The Beanster Blog

I held-off purchasing an Android device and instead, I hard reset my ancient palm Treo Pro (circa 2009) and am using the VRDC hotline SIM with it. The back portion of the case is battered (hence the rubber band), the internal clock battery is shot, and the services for Windows Mobile have long since been closed by MSFT. As you can imagine compared to a 2013 iPhone 5S, this device seems archaic and terrible. During it's hay day though I really loved this smartphone (that's why I never sold it). Pity what hp has done to the brand. Oh well. I guess I better get an Android phone soon so I can keep the Treo Pro in my drawer where it won't get damaged further. via GMail

I love htc, I loved them way back when they were just an OEM and did not sell their own devices. I owned several htc made devices under the XDA, imate, dopod, Palm, htc brands. So it pains me to see this company struggling in today's mobile wars. My question is: why has htc stopped innovating? I think they became a "me too" player and that is why they are in trouble. htc used to have tons of form-factors. Remember these: They had portrait slider (htc blue angel aka o2 xda) They had landscape slider (htc wizard aka doped 838) They had landscape slider w/ tilting screen (htc tytn) They had a convertible (htc universal) They had a qwerty bar (treo pro, htc cha cha) Now if all the competition is churning out slabs why not go the other way and serve a different form factor. I bought an htc cha cha good idea form factor wise but the specs were less than mediocre, htc should update this design and put A1 specs on it. no one is doing qwerty bar except blackberry....