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[...] Are HTC phones any good without Android? In my years of reviewing phones, I’ve only tried two… [...]

By: Alica

Alica — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:53:32 +0000

I want the heroo, But with a slide out keyborad ! : |

By: livvy

livvy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:29:11 +0000

i was browsing on ebay.ph and chanced upon an HTC touch HD priced at 26k. no warranty though. is this a good deal or not? help me out guys.. thanks!

By: irispen

irispen — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:00:28 +0000

HTC HERO pls.. kailan kaya ilalabas ng HTC Philippines yun dito? atat na ako!

By: jumper

jumper — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:12:33 +0000

ahh, i cannot confirm nor deny.

pero really, i can’t say talaga for certain kasi i don’t have first hand info. narinig-rinig ko lang rin from ppl sa IT industry. pero if you connect the dots, i guess you’ll arrive at that conclusion rin. hehe.

By: yuga

yuga — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:35:46 +0000

@jumper – I heard the huge discounts on HTC phones early this year was the result of the divorce. True?

@ed – wow, you’d be the very first one I know who owns the HTC Touch HD. That’s 50k a pop.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:35:32 +0000

i own an htc touch hd. its one of the best winmo devices in the market today.

By: jumper

jumper — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:13:32 +0000

but if you’re talking about HTC branded phones and not OEM’s, yeah…there isn’t a lot of buzz yet in the philippines, cuz they just started coming out with their own brands like probably 2 years ago.

but they’re trying to make some noise na. they appointed a local distributor to market their products (but hiwalay na sila, so HTC is probably shopping around for a new one).

By: jumper

jumper — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:08:02 +0000

hey, i thought the O2 xda’s were popular in the philippines!

but yeah, they’re not “consumer” phones. they’re really pricey!

By: lance

lance — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:23:49 +0000

Globe should grab the HTC Hero :p

By: yuga

yuga — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:22:54 +0000

@knight and jumper – I guess they have good track-record outside but in the Philippines, they don’t make much buzz nor gain consumer-following.

By: Knight

Knight — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:08:15 +0000

I agree with jumper. HTC has long been known a maker of quality phones.

HTC products are sold under several brand names — HTC, Dopod (HTC’s subsidiary company) and Qtek — and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers such as Orange, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, O2, Vodafone, AT&T, Alltel, Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility.

HTC is the Original design manufacturer for the following companies that retail Windows Mobile-based PDAs: Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP/Compaq, i-mate, Krome, Palm, Sharp Corporation, and UTStarcom. It also manufactures ultra-mobile PCs.

I’m not sure if you remember Smart Amazing Phone. It was actually an HTC product rebranded for Smart telco.

By: jumper

jumper — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:01:44 +0000

oh and here’s a list of HTC models and the brands they were sold under.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_pocketpc_smartphone.php3

By: jumper

jumper — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:56:58 +0000

you probably haven’t been covering HTC much, hence your question. HTC phones are geared more towards business users, but they have fantastic designs and they’re usually powerful, packed w/ functions and features w/o sacrificing its appearance.

a list of “firsts” from htcwiki.com:

* First color palm-size PC (1999)
* First Microsoft Pocket PC (2000)
* First Microsoft wireless Pocket PC (2002)
* First Microsoft powered Smartphone (2002)
* First Microsoft Smart Music Phone (2004)
* Large 2.8″ TFT touch-screen LCD display
* First Microsoft 3G Phone (2005)
* First Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Platform Phone (2005)
* First tri-band UMTS 3G device on the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform (2006)
* First Microsoft Windows 5.0 Smartphone (2006)
* First Tri-band UMTS PDA
* First intuitive touch screen to allow finger tip navigation (June 2007)

popular HTC phones unclude the Wizard, TyTN series, and the Touch series (Pro, Diamond, HD).

it is also the OEM manufacturer of great smartphones like the O2 XDA’s (I, II, and the Mini) and the SE Xperia.

By: Young

Young — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:00:31 +0000

Yuga you should aslo look at the upcoming HTC-WinMo phones, like the HTC Touch Pro2 and Diamond 2. I don’t think HTC would go all Android any time soon.

By: Nil A.

Nil A. — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:20:31 +0000

‘Got tired of waiting for the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD; so, i recently got myself a HTC Touch Pro2 instead. It’s been great ever since i got it.

By: Doc Harry

Doc Harry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:12:00 +0000

My friend bought the Touch HD. Last time we talked about his phone, he was still raving about it.

I test drove a per-owned HTC Dream. Android seemed great but it was really slow on start-up and in-between menu changes. Maybe if it some of the apps were unloaded it would run faster.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:51:54 +0000

actually i am a fan of htc since my cousin and my friend from the states introduced it to me… their phones are durable and at the same time cool!

By: Raven

Raven — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:06:04 +0000

I heard a l0t of c0mments that aside fr0m what htc used as 0s bef0re (the winm0) which really disapp0ints m0st users is the quality itself. I d0nt kn0w but when c0mpared t0 other manufacturers, theirs are well maybe cann0t be with y0u f0r a l0ng time.