http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/ Engadget Mobile Comments for HTC acquires design firm One & Co http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/Dec 3rd 2008 12:28PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/
What were they thinking putting 8-buttons on the same surface mixed with capacitive touch that isn't even used for most of the buttons? Who does their QA now?

Might as well have vehicle makers get rid of steering wheels and change them all to joysticks. Btw, steering wheels are resistant to vibration and g-forces, and so multi-buttons are resistant to getting pressed at the same time versus that abomination known as a d-pad on the Touch Pro.

It was just super-genius to throw away their Tilt innovation (which Nokia now picked up), as well as finally falling in line with d-pad set up that's been in usage BEFORE cellphones.

HTC just signed death-warrants on future products since they still cannot grasp pretty from rock-solid usability from their high-error touch UI to their new, high-wear, surface unstable, sticky, finger-print attracting cases.

Xperia already handing Touch Pro its ass for preferred design. Stay a sleep HTC, because a steering wheel lets you.]]>Dec 3rd 2008 1:52PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/Dec 3rd 2008 6:11PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/I gave back the HTC touch pro because I could'nt stand it, and the lag is due to the bloated touch flo software not win mobile.
Samsung managed the incredible with the latest incarnation of touch wiz on the Omnia: win mobile now is fast and actually easy to use on a touch screen.

Oh I also tried HTC touch HD : it sucks too.
Same problems as the diamond and the touch pro. One of my friend who just love the touch HD screen and wants to keep on using it (even while admitting the Omnia's superiority as a smartphone) has disabled the Touch Flo software to make it more usable.
And as GPS the Omnia, that comes with route66, googlemaps + street view is even better, faster and more precise than my dedicaded garmin 670 gps device.
Try it to belive it.
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I just hope they don't prevent them for designing for other companies as well.]]>Dec 4th 2008 9:24AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/03/htc-acquires-design-firm-one-and-co/Dec 12th 2008 5:08PM