…is almost exactly how long my HTC Touch Diamond lasted before I reverted to my iPhone (even though it has a cracked screen).
Now before you get on your high horse and accuse me of being a close-minded iPhone lover. I hate Apple, deeply hate them. I really wanted this phone to work. Minutes after turning it on though I feared the worse - but I persevered, hoping, pleading with the thing to be better.
But it just wasn’t the case.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s better than many devices, it’s just about 10 steps back from the iphone.
Pros:
Nice idea for the interface, very sexy
MMS
3mb camera with video
Lovely form factor
Text wrap when browsing
Cons:
Text input is horrid
Browsing is not nice, very frustrating
No headphone jack
Interface is very… very sluggish
Very limited multi-media support
Generally buggy
I hate to say it, but bring on the 22nd July, despite myself I’ll be in the queue for the biggest non-event in phone history…!
June 28th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Go and try the E71….
June 30th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Shoulda listened to you in the first place, eh!
July 1st, 2008 at 6:19 am
Its funny that one doesn’t equate Europe with technology… its a kind of bias… America an Asia are apparently the only ones that matter… but then you look at high end electronics and Europe roolz the roost… Americans sometimes steal Europeans and rebrand them as their own (Jonathan Ive anyone?) but I was at Cebit the other day and can honestly say that Europe’s high tech leads the US and Asia by miles.
And as for listening to me Rich, I think that you might have taken a knock by the Jobsian Reality Field Distorter, even though you dislike Apple… we are all only human. The nice thing about Nokia Products though are that they are humbly superior and wont push themselves on anyone like an iPhone viral add… they just hang around and as opposed to distorting reality they just act cool and create reality.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
dude that’s seriously disappointing - and there I was thinking that I’d be non-conformist with a phone like this… Bring on the garmin nuvifone then?
July 6th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Rich, not a single i-Mate (or HTC) has ever been major glitch-free when it’s come to market. There’s a painful price (frustration and loss of productivity) involved each time. And with monontonous regularity I’ve been sucker enough to be an early adopter. No longer. I got the WM 6.1 upgrade on my TyTn II which has ironed out most of the bugs (the worst was the Bluetooth connection in the car) and I’ll probably also go Apple when I need something new.
The obession with first to market has been sanctioned by the implicit Bill Gates ‘OK to debug on the consumer’ dictum. Tres irritating.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:29 am
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