I was excited to buy my HD2.
Really! I played with one for about 10 minutes and thought WOW! So I decided to invest the money and buy one.
What I got was a very capable piece of hardware. Almost dreamlike, I thought to myself. Wow this thing is so smooth, and fast. “Wow Look out iPhone.” I thought. “This is it for them.”
Well too bad I didn’t do my research. After using this phone for less than a month I want to perform a lobotomy on it. I know it’s not the phone itself. There is a difference between the capabilities of the cell phone itself and the horrendous globule of mixed up code they call an Operating System (Windows Mobile 6.5) This phone locks up multiple time DAILY for me. Simple normal tasks lock the phone up A LOT. The only redeeming qualities for this phone is the speed and quality of movies booting up and the camera quality.
Taking photos and videos is a real joy. I love taking photos and videos and this phone does 5 times better than any camera phone I’ve ever used in the past.
I wish I could rip the WM6.5 out of here and put something worthwhile on it. I wasted my money investing in a windows phone.
Not sure how popular, liked or disliked the iphone is around these parts but I I have a quick anecdote. I asked a few of my buddies with iPhones if their iPhones ever locked up. They sighed and said “YEAH IT LOCKED UP A COUPLE TIMES.” Here I thought they meant that it locks up as much as my phone. Ya know, on a daily basis. So I asked for clarification. I asked them “You mean a day A WEEK, A MONTH!?” They said it has only locked up 2-3 times for the life of the phone and they’ve had it for a long time.
As a consumer and a businessman always on the move I just want a phone that works and does what I NEED IT TO DO WHEN I ASK IT TO DO IT and doesn’t lock up. The iPhone although disliked by some doesn’t lock up anywhere near as often. It is smooth and responsive. I thought my 6.5 HD2 was the answer to the iPhone. Boy was I wrong.
It’s like there was NO quality control at Microsoft. No user-consumer testing and feedback focus groups.
I can simply say that in comparison, the iPhone seems like it was designed by stoners. Before you gasp allow me explain oh easily offended ones.
Meaning that they thought, “Hey, when I’m fried out of my mind, can I still figure out my phone and not get confused and lost in its’ infinite complicated hallways and end up locking my phone up? Can I hand this phone to a passed out individual on the street and ask them to look up something on the phone and they can still find it? Can I accidentally fall on my phone in a drunken stuper and while the phone is scrunched up against my face, can i still make a phone call with my nose?!?!?!” That is the impression I get from the software designers of the iPhone.
…. and the individuals at Microsoft who designed their software were a bunch of old politicians who drive Mercedes Limousines spreading Grey Poupon on their customer feedback printouts laughing all the way to the bank and a grave in Hell.
Accessing files and changing settings on my Windows Mobile 6.5 HTC HD2 Phone is reminiscent of the experience navigating through the PC version of WINDOWS 3.1!?!?! Anyone old enough to remember that?
And a couple more finger wags at HTC for allowing such a masterful device such as the HD2 to be cursed with a clearly delinquent, frankensteined, jerry rigged operating system. This shall definitely influence businessmen like myself who are more concerned about quality than price in their next buying decision for a phone.
I am truly P.O’ed that I allowed myself to fall into another Windows trap. I may start to go apple and not look back. I want to spit on the shoes of every person in charge of quality control at Microsoft. Realizing what I just said I am thinking that I will be able to save my spit because there aren’t any shoes to spit on in that department. I am sure I will find that when I open the door with the “Quality Control” plaque on the door and Microsoft software headquarters I will step into and fall into a deep never ending pit of a black abyss. While falling I will only hear the sounds of evil men laughing deeply, almost villainous like faded with the sounds a cash register cha-ching noises in the background and even more faintly the screams of every owner of a Windows mobile phone.
iPhone may have some things to have a finger or two wagged at them over but at least their damn phone works.
I would simply sign this with my name at the end…however:
I am ashamed to admit my name is Josh Barry because I am simply another name on the bathroom wall at Microsoft.
I am buying the HTC Sensation
