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HTC HD or wait?

I know we get loads of these types of post every week, so hoping people dont get too fuming at this one.
My contract expires in May 09 but im able to upgrade should i want to in Feb. So do i upgrade in Feb to the HTC HD or wait untill May approaches on the hope that something better has come out by then?
No news on any upcoming HTC devices as far as i know. Heard about a G2 but i dont know how far off that device is.
Cheers guys

you should wait the palm pre and nokia n97 are coming out in about may or june from what i heard

thainess said:
you should wait the palm pre and nokia n97 are coming out in about may or june from what i heard
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If you can deal with Palm OS or Symbian.
If your phone runs well and does everything you need, why get locked in ? Wait 'til it dies or ceases to do what you need.
And spend the money on hookers and liquor , if the money is just burning a hole in your pocket

Wait till the end of February. If nothing new from HTC or MS WM6.5, then get the best device available: the HD! You can always upgrade from it later...

galaxys said:
Wait till the end of February. If nothing new from HTC or MS WM6.5, then get the best device available: the HD! You can always upgrade from it later...
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I second this
Perhaps we can see the HD touch pro!!!

The Nokia 97 looks fantastic, and its likely to come to Orange (with whom im with). Since its due April/May i may wait for it. But its so tempting to get the HD since my Touch is on its last legs now.

I'm still on an Exec (aka Universal)
I'm struglling with the decision to upgrade to a Serra, and try to but a better ROM on it, or to get a plain Touch Pro or HD from expansys on T-mobile.
Even thinking of staying with my exec!!!
There seems to be a lot of issues esp with the touch pro, and even worse with the O2 ROM
Had all this before with the Orbit 2 - the video issues put me off that one too
Any advice ?
Sam

im off to the far east in a couple of months
ill treat myself then....and drop my diamond
diamond has done what i needed.....time to move on

ATT getting Android

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-sales/promotion/ces.jsp?status=success&_requestid=52971
from HTC, Dell, and Motorola!
about time is all i can say.

To say I'm excited is the biggest understatement ever. I've been wanting an Android handset since the G1. I just hope they pick up a high-end HTC set. Either way though, I'm most definitely picking one up soon after release. If it is ~300 or less, it's a forgone conclusion.

well theyre going to have to drive in new subscribers somehow after they lose exclusivity on the dated iPhone. ****ty network not helping, either

figures i'd drop all this money on the eXpo for them to turn around and do this.. BASTARDS! looks like i'll be saving my money and getting another phone sooner than i expected!

Anyone want to speculate as to which HTC handsets they're getting?
Something tells me AT&T is either getting nothing special, or they're getting the Chinned hero with US 3G.
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figures i'd drop all this money on the eXpo for them to turn around and do this.. BASTARDS! looks like i'll be saving my money and getting another phone sooner than i expected!
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Serious question:
What made you get the eXpo? Beside the snapdragon, what's special about it? Because from what I've read, the snapdragon doesn't make a huge difference in performance.

im hoping something slightly larger than the hero like the bravo/passion/nexus one version.

Let's hope they don't wait too long.
Doesn't make sense to release an android phone if the next iphone is around the corner.
i.e. I might jump on this if they announce something soon, but otherwise it (sadly) is an iphone for me.

coolVariable said:
Let's hope they don't wait too long.
Doesn't make sense to release an android phone if the next iphone is around the corner.
i.e. I might jump on this if they announce something soon, but otherwise it (sadly) is an iphone for me.
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IIRC, it will be in Q1, so before the end of march. Wouldn't be the first time a date was pushed back though. :/
And it would make sense for AT&T to drop one (or five) when the new iPhone comes out, since speculation says the exclusivity agreement will be ending this year. Its something to bring others in who are sick of the iPhone. Were it not for the fact that my current price would double by leaving, I'd have made the switch to another carrier (probably T-Mobile) by now. I like WinMo, but I'm ready for something new.

Anyone still dream of 2.2 update in this month?

Back in July, UK Galaxy S announced Froyo update will be delivered in Sept. And it looks like they will have it.
And the US market, well, they don't even have an ETA yet.
Talk about fragmentation.

mwxiao said:
Back in July, UK Galaxy S announced Froyo update will be delivered in Sept. And it looks like they will have it.
And the US market, well, they don't even have an ETA yet.
Talk about fragmentation.
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Every night, I do.

I think there's gonaa be a froyo update for our captivates soon, i've been reading and somewhere I saw it was not going to be through OTA so I don't really know what's gonna be the update method.

Update this month??
Remember at&t has never, EVER, upgraded a smartphone which it sold. Never!! Do not know whether it is incompetence or a desire to get you to buy a new phone with FROYO and a new contract. They have absolutely zero experience in this area, OTA or not.
Consider the poor Backflip, still stuck in Android 1.3X in spite of all the promises.

They updated the Fuze. A couple of times i think. I ran custom ROMS but I know they updated it at least once.
sent from my Captivate

AT&T updated the oringial Blackjack from Winmo 6.0 to 6.1

Yep, but we have to give HTC and Samsung credit for those upgrades, and the one to the Tilt I, but AT&T, I don't think so. If Samsung can work around all the crippling of the Captivate, maybe they will offer us something, but the stock Galaxy S is not quite the same beast as the Captivate. OTA and from AT&T, it'll be a first. We shall see!

Take it back. AT&Ts HTC Aria just got a minor update, interesting thing: it was OTA

hmose said:
Update this month??
Remember at&t has never, EVER, upgraded a smartphone which it sold. Never!! Do not know whether it is incompetence or a desire to get you to buy a new phone with FROYO and a new contract. They have absolutely zero experience in this area, OTA or not.
Consider the poor Backflip, still stuck in Android 1.3X in spite of all the promises.
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That's not true. I had a Tilt 2 before making the switch to Android, and they just released an updated ROM for it with Sense instead of TouchFlo 3d. I thought THAT would never happen.
It's coming, but it will be long after the other carriers.

September 23rd
A number of sources are saying the Captivate 2.2 will come on the 23rd (or are they saying Galaxy S 2.2). Either way, it may be a bit before an official US version is available, but once the kernel is out, I would think that we'll see roms become available.
Just hang on a bit longer!

considering it took AT&T almost a year to upgrade the bold 9000 from 4.6 to the 5.0 OS that was available for months from other carriers, i wont be expecting froyo on this phone anytime soon.

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AT&T updated the oringial Blackjack from Winmo 6.0 to 6.1
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It wasn't AT&T, that upgraded the phone to WinMo, it was Samsung, as a matter of fact, I don't think AT&T supported the phone if you upgraded it to 6.1 [I miss my BlackJack, lol]. And you had to download it from their site, and all that other bull.
Either way, I just want Froyo, it's driving me crazy, all this talk about it coming, and what not. Leave it to AT&T, and all US carriers to load the phones with such nonsense, that the phones software has to be beta tested 30x's over before it can even hit the consumer. By the time 2.2 is out for the US Galaxy S devices, every other carrier/droid phone is going to be talking about 3.0.
It's the one thing that I will give to Apple, they close sourced their equipment and their OS, not that I agree with it, but they locked AT&T out of alot of aspects of the OS, and how they bundle software with it [no AT&T bloatware upon purchase], so they beta test for a month or so, depending on how major the release, and then push it out, and patch along the way.
I understand how difficult it is for android, with different HW spread across all the MFGs, but if the MFGs stop with the bloat we'd all be happy with Froyo right now

I hope it comes out this month. I think it's mandatory for Samsung to release an update across all carriers because of the faulty GPS. I'm hoping we'll know something by the 23rd.

I'm sure we'll get the update sooner or later - heck, September is only halfway through. While it does seem unlikely that we'll get this is month, deadlines frequently slip in software development, so it's not entirely surprising.
Chances are, those of os who want to will be running the i9000 Froyo ROM with a fixed kernel before we see the update roll out from AT&T, but I look forward to being delightfully surprised. We've already fixed the rotation issues, so it just remains to be seen if the headphone logic issue that popped up in the i9000 2.2 ROMs persists in the final build.

One word, no.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

hmose said:
Update this month??
Remember at&t has never, EVER, upgraded a smartphone which it sold. Never!! Do not know whether it is incompetence or a desire to get you to buy a new phone with FROYO and a new contract. They have absolutely zero experience in this area, OTA or not.
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Dead wrong. I personally get AT&T updates on following Smartphones:
1. HTC 2125 WM5.0->WM5.1
2. Samsung BlackJack WM5.0->WM6.0
3. Samsung BlackJack 2 WM6.0->WM6.1
4. Samsung Jack WM6.1->WM6.5

GPS update this month? Maybe.
Froyo? Not bloody likely. We'll be extremely lucky to see Froyo in 2010.

I challenge you Samsung

Well, I can't get my phone until friday due to some problem with att. For those of you who know fridays October first and unless samsung either comes out with a 2.2 update or an official release date by then as they previously stated they would im going to be joining the iphone crew. Cant stand this lack of support. At least with apple you know they support your device for 2-3 years. Or maybe ill just wait it out either to see what samsung does or for the white iphone.

ahh screw it

Wow... Lol.... Stfu!

I wouldn't hold your breath.
Anyway, I'd want them to figure out what the hell went wrong with the "minor" OTA that was bricking stock phones before pushing out a major update like Froyo.

S300M said:
Well, I can't get my phone until friday due to some problem with att. For those of you who know fridays October first and unless samsung either comes out with a 2.2 update or an official release date by then as they previously stated they would im going to be joining the iphone crew. Cant stand this lack of support. At least with apple you know they support your device for 2-3 years. Or maybe ill just wait it out either to see what samsung does or for the white iphone.
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You better buy that iPhone then.
Sasmsung announced 2.2 in September for the international Galaxy S NOT the captivate or any other US variant. They have clarified this a few times. Last week, they have announced that the 2.2 update for International Galaxy S is delayed until October.
I don't think they care about your ultimatum, but you should have the facts straight before making the threat.

Another useless thread.

[Q] Play the waiting game?

Hey All,
I am finnaly upgrade ready and have already sold my previous andriod device in the hopes that being stuck using a moto razr would modivate me to do some research on my next purchase. Boy has it, I never knew how dependant I have become of a smart phone. But, anyways my question is this. With the news of dual core offerings on the horizon should I tough it out with the Razr and get the deep discount for a 2xcore or pick up a Captivate for around 60 USD shipped. Honestly I know if I wait for the newest and best I will always be waiting because there is always something better being built when the old project goes retail. But, if its a month or two away............. see my dilema? I have found no hard release dates and I'm sure I wont till after the US holiday season is over. Any thoughts on this?
And yes in the poll dual is spelled incorrectly... but I cannot edit.

The Captivate is a nice phone; I have one... but it has a few issues with say the GPS, or mysterious shut downs that some people get, and some people don't. I still like mine, and am just waiting hopefully for an update or rom that'll fix everything.
Not sure about the other phones you're referring to though.

If you want dual core, you should wait for the LG Optimus 2X.
Swyped from my HTC Desire running Oxygen 1.0.4 with Tapatalk.

I completely agree with you. I've been through 3 phones since last July (2009) and have no idea what to do next. I went from a Blackberry I purchased in July of 09, then by december I made the switch to the G1. That sold me on Android. I fell in love. Months later of having the phone, the MyTouch Slide was introduced and I figured the G1 was getting severely outdated and since I didn't pay too much I'd go try that. I also wanted another touch screen phone with a full keyboard. Well, release day June 2010, I picked up the MyTouch Slide. Little did I know it would be abandoned at the start.
People will try to convince you stating tha the phone isn't abandoned, but for me I think it is. The phone was released in June with 2.1 and getting 2.2 seems more like a dream day by day. Yes, I'm rooted, but the phone has quirks and Tmobile was quick to release better phones soon after (G2 etc.) Now we have 2.3 released and 3.0 is already in development. So, if you ask me the MyTouch Slide is out of the picture (plus the HD came out almost immediately after.)
So now the question for me is do I wait a bit until I have the money for a Nexus S or do I wait it out for the Dual Core phones? Nexus S is supposed to be quite powerful and I'm all for a stock OS without the BS Tmo loads on their phones. So, I feel you on it. I haven't the slightest idea what to do next. Will a dual core phone be released mid-year? Q3ish or early 2012?