Posts tagged: HTC
The iPhone’s retail debut was on June 29, 2007 — four years ago today. Its large touch screen isn’t novel anymore, but was revolutionary then.
Ever wondered how “smart phones” looked before the launch of the iPhone? Check out the blog post for a trip down memory lane.
Now, for the second point. Today, I found myself in a situation where I wanted to use my Android (because it admittedly has a better camera than my iPhone 3GS) to take pictures. I opened the Android Market, searched for Flickr and quickly clicked on the app named Flickr that had the Flickr icon. Great. Once the download completed, I tapped on the icon and suddenly a website opened up to a phishing warning. I tried to exit, but it just reopened. Again and again. No matter what combination of buttons I tried, the phone re-entered this unusable state of trying to reload this prohibited website and randomly rebooting.
More open isn’t always a better thing. Unless of course, you’re willing to pay the price by dealing such stuff yourself.
In a statement, a HTC spokesman said, “Quality in industrial design is of key importance to HTC. To ensure the best possible signal strength, antennas are placed in the area least likely to be covered by a person’s face or hands while the phone is in use. However, it is inevitable that a phone’s signal strength will weaken a little when covered in its entirety by a user’s palm or fingers.”
Remember how they accused Apple that smartphone reception problems “aren’t common”?
