Shout About Mobiles

Just a quick one. When developing a new platform to take on the iPhone, make a phone that actually looks half decent and has at least the same features as the competitor. Say for example, Bluetooth and video recording. Yes believe it or not, these basic features don’t even make it to the final specification. Seriously, how thick do you have be to make a decision like that on a brand new phone?

Surely some heads will roll somewhere if this phone doesn’t make some impact.
So anyway software wise, the phone will make use of all the Google services like Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Maps etc. Third party apps will be supplied over the air. Sadly MS Exchange support is nonexistent and there is no desktop sync. This is only available through Google’s online services, which is crap. This is again, another limiting feature of the phone.

The Android OS really did sound like one powerful bit of software, but this first device fails to make the cut in our eyes. We are, like most people, saddened that after a year waiting we are left with an extremely poor iPhone replica that doesn’t even look anywhere near as good. It isn’t Google’s fault, it seems that HTC just didn’t put any meaningful effort into the design. So we will reserve full judgment on the phone until further devices are produced.