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    News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    Morgan Stanley says only aggressive pricing can steal sales from Apple and Samsung.
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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    what htc need more than anything else is some quality control paricularly with regard to the software side of things,less quantity, more quality. my last3phones are desire, desire z and sensation, but my next phone will not be an htc.

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    Quote Originally Posted by geoffmail500 View Post
    what htc need more than anything else is some quality control paricularly with regard to the software side of things,less quantity, more quality. my last3phones are desire, desire z and sensation, but my next phone will not be an htc.
    100% agree with you
    Ever since the Sense 3.0 update on my Desire HD, it's been slower and buggier than ever.
    And with the last minute cancellation of ICS, there is now way I'm forgiving them.

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    I agree. My HTC is really slow and a lot more buggy than it was when I got it. My next phone won't be HTC either.

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    I have had a lot of issues with my sensation also, as well as with my Desire HD before. My next phone is also not going to be a HTC!

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    With Windows Phone 7.5 at least, manufacturers can't make the os buggy meaning that every single Windows Phone operates the same - without crashing and locking up.

    I assume Windows Phone 8.0 will be the same which means people only have to worry about HTC hardware.
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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    Quote Originally Posted by cameronlite View Post
    I assume Windows Phone 8.0 will be the same which means people only have to worry about HTC hardware.
    Well, there are any number of ways HTC and MS could screw this up, but I'm inclined to agree. My inexpensive Windows 7.5 Phone works like a charm, and it gets better with every update (unlike my iPhone 3G, that only ever got slower and slower).

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    I have an HD7, and I won't be going HTC again, the build quality is so terrible. Nokia and Samsung look like far better options.
    As cameronlite says, the OS is incredibly stable, it hasn't crash once in 2 years like my previous and current Iphone, which seem to like to crash and lockup constantly.

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    Quote Originally Posted by ChuckyDB View Post
    100% agree with you
    Ever since the Sense 3.0 update on my Desire HD, it's been slower and buggier than ever.
    And with the last minute cancellation of ICS, there is now way I'm forgiving them.
    My desire HD has been fine during its 2 years life. To expect the ICS update was a little ambitious considering ICS is designed for multicore processors. I have no issue with HTC and their software support. Phones has worked well and the intial bugs were ironed out.

    The biggest issue for HTC is they keep making the same mistakes with their high end phones. Rubbish batteries and rubbish speakers.

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    I've got an unofficial Cyanogen Mod 10 (i.e. Jelly Bean) nightly running on my Desire HD and it's very smooth and stable. I think that shows that HTC's problem was with their own Sense software not with Android 4.x.

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    My Desire S is on stock rom. Could someone recommend a Rom that is faster and better battery life?

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    Quote Originally Posted by MarisAnder View Post
    HTC went from being the most developer and community friendly OEM to a complete joke.
    That was my reading of the situation too. Which is a shame since being "developer friendly" doesn't seem to involve that much effort - in fact you seem to have to exert yourself to be "unfriendly" by developing locked bootloaders etc.

    Never owned an HTC phone myself, but I've Desire'd (pun intended) one in the past. That said, my eldest kid's One S seems to be a pretty decent device - and so far she's not managed to slow it to a crawl (doing the usual teenie thing of loading any old crap app that takes her fancy), which says something to it's performance. Seriously considered a One X for myself, but the greater flexibility of the S3 swung me to it instead.

    One thing I will criticise HTC for though is that Sense now looks pretty naff compared to TouchWiz and especially stock ICS. From the comments on XDA about "desensitizing" One series phones, I'm not the only one who isn't a fan.

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ChuckyDB View Post
    100% agree with you
    Ever since the Sense 3.0 update on my Desire HD, it's been slower and buggier than ever.
    And with the last minute cancellation of ICS, there is now way I'm forgiving them.
    My desire HD has been fine during its 2 years life. To expect the ICS update was a little ambitious considering ICS is designed for multicore processors. I have no issue with HTC and their software support. Phones has worked well and the intial bugs were ironed out.

    The biggest issue for HTC is they keep making the same mistakes with their high end phones. Rubbish batteries and rubbish speakers.
    Well,they y shoudn't have officially announced ICS for the DHD then.

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    My HTC Desire HD: Had poor battery life from day 1; Great HTC SW interface; no upgrade to ICS but no matter due to HW limit; sellotape holding on volume button because the glue came unstuck due to battery swapping as bought 2nd battery for peace of mind. Next stop either Nokia or Apple due to HW quality & Nokia camera & Apple design & get away from Android. Apps no problem as don't need many. Let's hope battery life gets better.

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    Re: News - HTC’s spark won’t be reignited by Windows Phone 8

    Sounds like sales overreached themselves

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