[HD2 General] leoni1980:
Ok, I am one of these unfortunate people who has a 'faulty' handset. Actually I have seemingly had 3 faulty handsets since the problems I face are still evident in my newest HD2. Now with respect to the SMS issue, I send HUNDREDS a day. The sms app lags like a ***** once it starts to fill up with messages.

Solution:

Delete threads, problem solved hangups and freeze-ups lessen.

Now this is all well and good, but why should I have to delete message threads? It is called a CONVERSATION view is it not? Not much point in conversation thread capability if you have to keep deleting texts is there? I didn't see this problem occuring in any of my Android phones or the iPhone...

Oh wait, no, Windows Mobile is a complex multifunctional hypertechnosuperduper OS; not a toy like the iPhone. So I'm expected to find a third party solution to the problem because that's what us folk with such high-end gadgetry must do.

Anyway....

The keyboard?

Well I don't know how other people get by but I thought I was quite good at using onscreen keyboards: I beat my supertexter friend hands down typing 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog' on my iPhone (in portrait mode) versus his Touch Pro 2 (hardware keyboard); I'm also damn good with HTC's Hero keyboard....I can type while i'm walking....being shaken about on the bus whilst holding a pile of shopping bags...probably whilst being swung over a ravine attached to the feet of a burning helicopter.

Yes I think it's fair to say I'm very quick with these sort of capacitive touchscreen keyboards.....

But wait....

The HD2 Keyboard seems to have a VERY unforgiving learning curve:

Often the keyboard jumps all over the place if I happen to be a nanometre out of place.....

The cursor LEAPS to the start of the text for no apparent reason when I'm putting three dots together...

I HOLD my THUMB on the backspace and a load of garbled characters appear instead of my text being deleted....

I keep catching the frickin' T9 button unknowingly.....

The predictive 'brain' of the phone interprets my erroneous 'zounds' as BEING 'zounds' instead of doing the bloody LOGICAL THING OF CHANGING IT TO 'SOUNDS'! Since when is 'ZOUNDS' a word anyway for GODS SAKE?!?

What kind of stupid keyboard is this???

Even if I type 'zpinss' on the iPhone it works out that I'm trying to type 'sounds'. The stupid children's toy iPhone seemingly has more brains than our dumbass HD2.

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

But wait....

calm down....

Install a 'patch' to decrease the sensitivity....

HUH???? So I buy my lovely 'First Windows Mobile Phone With A Capacitive Screen (tm)' and then have to DECREASE the sensitivity of it? I don't recall having to do that on the 'iToy/iJoke/iPhoney'. Maybe that was just too rubbish and toylike to necessitate this sort of glorious tech ballache that the man on the street (the multimedia consumer at whom this device is aimed) wouldn't think to do.

So I install it and it helps, but now I have to be extra definite with my keypresses, and I can't rely on the predictive text to work out words unless they have only SLIGHT mistakes in them...it damn sure won't work it out if I miss out a letter or put a 'z' instead of an 's' in 'sounds'!

SO that's my gripe. And before any Windows Mobile fanboy gets on their high horse and starts telling me a load of cliched balderdash about what the iPhone OS/Android can and can't do, may I politely tell them to p**s off.

I know full well what all platforms are capable of and having been a Windows Mobile user for years and years I am fully aware of the fact that Windows Mobile is less than stable, and anyone who claims their phone is the stablest thing since Lord Stable set up home in Stableton Manor in a stable relationship with his equally stable wife in stableford....Well I'm afraid I smell Bulls**t.

How is it that every single Windows Mobile device I've ever owned has suffered frequent crashes, freezes, slowdowns and glitches? We're talking probably 15 devices here.....have some people just got the magic touch, and I have acquired a Windows Mobile hex?

Evidently

Anyway to conclude. I AM keeping my HD2, for the time being at least because despite the problems I DO like it. I love the hardware, the build quality and (with the exception of the abysmal speaker) everything is top notch and of the highest quality. I don't miss texts or have any other problems with disconnects BUT I will say that I live in hope of either an Android port or a 100% stable release for this phone. A release that doesn't stop me saving as many SMS as I like and allows me to fully enjoy the HD2 for the magnificant hardware that it is.