HTC comes crawling back with Lumia envy
Well well well, look who we have here at the front door with folded letter in hand. Neowin dropped a piece on what HTC’s president Jason Machenzie had to say to Reuters.
"I feel very strongly we’ve got very concrete carrier support in every region around the world including the United States, and I’m not talking about just one carrier," Jason Mackenzie, HTC’s president of sales and marketing, told Reuters.
HTC puts that in contrast to Nokia, which failed to mention any specific plans for carriers at its recent New York Window Phone event, despite showing off some impressive hardware in the form of the Lumia 820 and 920. On the other hand, we can’t help but notice that Mackenzie didn’t really go into specifics about HTC’s ‘concrete carrier support.’
There’s some very good news for Windows Phone fans here; HTC says that it’s also committed to bringing out some of its best industrial design talent in support of Windows Phone. "[We’ve got] a unique (industrial design) language for Windows Phones, a language that can be held up by Microsoft as a flagship." That’s not something that other Android-centric OEMs, who look at Windows Phone as a secondary product (at best), can say.
Oh, you feel “very strongly” now do you? Perhaps as strong as the stench from those garbage Windows Phone devices HTC has been pushing out? Interesting, Nokia walks in the front door with a hell of a design and game plan and all of a sudden it’s a OEM violin committee. Well, good news is, I still like you HTC, I like you enough to believe you can actually innovate past the Google sweets. Lets wait and see what they pull out of the hat!
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Previous junky HTC hardware and non-existent support or updates will not fool me into buying whatever crap they sell when WP8 is released. It’s time for Nokia to take away the rest of HTC’s Windows Phone market share.
HTC is dead to me. I will not give them another chance.
I have been using HTC Radar since it was introduced and have no issue with it. My experience with HTC support in Singapore here is very good.
Though I must say that I am tempted to go for the Nokia 820 when it is available as it fits my requirement nicely.
@Lai C V: I had the Surround, followed by the Focus S and then Lumia 900. The Surround was ok, until I had the latter two. In comparison the Surround is junk.
I loved my Fuze – it was a Very Solid device. I love my Surround for the same reason.
I’m going to wait and see what HTC brings to the table. But Nokia certainly is a Don Juan of WP devices at the moment.
HTC has been peddling out crap. The only wp7 option I have is the trophy,as much as I love the os I hate the hardware just as much. After one year,4 screens later and completely busted speaker, all I have left is a poorly made phone held together literally by a hard cased cover. I can not wait to get my hands on whatever Nokia comes to verizon
I use to have the iPhone 4 and in my opinion is over rated its one of those phones everyone has to have just because every one else has one. The operating system is really not as fluid as Microsoft and the phone to me is really starting to look boring and outdated. The phone is so delicate it needs to be encased in an Otto box or ballistic case so it does not get damage which defeats the purpose of getting the phone for aesthetic purposes in the first place the ordering process of apps sucks. Lumia 900 is by far a better phone even with its lower specs and even the fact it doesn’t have as many apps. And I can’t wait to get my hands on the 820 or 920. I don’t even see HTC as a challenge. People a actually have to use the Lumia for awhile to understand and appreciate it. I will soon be able to use it across platforms like Xbox, Microsoft tablet, and computers which I think is great. Nokia stocks as well as Microsoft stocks are going up. I was hoping for a true edge to edge screen that the phone or tablet actually looks like a slab of glass. I was thinking some sort of plexi glass or bullet proof glass with metal trims around the edges which could be another Nokia concept phone. Microsoft if your listening patent that. I’m not even a fan, Nokia windows is by far a better phone even with a jail broken iPhone.
I was a big fan of HTC but it is my opinion that HTC is old. While Nokia is trying their hardest to make a come back and are doing very well with the Lumia 920.
I say out with the old and in with the new.
Sorry HTC you got too big for your pants.