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Will you ever buy another HTC product?

Everyone is saying that the sprint Hero is too outdated to run froyo, but the T-mobile G2 is getting froyo and they are the same phone. It has nothing to do with the hardware not being able to run froyo its that sprint/htc are trying to force people to buy the Evo. Sprint is potentially going out of business in coming years and by forcing people to pay an extra $120 dollars a year and get absolutely nothing in return (most Evo users do not live in a 4g area), sprint can make a lot of money. If you get millions of people to pay you for a service that they cant actually use, you only make money.
 
PKP said:
Everyone is saying that the sprint Hero is too outdated to run froyo, but the T-mobile G2 is getting froyo and they are the same phone. It has nothing to do with the hardware not being able to run froyo its that sprint/htc are trying to force people to buy the Evo. Sprint is potentially going out of business in coming years and buy forcing people to pay an extra $120 dollars a year and get absolutely nothing in return (most Evo users do not live in a 4g area), sprint can make a lot of money. If you get millions of people to pay you for a service that they cant actually use, you only make money.
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And you got that story from?
 
Sprint has to get more money out of us bandwith hogs, especially with new evo owners sucking it all up. I personally think the extra 10 bucks would be well worth it if you were in an area with the 4g coverage. That said, sprint is probably the highest value out of the major carriers and has awesome incentives (1 year upgrades).

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Also, it takes hardly any more time to root/rom your phone (even once froyo is ported to us) than it does to run an official Ruu upgrade from sprint/htc. Therefore, nobody should really be bitching about us not getting an official 2.2 release as the people who really want it will get it anyways.

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No. At least, not as they stand at the moment.

I think they're still in the box-shifting mentality, turning new phones out every other week, but not being able to provide satisfactory support and service for existing models. I don't think they've quite made the leap to the same standards set by others who've had their brands on the market for much longer.

I previously owned an N95 8Gb and more or less swore off buying another Nokia, until I spent the past few months trying to live with my Hero.

HTC's product support and build quality is woeful. Nokia, in my experience, have at least been satisfactory in providing decent after sale support, even if the phone itself was prone to failure at times.

A few months ago, there was just no way I'd have considered another Android-based phone, because of the lack of standard feature support. Having seen some of these concerns addressed with 2.2, I'm willing to give another Android handset a shot - but mostly because I don't want a Symbian OS phone, a Blackberry, an iPhone or a Windows Mobile phone. Having had my fingers burned already with the Hero, though, I'm wary as to what would be suitable to replace it. I've always trusted Sony Ericsson, but the reviews of the X10 series has left me cold.
 
PKP said:
Everyone is saying that the sprint Hero is too outdated to run froyo, but the T-mobile G2 is getting froyo and they are the same phone. It has nothing to do with the hardware not being able to run froyo its that sprint/htc are trying to force people to buy the Evo. Sprint is potentially going out of business in coming years and buy forcing people to pay an extra $120 dollars a year and get absolutely nothing in return (most Evo users do not live in a 4g area), sprint can make a lot of money. If you get millions of people to pay you for a service that they cant actually use, you only make money.
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First off, Sprint has been around for 10+ years. I don't think they're going anywhere. For the people who buy the Evo without 4g coverage, that on them. They should of waited for 4g to be available in their area.
As far as getting another HTC product, yes I will stay with HTC.
If you guys are having so much problems with your phone, then get a different phone, or root it. I have been rooted for a few months now and I don't have any problems with my Hero. It's snappy, no lag, and very customizable. I love my hero, but I will be switching to the Evo or something newer and better when it comes out.

P.S. 4g has been live for month in StL.
 
pinoy724 said:
First off, Sprint has been around for 10+ years. I don't think they're going anywhere. For the people who buy the Evo without 4g coverage, that on them. They should of waited for 4g to be available in their area.
As far as getting another HTC product, yes I will stay with HTC.
If you guys are having so much problems with your phone, then get a different phone, or root it. I have been rooted for a few months now and I don't have any problems with my Hero. It's snappy, no lag, and very customizable. I love my hero, but I will be switching to the Evo or something newer and better when it comes out.

P.S. 4g has been live for month in StL.
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Google sprint going out of business. They're probably going to file bankruptcy in a few years. I thought it was pretty well known. And regarding the 10+ years thing ... remember MCI?
 
Kelmar said:
The only complaint I have about the Hero is that it's outdated, but that's not the fault of HTC or anyone else.

Will I buy another HTC, sure!
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Right on! It's like buying a car and next years model has bluetooth. Will you never buy another XXX because they are advancing their technology...Hopefully ppl realize there is always something better/more advanced on the horizon. That is how we got to this point in technology.

wodin6 said:
People wouldn't be crying about not getting Froyo if Google never created it...

Is it HTC's fault that Android moves ahead this quickly? What if, like Apple, google came out with 1 update a year? It hasn't been a year and therefore you would have had no fixes for your phone by now. Be happy you got any.
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Just like I am sure there will be Froyo upgrade complaints like there was 2.1 and so on...You either have to know how to work with what you got or pay the cost to be the boss.

Too many ppl jump the gun and don't fully research before they do things. And then proceed to point fingers and forget about thumbs!
 
I'm not ready to add HTC to my "dead to me" list, but they're close. I'm not really sure how a smartphone company can afford to make me wish for my dumb phone back, but there's days that my Hero does just that. They've also soured me on Android for a while.

I don't even really care about 2.2; I get that you have to EOL products for business reasons. I just want the damn thing to work right with the current firmware.
 
Definately! We've had two Hero's in our house for six months with no problems. My wife had the Touch Diamond for a year before the Hero, no problems except no SD card. Sometimes I wonder what people's expectations are but I would definately purchase htc again. TC
 
Neo31697 said:
I am another one for sure that will never buy another HTC. The phone from day one has had nothing but problems. From chipping paint on the end key, dust under the screen, to keyboard lag and phone lag... the list goes on. Now we get 2.1 the fix all cure all and it makes the phone even worse. Now they tell us less then a year later no 2.2. Fine I understand the hardware limitations trust me i do but fix the phone. On top of 2.1 HTC has to put there sence on top with not giving the basic fetures of 2.1. Voice to text, New lock screen, etc without us using apps to get them.
Do you hear how stupid that sounds we have to use apps to get the basic 2.1.
So for that and so many other reasons HTC will never see another hard earned American dollar of mine. I just wonder what would happen if other bussiness where run like this.
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I agree with you. The phone has been a problem especially since the 2.1 update. I have to say that I will buy any top phone that Sprint has. So yes HTC makes me sick, but Sprint has the cheaper plans and the Evo is the top phone. So there you go.
 
I had an iPhone 3G for 2 years and wanted out because I didn't want Apple telling me what I could or couldn't do with my phone. I switched to the Evo 8 months ag0 (on Sprint) and I am very unhappy. Almost all the apps are twitchy and undependable, app quality is low, most of the phones functions stop working properly at one time or another, battery life is abysmal, yada, yada, yada. I am seriously considering eating the cancellation charge and going back to the iPhone. I still use my old 3G for many things (except phone calls) and it is fast and dependable. OK I can't add external memory, I can't switch batteries, there is no Flash capability, but the damn thing works and works well, almost without fail. Hardware wise the iPhone has the edge and there is no comparison between app quality in the iPhone market and the Android market; Apple wins hand down, and I hate to say that because I have many gripes with Apple, but when I spend my money I want a decent return for my dollar and right now Apple beats Android convincingly.
 
I have had a Sprint HTC Hero for nearly eighteen months now and I have been delighted with it. It has never failed me, the battery life, even before I rooted it, was very good with stock Android 2.1 and even good with the now ancient Android 1.5. The quality of the hardware has always struck me as top notch and it has survived a lot of heavy usage with no ill effects that I can see. The above poster seems to be complaining more about the quality of the apps in the Android Market than an HTC product itself. That being said, if he is more happy with Apple products, then more power to him. I will stick with Android and its infinite abilities to tweak and solve any issues that might have been mentioned in the above post. ;)

After I rooted my Sprint HTC Hero, I subsequently flashed Android 2.2 and then Android 2.3 ROMs onto it and have marveled at how they breathed new life into aging hardware. Even today, my handset is snappy, battery efficient, and runs all of the apps that I use on a daily basis with ease. I am voting with my wallet on HTC by purchasing a Sprint HTC EVO 3D for myself and my wife will get a Sprint HTC EVO 4G as an upgrade from her Sprint Palm Pre. My venerable Sprint HTC Hero will live on as a personal media player and will still be tweaked with whatever new ROM comes out next. I think HTC has taken great strides with relaxing their bootloader policy and their per app basis OTA updates have sped the rate of glitch repair on new handsets to a new level. So, the answer is a resounding yes to the original poster's question. :D
 
^^^Ditto and Apple can stick it where the sun don't shine, Nomadster says he regrets saying that about Apple, and does not like apple, and strings off a bunch of things that he hates about apple, then does the same for the EVO, so looks like you have to pick your poison. Well said LBP I agree.


LBPHeretic said:
I have had a Sprint HTC Hero for nearly eighteen months now and I have been delighted with it. It has never failed me, the battery life, even before I rooted it, was very good with stock Android 2.1 and even good with the now ancient Android 1.5. The quality of the hardware has always struck me as top notch and it has survived a lot of heavy usage with no ill effects that I can see. The above poster seems to be complaining more about the quality of the apps in the Android Market than an HTC product itself. That being said, if he is more happy with Apple products, then more power to him. I will stick with Android and its infinite abilities to tweak and solve any issues that might have been mentioned in the above post. ;)

After I rooted my Sprint HTC Hero, I subsequently flashed Android 2.2 and then Android 2.3 ROMs onto it and have marveled at how they breathed new life into aging hardware. Even today, my handset is snappy, battery efficient, and runs all of the apps that I use on a daily basis with ease. I am voting with my wallet on HTC by purchasing a Sprint HTC EVO 3D for myself and my wife will get a Sprint HTC EVO 4G as an upgrade from her Sprint Palm Pre. My venerable Sprint HTC Hero will live on as a personal media player and will still be tweaked with whatever new ROM comes out next. I think HTC has taken great strides with relaxing their bootloader policy and their per app basis OTA updates have sped the rate of glitch repair on new handsets to a new level. So, the answer is a resounding yes to the original poster's question. :D
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I must weigh in here on this interesting topic. Well about six months into owning my Hero I was very disappointed with it. I hated the fact that the only fix HTC would offer was a hard reset. But the reality was it was the rooted version of the software I was using. The quality of the hardware has been pretty good. I read once before about someone complaining about the telephone half of the phone and I must say that my telephone is unreliable. But the computer side and all that goes with it is very stable and works as advertised. So I would buy another HTC product, root it right away and off I go. I think some of the bad rap I may have given the phone was do to my lack of knowledge of Android. But I can move around it pretty well now and the device is very solid. When I updated to the 2.1 rooted my battery life doubled and the device works well. Have an occasional problem with the camera after a picture is taken it will go back to the home screen but like the phone I have learned to live with these short comings. But for a piece of hardware I have to say solid. My next phone will probably be an HTC something. The Evo is is nice but too big. The Hero is good but I would like it to be a little bigger and have more processing power. That to me would be the perfect device...............

That's my two cents worth............. :rolleyes:

Lisa
 
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