What does HTC have against a 3.5" VGA touchscreen with hardware video acceleration ?

[Noam23]

Aren't you tired of their tiny 2.8" QVGA screens with software video acceleration ?, how many years will they keep coming up with it and we'll keep buying it like hotcakes ?

Most of us would kill for a phone with the exact features that I've written in the subject line (on top of the current features of the Kaiser/Cruise) that runs Windows Mobile, yet HTC fails to deliver it.

Why ?

I mean, there is a huge market eagerly waiting for such phone (at *any* price), the technology is here for more than a year, so what's keeping them from making it ?

The Xperia is not the answer, since it's not a 3.5" screen, and according to current understanding it does not have hardware video acceleration (again!).

If any device that carries the name "Tytn" or "Touch" automatically gets a tiny 2.8" QVGA screen with software video acceleration, maybe it's time to ditch these names and come up with new family names for products that fit the technology state that we're in, and not the state that we were at 2005 !!!

[worksofart]

so far, we already have the 3.5" VGA screen from the Universal...I would pay 700 € for a touch cruise with the screen of the universal!!!!
How can I use a touch screen if the icons are even difficult to select by stylus???

[Noam23]

If only someone would have made bootcamp drivers for the new 3G iPhone, so it could run WM... I would have ditched HTC in a heartbeat.

[Rudegar]

and add a micoSD card to iphone too

[Menneisyys]

If only someone would have made bootcamp drivers for the new 3G iPhone, so it could run WM... I would have ditched HTC in a heartbeat.

Note that the iPhone will also receive Java support. The iPhone 2G (!) chipset itself, as I've already elaborated on it, has 3D HW acceleration; with a MIDlet manager supporting it, the platform can become a decent gaming platform.

[Rudegar]

"and according to current understanding it does not have hardware video acceleration (again!)."

as of yet it's only speculation what the final software platform of the Xperia will bring

[Menneisyys]

and according to current understanding it does not have hardware video acceleration (again!).



Not necessarily - have you read my devoted article?

[miljbee]

go on ebay and buy an x51v. Sorry, it's not a phone !

:D

[kingsizeriz]

Wow, someone really hates htc.. 3 threads of htc bashing...

Aren't you tired of their tiny 2.8" QVGA screens with software video acceleration ?,

not really no... i think its a good size for a wmphone. i had the wizard -> universal and i much prefered the design of the wizard so i upgraded imo from the universal -> hermes.

[tft]

these are pda phones, not a portable entertainment center.

sure it would be cool to have a better video support, and 3.5" screen would probably be cool too, but way too big after you factor in the actual size of the device.

people want smaller phones and they probably don't see a huge demand for larger screens.. honestly, im happy with the touch screen size.. i wouldn't want it any bigger as the device would have to be twice as big.

not to mention bigger power consumption, etc..

what they need to do is make better batteries.. with the technology these days we should be able to go days without a charge..

they can send spacecrafts to the other side of the universe and have it orbit another world but they can't make better batteries.

anyway, i can go on and on....

[Rudegar]

"they can send spacecrafts to the other side of the universe"
no they cant they can barely send them to the other side of the solar system

"sure it would be cool to have a better video support, and 3.5" screen would probably be cool too, but way too big after you factor in the actual size of the device."

thats about the size of the iphone plenty of people want that for now anyway

"what they need to do is make better batteries"
agree'd not just for phones but laptops too

[atomixpaintball]

Here you go: HTC's new phone with a VGA screen codenamed Raphael:

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2008/04/htc-diamond-raphael-04-sm.jpg


Raphael features a full QWERTY deal and is destined to replace the Mogul. The paperwork's pretty blurry, but it appears that this Windows Mobile device will feature WiFi, 3 megapixel cameras, and -- get this -- VGA displays. Goodness! The Raphael is currently lined up to be the first out of the gate, hitting the streets in September.

Its going to be launched under Sprint

[zakeen]

Do a search on the flame. Thats everything that you have been asking for.

[Noam23]

The Raphael still have the tiny 2.8" screen (why ???), and we don't know if it has hardware video acceleration.

The O2 XDA Flame is a wonderful device, and I considered it before purchasing the Kaiser, but it does not have GPS. The O2 XDA Flame with GPS (maybe minus several grams) would have been a wonderful device.

[Menneisyys]

The Raphael still have the tiny 2.8" screen (why ???), and we don't know if it has hardware video acceleration.

The O2 XDA Flame is a wonderful device, and I considered it before purchasing the Kaiser, but it does not have GPS. The O2 XDA Flame with GPS (maybe minus several grams) would have been a wonderful device.

Perhaps he has meant the HTC Omni ;-)

[abvmoose]

if I could have a 3.5 vga screen id be one happy camper.
Too bad diamond and raphael will have 2.8.
Oh well, maybe next year

[speedblaster@yahoo.com]

Aren't you tired of their tiny 2.8" QVGA screens with software video acceleration ?, how many years will they keep coming up with it and we'll keep buying it like hotcakes ?

Most of us would kill for a phone with the exact features that I've written in the subject line (on top of the current features of the Kaiser/Cruise) that runs Windows Mobile, yet HTC fails to deliver it.

Why ?

I mean, there is a huge market eagerly waiting for such phone (at *any* price), the technology is here for more than a year, so what's keeping them from making it ?

The Xperia is not the answer, since it's not a 3.5" screen, and according to current understanding it does not have hardware video acceleration (again!).

If any device that carries the name "Tytn" or "Touch" automatically gets a tiny 2.8" QVGA screen with software video acceleration, maybe it's time to ditch these names and come up with new family names for products that fit the technology state that we're in, and not the state that we were at 2005 !!!
If sources are right then, your request for a large screen may just be answered by HTC with not an 3.5 but a 4inch, that right 4 inch, screen in the HTC Omni.
http://mobilitysite.com/2007/07/htc-omni-details-leaked/
But as people mentioned earlier in this thread, it's going to be big, and i'm not sure that's a good thing.