No more HTC QWERTYs
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Thank you - someone gets it.
I've seen, been sent even, emails from corporate higher ups that read like that (maybe not quite that bad - but damn close) and refuse to sacrifice my professionalism because I have to make do with inefficient hardware.
My primary interest in having a smart phone is as a job necessity. I need to be able to send/receive emails on the spot in a rapidly evolving environment. Take pictures of what's happening and receive updated schematics based on what i'm sending back.
Prior my setup was a laptop, portable printer and digital camera.
In this device I have it all in one spot, and don't need a printer.
Without a hardware keyboard, having to drag around a bluetooth keyboard or something will send me right back to other hardware and drive me out of the smartphone market.
Yes, people who send messages like this do need to be punched in the face - I will agree emphatically with this statement.
Social interaction is being reduced to kindergarten level, even from supposed professional people - and I refuse to be a part of it. If that means the end of my participation in places like this due to a lack of hardware worth working on, then so be it.
Hey i txt like tht and i love my hw keyboard
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It would actually be a saving grace for HTC to adapt such a model. Custom-built phones? Sh*t, sign me up now!
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On the one hand, I really can't believe HTC would do this, but then again, they're really only selling QWERTY phones on T-Mobile and Sprint these days, and who knows how many units they're selling. Moto has that locked up on Verizon with the Droid, and AT&T doesn't (as far as I know) have any HTC QWERTY phones.
On the other hand, the MT4GS has a very 'meh' keyboard. Coming from the MT3GS, I was shocked at how bad the 4G Slide was in comparison to it's predecessor. I got used to it, but I still prefer the old model.
On the other hand, the MT4GS has a very 'meh' keyboard. Coming from the MT3GS, I was shocked at how bad the 4G Slide was in comparison to it's predecessor. I got used to it, but I still prefer the old model.
I agree with what Blue said. I cover sports, and since I've been forced to use an Exhibit for the past few days while I try and find a deal on a MT4GS, my productivity has flat-lined. It's borderline pointless to attempt at dictating or swyping your way to 1,000-3,000 words effectively in a short amount of time. The keyboard is amazingly handy for those with large hands who cannot hunt and peck well at all. That they're dying out and touchscreens are coming in is a damn shame. Even with something like the Galaxy Note (which I played around with the other day), the large screen size is still not as effective as the keyboard. Technology for touchscreen effective typing simply isn't there yet. Apple really has dictated the market into forcing slim phones on everyone. Looks like I'll have to be looking at Blowkia phones from now on, though I really don't want to switch over to Windows phones....
Psst, you just need good marketing. HTC is awful at marketing, and so is T-Mobile. Look at Samsung, people are buying the Note even though it's enormous and has a stylus. If you can't market your product, it's as good as dead. I can't really say that the MT4GS had any marketing, I only know of it because I bother to look.
I'll agree that if you don't market the product it dies. I don't watch tv, even if I had time to do so I didn't have one until I got this phone and only because of the tv-out, it's got no conversion box and gets no channels.
I didn't know this device had no marketing behind it, I was following the snapdragon line and the tv-out thread here sold me on it back in august. I wanted my first smartphone to be the S4 but this device was too good a platform to pass up.
T-mo is stepping up their marketing with the new carly - I'm glad they spent the last few years dumping cash into the network instead of marketing though.
I like the idea of build your own phone - that would be the answer.
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I didn't know this device had no marketing behind it, I was following the snapdragon line and the tv-out thread here sold me on it back in august. I wanted my first smartphone to be the S4 but this device was too good a platform to pass up.
T-mo is stepping up their marketing with the new carly - I'm glad they spent the last few years dumping cash into the network instead of marketing though.
I like the idea of build your own phone - that would be the answer.
Sent from a digital distance.
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Yes Carly <3 
Tmobile always finds the most attractive girls for their campaign. But then again, I am a sucker for brunettes
Tmobile always finds the most attractive girls for their campaign. But then again, I am a sucker for brunettes
You forget the rest of the world. The Desire Z did well (notably better than the G2, I suspect). There are also more than a few of us who wanted a "Sensation Slide" badly enough that we had to get the MT4GS from the US. HTC made a mistake focusing too hard on the US last year and not covering their bases overseas. It is too bad they seem to be drawing the wrong conclusion from that.
Yes Carly <3
Tmobile always finds the most attractive girls for their campaign. But then again, I am a sucker for brunettes
She has a bit of a horse face in the latest commercial.
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No way! Horse face?! That is Sarah Jessica Parker. Carly is way better looking.
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Meh, if she had less makeup on and smiled she would look much better, that is for sure, but even the most beautiful people can take a bad pic.
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2I think enough people are fine with all-touchscreen phones for HTC to do fine.... the article said qwerty sales just aren't cutting it enough for them to continue. In my mind, part of the problem is the keyboards aren't really good enough, but that is just my opinion. For me, I haven't seen a really good keyboard on a device that wasn't branded a Sidekick. But I think more what it is is that the iPhone kinda shaped people's perception, and for some reason people like that form factor. But I also think that some company(s) will step up and realize there is still a market for qwerty phones.
My introduction to smartphones was the old Sidekicks, so to me a smartphone is a mini console or terminal, with keyboard and landscape screen. And I'm gonna keep seeing it that way until there just aren't any more like that..... which perhaps means this might be my last HTC phone!2
When they solve the two problems of:
1 - losing screen real estate to the keyboard, by covering up whatever the screen is displaying by presenting keys to press
2 - the smooth, unbroken surface preventing a differentiation between buttons to press
then i'll be interested.
Until then...2
Even if you didn't make the numbers up, you're still only thinking about this one phone. T-Mobile is just a small user base in itself.
You can blame Steve Jobs for all of this. This asshole thought he could tell people what they wanted and people just ate it up. iPhone didn't need a keyboard so you don't need one. Now you have 99.8% (according to your numbers) ignorant asses just getting whatever they are told to buy (or whatever clever advertising makes them feel like buying).
Hard keyboards are more efficient, plain and simple. People are only getting away without it because they are using retarded English in their text messages:
"dont 4get 2 get bred at store 2nite"
I'm sorry. If you text like that, you need to be punched in the face.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF2011That's a shame - they really had a happy customer in me.
I should get a galaxy with my next paycheck just to start getting used to the samsung way of things.
Motorolla is kinda in limbo until we find out whether Huwai is going to buy them or not from Google...
...who else does that leave? just off brands or low quality losers like LG - every LG phone i've ever owned was a complete and utter POS failure, and would never buy one of their products again, period.
I like HTC, but I guess they don't like me.1
Thank you - someone gets it.
I've seen, been sent even, emails from corporate higher ups that read like that (maybe not quite that bad - but damn close) and refuse to sacrifice my professionalism because I have to make do with inefficient hardware.
My primary interest in having a smart phone is as a job necessity. I need to be able to send/receive emails on the spot in a rapidly evolving environment. Take pictures of what's happening and receive updated schematics based on what i'm sending back.
Prior my setup was a laptop, portable printer and digital camera.
In this device I have it all in one spot, and don't need a printer.
Without a hardware keyboard, having to drag around a bluetooth keyboard or something will send me right back to other hardware and drive me out of the smartphone market.
Yes, people who send messages like this do need to be punched in the face - I will agree emphatically with this statement.
Social interaction is being reduced to kindergarten level, even from supposed professional people - and I refuse to be a part of it. If that means the end of my participation in places like this due to a lack of hardware worth working on, then so be it.
