HTC Forecast is Gloomy

[kodiak799]

Apple is the only one with the heft to dictate to the carriers. Otherwise, at least in the US, they all want exclusive models. I think this is partly motivated by carriers wanting to lock people into contracts (i.e., if the same phone is on multiple carriers, easier to jump ship).

Anyway, as for HTC the Rezound was an excellent phone. They failed miserably in the marketing.

[2001400ex]

Thanks to my purchase of the Thunderbolt, I will not get another HTC phone again. Granted the 4G was nice and fast, but I'm not sure that makes up for the shortcomings of the TB. There are still things that haven't been fixed.
I'm still waiting on the fix for the Bluetooth issue I've brought up many times. Now I find the birthdays show a day later when you go to your contacts.

I have to wait until Dec. of this year before I can exchange my phone under contract. And it will not be a HTC.

Yeah, all the manufacturers go through good and bad. Moto was drying up, released a poor Bionic, then struck gold with the Razr. Samsung missed with their first 4g phone, can't think of the name now. But then struck gold with the Nexus and the contract with Google. Unfortunately, its about marketing. You look at the Nexus, the Rezound, and the Razr, they all have their good and bad points. In fact, the items that mean the most to me, the Rezound is probably the best one. (until the Razr Maxx that is)

I bought my Tbolt on launch and had my ups and downs with it. I can't upgrade until November this year, and I will choose from the Rezound 2, Maxx 2 or Nexus 2, depending on which one makes the most strides to making the phone what it should be. No reason to single HTC out now. Who knows, LG might continue their leap forward and do something revolutionary by then. Hopefully they introduce VOIP with that generation.

[nikecar]

I like my incredible 2.

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[wolstonc]

The Inc 2 was the only all around decent phone they released, and it wasn't 4g. People expected a lot after the Inc 1 and how it always got the best updates, and how the evo became sprints flagship phone with great sales. But they burnt vzw customers with the tbolt, and followed up the evo, which many considered the next iPhone, with a gimmicky 3d phone. They dropped the ball in a major way on both networks.

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[WildcatRudy]

I rooted and put a Liquid Smooth Gingerbread ROM on the TBolt (Android 2.3.7) and it hasn't given me many problems. The only thing I have issue with is the 4G; we have it in our area, but can't get it for about a mile radius of the house (despite a strong cell signal). Strangely if I head southeast by a mile and a half, out by the lake, I get 4G just fine. But in Indianapolis, I was getting 15Mbps/6Mbps speeds inside the hotel I stayed at. So I can't really blame the TBolt because Verizon's 4G service is spotty.

I got a slightly larger battery (fits in the standard battery door), and I rarely run 4G as I'm on WiFi most places I go, so battery life is usually quite good. Once you remove the HTC bloatware, surprisingly (or not ), the whole phone runs so much better and gets longer battery life. Thing is, most users will never touch the ROM or root the phone, so they get the bum deal and don't like the TBolt.

Short version--it's a solid phone, but it takes a bit of work to get it to that point; HTC needs to create an ideal "out of the box" experience for Joe Consumer, and I don't think they're at that point yet.

I think I'd rather own a crappy, loaded up TBolt over an apple i(diot)phone any day of the week...

[King_Bean]

Yep, the Thunderbolt messed things up for HTC because the Incredible 2, Rhyme and Rezound are all great phones.