundays. I urge you all to call in to his show at the US at 1–888–827–5536. He deals with anything with a chip. Not just PC's but PDA's & Cameras, etc...

Check out his website & maybe drop him a line asking for help. His site is: http://techguylabs.com/radio/pmwiki.php

The letter below was sent to:

Los Angeles Times

O.C. Register

The Daily Breaze

To whom it may concern:

Recently I purchase a Windows Mobile PDA/Phone device manufactured by the Taiwan corporation HTC. The device in question is the HTC TYTNII & is also sold as the AT&T 8925 here in the United States. This device was touted to be the “Ultimate PDA/Phone Device” using the Qualcomm MSM7200 & MSM7500 series of processors which were recently at the heart of a patent infringement lawsuit between Qualcomm & Broadcom.

The Devices in question (and there are many) have terrible performance with respect to anything having to do with on-screen rendering & this causes the device to suffer horribly.

I do not want to go into too much detail at this time. However, I would like to reference you to the website that is a grass root effort at a class action lawsuit supported by many thousands of people. This issue has already gotten coverage on all the major news & technology sites, but not one media outlet in the USA has yet to cover the issue. I am hoping you can be the first. Please take a look at the website HTCClassaction.org .

At this website you will see numerous links to other articles, as well as to an online petition that has already garnered nearly 7000 signatures.

I believe that the patent lawsuit may be one of the reasons that HTC is unwilling to resolve this issue. Because they are by court order unable to keep marketing these devices for new business deals, the investigation into the possible resolution of a problem chipset is not financially attractive to them.

This means that there are numerous consumers worldwide that are not getting the service they deserve on a phone/pda with a price range from $400USD to nearly $1000USD. The problem I most have with that is that HTC used these chips & touted there performance with the knowledge that ongoing litigation may render the chips unviable to support & update.

This is an utter travesty being committed worldwide by a greedy corporation. There was a similar upheaval regarding PC Graphics cards not so long ago & the media played a big part in the issues being rectified. I am writing in hopes that you, The L.A. Times, can help to ignite this discussion & bring to light the dirty practices of some technology companies.

I sincerely appreciate your time in considering this issue & I urge you to please check out the HTCClassaction.org website.

Regards,

George Leon

Technology Aficionado