T-Mobile bribes fanbois to trade iPhone for...Windows Mobile 6.5
T-Mobile has instituted a tried-and-true incentive to induce iPhone users to switch to their HTC HD2: bribery. The wireless carrier, based in Bellevue, Washington - a stone's throw from Microsoft's Redmond digs - will slip apostate iPhone owners $100 to $350 if they trade in their working Cupertinian smartphones for HTC's hot- …
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car industry
imagine Kia bribing Mercedes car owners to abandon their benz for Rio.
a delightful joke indeed.
Yes....
Yes, because that would be a completely accurate analogy.
Especially if...
Especially if the Kia cost more than the Mercedes (as the RRP for the HD2 does compared to the iPhone) and they both got the same review score of 85% on the same website (Reg Hardware in this case).
Oh right... that means it's a perfectly fair comparison and not a joke at all.
Accurate analogy?
Of course your Kia will work quite happily for as long as you want it to at minimal cost, while with the Merc you'll be paying a never ending series of eye-wateringly large bills.
Than again, maybe the analogy holds here too?
Oh.....hang on....HTC hardware? This one's busted.....
Pretty much so
you would have have to be as mad as a hatter to buy a M$ OS on a smart phone
RE: car industry
Perhaps more like Ford bribing Mercedes car owners to take a 1970s Ford Escort instead of their 3 year old Merc...
RE: Pretty Much So...
I must be mad then because I've JUST got a HD2 and it is absolutely awesome. Although I'm not a "fan" of WinMo it, to me, seems like the lesser of three evils. The iPhone is, personally, far too restrictive and side-by-side with the HD2 looks like a Fisher Price style "My First Phone". Android is a no-go as I'm not giving Google access to my "offline" comms as they attempt* to do with my "online" activities.
Besides, the efforts HTC have gone to to hide WinMo are quite amazing really. Yes, you do sometimes get confronted by WinMo but I'd say its only if you are a bit of a nerd wanting to do nerdy things with your phone (like I do!). I reckon someone who just wants to use a kick-ass camera phone with a slick interface, as a camera phone, would very, very rarely, if at all, have to encounter any raw WimMo screens.
* FF and NoScript to the rescue. It staggers me no-end the sheer amount of sites that reference the Google analytics and Google domains.
Let me guess ......
Somebody at T-Mobile got a bit carried away and severely over-ordered.
RE: Let me guess ...
"Somebody at T-Mobile got a bit carried away and severely over-ordered."
Or they believed the MS hype...
<sigh>
The iphone isnt for everyone you know. And there is nothing wrong with WM6.5 it is lightyears ahead of 6.1 and the os of choice for me.
horses for courses I guess.
True, the iphone is not for everyone
because mad-hatters, morons and idiots - are sure to have the opinion that what is pumped out of the Micro$haft sh1t pipe is good.
WM6.5 it is lightyears ahead of 6.1
Cheese wiz on toast is light years ahead of dog crap on a stick but I still don't want any.
Makes Perfect Sense
And they can then sell the iPhones for a profit on the $100 to $350 they paid for them.... Would be even more sensible if they just unlocked the, and put them on retail.
wp7 on hd2
The HD2 can run wp7, well not offically though, the people at xda and htcpedia fourms have shown it, and all the big wigs on it have supported it sayin its not fake, anyways i have my htc and wouldnt change it, especially for the iphone! the screen is massive
Something for US?
Presumably this deal is only valid for customers in the US of A, or perhaps also Canada but not on our side of the pond. Too bad the article makes no mention of this whatsoever.
over here...
Completely separate organizations... Just the names the same...
The handset is just hardware
And the XDA Developer folks have had WinMo7 running and -A-n-d-r-e-x- sorry Android working on the HD2.
SE are doing the same...
SonyEricsson are doing the same in Singapore. They'll give you 650 SGD (about 400 USD) off an X10 if you trade in an iPhone 3GS 16GB. Lower model iPhones get less discounts.
I'd rather have the X10 than the HD2. :)
Does it matter if the HD2 is WM6.5?
It's not as if you could upgrade any version of a WM phone, unless you reflashed it with homebrew software which is not supported under the guarantee, i.e. exactly the same as what you'd need to do to go from WM6.5 -> WP7.
Not so
TMobile UK released a 6.1 -> 6.5 upgrade for their Compact V last year, so whilst official upgrades are rarer than a truthful politician, they aren't totally unheard of...
It's true.
It's certainly true that iPhone owners covet the HD2 - an iPhone owning colleague here in the office won't stop bugging me to show him stuff on my HD2 and he's certainly gagging to ditch his iPhone.
Perhaps this deal is for him.
Its the same over here...
An iPhone owning colleague now wants an HD2 after seeing mine. He agrees that the HD2 makes the iPhone look like a Fisher Price style "My First Phone"
Why?
I don't understand this. I'd expect to pay a modest fee to trade in and upgrade a phone. You're saying the phone company pays their own customers to upgrade? Why?
Or... are they paying other-company customers upfront to switch to them?
You know how when a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true?
annoying on two counts
firstly that just continues the precedent of phone companies shafting their existing loyal customers who are dumb enough to be on contract by making them pay retail - and even if I was due a new phone the discounts are still not as good as for a new incoming customer... and to rub salt in the wound they'll now pay for you to dump your fruitphone as well. greee
secondly the HD2 while a lovely slab of a phone is lumbered with a lot of the HTC front-end which while really pretty is a bit of a dog for performance and stability and if this is just a base 6.5 device that means it's 3 service packs behind (according to XDA Developers the current builds are 6.5.3, and it's in the SE Faith - http://www.unwiredview.com/2010/02/02/sony-ericsson-aspen-faith-with-wm-6-5-3-officially-announced/)
I'm not an iPhone fan, and I'd love a T-Mo HD2 (because they've got different 3G to everyone else in the US so it limits the choices) but when it looks like I'll need to pay more than I did for my first car...
Good luck with that..
I had to use an XDA with 6.1 (6.5 is just a bit of a stop gap hack of 6.1) and it really does make you realise what a pile of rubbish Windows Mobile (touch screen version) is.
It's so 1990s.
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