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msmobiles.com_robot · Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 16777215

HTC Diamond2 is an excellet phone except for one thing: it has proprietary ExtUSB connector for headset. HTC Firestone looks much like HTC Diamond2 but it has proper 3.5 mm industry standard plug...

Some high...

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thelondonthing · Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 236

I can't help but wonder where exactly this phone is supposed to slot in in HTC's line-up. Is it a replacement for the Touch HD? What does it do differently to existing HTC WinMo handsets? What does it do better? Why should I want this phone?

These are all questions I would have hoped that you might be interested in answering - but no, instead, you're dicking around with your boring crusade against mini-USB headsets, even though pretty much none of your readers gives a flying fůck about that, and even though we've really made that pretty clear ever since you've been on this jihad against proprietary headphone connections.

Why aren't you more interested in answering the questions that matter to people? Surely, if you can't be bothered to provide the info that people want, you might as well just pack this website in and save your time, rather than boring us all with the same crap repeated over and over again.

I don't expect you to have all the answers right now, but you seem to show no interest whatsoever in getting people interested in Windows Mobile and the new devices available on the platform; indeed, this whole "msmobiles" site - once dedicated to providing Windows Mobile related news, and claiming to offer the 'whole truth' - is now little more than the blog of a tiresome, gibbering fool who cares nothing for the phones and the platform that he claims to report on, but who is instead content to ramble incoherently about the absence of 'killer features' that in reality the rest of us don't really care about very much.

I certainly don't care that this phone has a 3.5mm headphone socket. I really don't give a rat's ass about that at all. My Touch HD has a 3.5mm socket, and it's not changed my life in the slightest. In fact, shortly after getting my Touch HD, I decided to get some A2DP Bluetooth headphones, and frankly I'd imagine non-WM users would be far more impressed about being able to connected good quality wireless headphones than being able to show off that your phone can handle a 3.5mm output.

The inclusion of a 3.5mm socket is not something that would affect my decision to purchase a handset, and it's certainly not a killer feature that would compel me to want to go out and buy a new phone today. I suspect that the majority of other readers will find themselves in the same position.

Does this handset have TV out? Does it have 720p video recording and playback? Does it have an 8MP camera with xenon flash? Does it have the most impressive and responsive display ever to grace a WinMo device? Does it have a new way of processing TouchFLO which makes it super-fast?

This is the stuff that I give a sh!t about. I want to be interested and excited about new Windows Mobile phones coming out - and that really shouldn't be difficult, because any number of other websites (from Engadget to Boy Genius Report to Mobile Burn to MoDaCo) make the process of engaging and enthralling people with news of new mobiles look really easy.

Yet somehow you manage to suck all the joy out of news regarding Windows Mobile with your petty, ignorant and unhealthy obsession with features that - for the majority of us - are of little to no interest, and which will be of little to no influence upon any decision to buy a new handset.

Please Edward, just put a god-damn sock in it, because your weird obsessive-compulsive streak towards 3.5mm headphone sockets and multi-touch displays became boring a really long time ago, and now it's really just sad - sad in that way where you look at someone tragic with nothing but pity in your eyes because you know that they're beyond help, and then you walk off, forget all about them, and get on with stuff that matters.

I can't speak for everyone else on here, but I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable with your weird fixations, mostly because it's starting to seem like you've actually got a genuine obsessive-compulsive fixation, and that perhaps it would be more productive for you to seek some kind of professional attention, rather than exposing yourself to the sort of ridicule that your tedious and entirely predictable postings so readily invite.

Please, if you've got some more insightful information, photos, differentiators, highlights, previews or reviews on Firestone, I'm sure that all of your readers will be truly delighted to see them - but please Edward, if all you're going to do is continue to whine about the lack or inclusion of 3.5mm headphone sockets and/or multi-touch, I think I speak for the majority of people here when I say: "shut the fůck up".

ugumba · Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 15

Hear hear... I couldn't have put this better (or in more words Very Happy

) myself.
My visits to msmobiles.com have steadily become less frequent over the past 2 years, for these very reasons: The weird fixations on meaningless features, and the self righteous (and often self pitying) tone in which they are expressed.

3-4 years ago (when I got my Typhoon/Qtek 8010), msmobiles.com was one of the first 3 sites I visited every day, if not many times a day. Now, I pop in maybe once a week to pick up the occasional interesting link and leave. I think the platform (WM) has basically outgrown this site and its keeper(s).

Right, then... back to XDA to pimp my HD some more... Very Happy

EJR · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 2629

bubuschoeny · Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 10

No if only it had a capacitive screen, multi touch and an apple logo on the back of it Wink

. j/k. It's nice to see HTC starting to realize the customers' needs. If only the would support graphics acceleration as well then we'd be in business.

virain · Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 124

EJR · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 2629

grahamkdt · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 4

Is this argument about a 3.5mm headset jack still going on? Does anyone really care? Would the inclusion of such swing anyone's decision to buy or not to buy? Come on, at least lets have a discusion about something that really matters... capacitive screen - yes... multi-touch - yes... Qualcomm processor - NO... 3.5mm headphone socket - WHO CARES?????

clone · Joined: 17 Aug 2008 Posts: 25

amb9800 · Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 92

amb9800 · Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 92

On the HTC Firestone device itself, the photo posted looks like a photoshop (Touch Pro + HD with buttons moved around, early WM 6.5 screenshot pasted (with hexagons in place)).

But if the specs are real, it could be a follow-up to the Touch HD, with the main upgrade being the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. At 600 MHz, it'll probably match the iPhone 3GS' new 600 MHz Cortex A8 chip and will be much, much faster than the MSM72xx chips (>2x) in almost all current HTC devices. It should be able to play back at least 720p HD video content, so the HD moniker might actually make some sense this time.

There's also a rumor that HTC might introduce a WinMo 6.5 device in the fall with a capacitive screen (which WM is technically capable of supporting, as seen in the TI OMAP3 demonstrator platforms), so although it's still unlikely, maybe this could be it?

bubuschoeny · Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 10

Come'on guys cut EJR some slack. No Windows Mobile fan boy site has done as much as EJR has help Apple sell more product. I wonder if applemobiles.com is redirected here? hmm..

amb9800 · Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 92

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