[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] undac:
First of all, thank you for calling me a stupid ****. I really liked that. Seeing as HTC are ****ing me in the ass currently I can only gladly take your **** up there as well seeing as I'm too dialated to even mind.

Personally I live in country that's not the US (yes these places actually do exist) and over here I have two options. I can get a long term binding contract with an operator and buy the phone at a third of it's street price or I can buy the phone in cash. Buying the phone in cash is roughly 7000 kronor over here (Sweden by the way), a dollar is, hmm let's see 7 kronor. So I guess I paid $1000 which makes me a stupid ****.

Thank you, no one never actually told me that I am an ignorant penis before. I'm sure glad you enlightened me!

Which of course, by any sound reasoning, makes any glaring faults totally acceptable.

Yes indeed I'm glad you brought the light here.

Besides why would anyone work against us.

If we do get the drivers out the door: then you get an even better device.

If we don't get the driver: you can laugh yourself to death and make funny faces at us for trying so hard.

You simply have nothing to gain by complaining about us wanting 2D/3D/Video support and a responsive touchscreen so that our devices stop getting embaressed by older and much cheaper hardware.

Sure it has a lot of stuff.

I can tuck on a gps, a CD-changer, a computer, cellphone and microwave oven on my bike, it's still not going to be a Mercedes.

The opposite is also true, that new Ferrari probably won't have half the features and gadgets that a cool new Mercedes have.

Problem is, HTC are pushing that this is a performance and feature device (ie the middle path in the example above: the mercedes). It's clearly not. It gets spanked even by it's older and cheaper siblings.

And no, having a built in GPS does not make me feel any better about that no matter how much I like to see that TomTom software chug along at 3 frames per second or so...

Have you even read HTC.com, the product leaflet or anything else?

I think you'll notice that this is actually the first sentence of all of them:

"More powerful than any mobile communications device you've seen before"

If they said "More feature packed" then that's one thing. Guess what, they didn't.

So ok, I'm not a stupid person. I clearly understand that I cannot trust marketing speeches.

I understand that of course they will say it's the most powerful mobile communicator. Because it's THEIR most powerful mobile communicator. And when I buy the damned thing it turns out it's not even HTCs most powerful mobile communicator.

Yeah, I like to put that in my pipe and smoke it.

HTC f'ed me in the b-hole, good for me!

And sure, I deserve it:

After all it has a non functioning camera, built in GPS with software that is underperforming to the point where it's useless in crossings because the screen isn't even updated until after I've already turned, it captures video at a whopping ~10 fps, I can barely play the videos my clients send me for approval, I bought this nice game called legend of seel but I can't play it because it uses the touch screen for controls and that pretty much makes the device grind to a halt, video calls pretty much makes me dizzy from the juddering framerate and judging by comments from the recieving end the video that my TyTN II spits out doesn't look to hot either. Did I mention that browsing non-mobile webpages is painfully slow, especially when scrolling? That's really good for me seeing as I run a website. Guess what, that's my work. My business. Yet even my old crappy cheap ass, brick sized sony ericsson 3g phone renders these pages faster and scrolls through them without any major hiccups.

To top it all of, the geat HDSPA support with 7.2 mbps speeds doesn't really do much for me. See my Kaiser tops out at 1.2 mbps both when surfing on the device and when using it as a modem connected to my laptop. (Using my regular HDSPA modem with the same SIM in the same location grants me roughly 5 mbps, that modem didn't even advertize HDSPA functionality, it came tacked on as a surprise patch later on since they probably wanted their customers to be happy.)

So yeah of course, all this is acceptable.

I'm using it wrong. It's a business phone. That means I can only expect it to do e-mailing, office mobile and regular phone calls and sms. All other features are to be considered an added bonus and I should be glad if they even kind of work, because HEYYYYY something is better than nothing right?

All business users are 50 year old men who crunch numbers and write e-mails in plain unformatted text to inform their colleagues of the next meeting.

Ahhhh I finally realized how incredibly outrageous I am to ask HTC for some after-sale support on this. I should just rub some lotion on my sore butthole and get on with my life.

Thanks for making me realize, you're a true friend!

Hugs and Kisses

PS. this was all in good fun, I'm not as upset as it may seem. I was just a bit bored. ;)