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drfish wrote:Genuinely curious, what do you see as the "risk" - what is the worst case scenario?
I haven't seen the 8X yet but it looks super awesome. I'm thrilled with the fleet of 920s I bought for the office but the 8X was tempting...
steelcity_ballin wrote:but I'm not sure the world is ready for a 3rd giant in the mobile market.
RickyTick wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:but I'm not sure the world is ready for a 3rd giant in the mobile market.
I think we're VERY ready.
steelcity_ballin wrote:RickyTick wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:but I'm not sure the world is ready for a 3rd giant in the mobile market.
I think we're VERY ready.
And why would that be?
sweatshopking wrote:really, for in real world usage, for almost ALL the market, i can't think of a single thing it's behind the other OS's in EXCEPT number of apps. with almost all of the top apps, it's pretty darn close for realistic users. wired recently did a review of their claims and found them fair: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/ ... -top-apps/
sweatshopking wrote:i haven't seen the 920 in real life, but spec wise the camera, screen, and storage are all higher. it's a nicer phone, but it's heavier and thicker. the 8x is pretty darn thin, and pretty darn light. i would have gone with the 920 easily but it's rogers only in canada. I managed to get unlimited everything for 65$ with bell, so i picked up the 8x for 0$. first contract i've ever had.
it's pretty darn solid. it's easily the nicest htc device i've ever seen. build quality is great.
steelcity_ballin wrote:RickyTick wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:but I'm not sure the world is ready for a 3rd giant in the mobile market.
I think we're VERY ready.
And why would that be? New doesn't mean good anymore. With the complexities of a modern OS there's going to be a lot that MS's offerings just can't match from the other two, and I expect that it will stay that way for some time as adoption (hopefully) picks up. I have to say, their marketing for it is near vaporware. I've seen almost no online ads, and certainly not a single commercial on the tv or web to demonstrate it. It's going to lag behind for some time before it becomes trendy enough that the everyday Joe will want one. I see them as a niche alternative at the moment and nothing more. It's nice to have the integration into windows that I suspect it will have, especially in a corporate environment. We'll see how it fairs.
steelcity_ballin wrote:I don't find their current track record in the phone arena very appealing. I'd be worried that it'd go the same route as the zune or win7. Maybe an unfair comparison and things have certainly changed but I'm not sure the world is ready for a 3rd giant in the mobile market. That said, if anyone can pull it off, it's microsoft.
Ryhadar wrote:It's funny, the first real review of the 920 I read was the Engadget one; it linked to their 8X review, which I hadn't previously known anything about. After reading both, I decided the 8X sounded like the phone (of those two) that I'd rather have. And I had always had a bit of bias against HTC, mostly irrational, based on that awful clock display they used on their Android phones (eventually somebody who owned one pointed out that you could remove that, which changed my opinion though a lingering distaste remained).I gotta hand it to HTC with the 8X. I was very skeptical at first given HTC's first attempts at WP7 but the 8X is a very, very well built phone. I'd probably chose it over the 920.
sweatshopking wrote:i'm currently paying 65$ cad for unlimited canada calling, unlimited messaging and 1gb of data. extra gb's are 10$.
dashbarron wrote:Carrier exclusivity can trump all sorts of things.Whoa whoa. I just saw this SSK. You talked up Lumia's for the last 6 months and you buy an HTC?? Son I disappoint.
dashbarron wrote:Whoa whoa. I just saw this SSK. You talked up Lumia's for the last 6 months and you buy an HTC?? Son I disappoint.