Re: Short memories
I had the HTC too. It was a POS. There was much to like hidden in there, but every diamond was buried in the brown stuff. The volume of brown stuff was made about 10 times worse by O2's skin, which slowed an already slow device to a crawl. Seriously someone in O2 marketing must have employed a bedroom programmer who went on to wholly and completely destroy the device. I cannot convey to anyone how bad the O2 skin performance was. That O2 supplied it was unconscionable. Running vanilla Windows mobile greatly improved things, but still performance was bad. The browser was so bad as to be virtually unusable. The iPhone, which I also bought when it came out, was way, way, ahead in terms of experience. It was never about the features, always the experience.
I used to call the HTC the Soap-on-a-Rope because when the mini USB cable was plugged in (or whatever cable it had - I think it was mini USB), it had exactly the dimensions of a Soap on a Rope.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
