“With Apple’s iPhone quickly approaching its release date, HTC and Microsoft knew they had to squeeze something out to compete,” Vince Veneziani reports for CrunchGear.
MacDailyNews Take: Descriptions for the HTC Touch don’t get more apt than “HTC and Microsoft had to squeeze something out.” It’s positively Zune-like.
Veneziani continues, “It uses Windows Mobile 6 combined with an overlaying GUI called “TouchFLO” that provides a similar experience to that of the iPhone. But can it compete with the #1 product that isn’t even out yet? No…”
The full review is here, but we can cut right to the chase. Compare the two videos below to see the HTC Touch sufferer struggling to accomplish even a subset of the things the iPhone user does with complete ease. The HTC Touch provides a “similar experience” to iPhone the same way Windows Vista provides a “similar experience” to Mac OS X. As in: it’s not similar at all; just ugly veneer. Cheesy new paneling over rotten wood. The HTC’s UI is a complete mishmash with old Windows mobile junk commingled with HTC’s iPhony icons; Microsoft must have “helped” HTC immensely with this piece. Just count the clicks, see all the hoops through which the HTC requires the sufferer to jump, and look at the many tiny, virtually “untouchable” targets he’s asked to click… and click… and click… and click some more…
Apple’s iPhone:
HTC Touch:
MacDailyNews Take: This is no different than the frustration of watching a Windows sufferer trying (and failing) to match what Mac OS X users do with ease. Why anyone would want to subject themselves to struggling with cheap fakes of vastly superior products remains well beyond our comprehension.
If someone wants to see the iPhone work as is, similar to this embarassing video of the HTC in action, youtube still has the original CBS interview that Schilller did. He shows the iPhone going through its paces. It’s not an advertisement video like the ones on Apple web site, just a show and tell right on the spot during Jan expo. Simply blows this piece of HTC/MS doo doo away.
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This FLO-thing is similar to the iPhone in the same sense that a three-legged old cat is “similar” to a young leopard.
Now, the “sorta-looks-like” iPhone add get’s a totally new meaning.
Steve Jobs would rather hit such a device with a sledge-hammer and send it back to the drawing board than present it to the public.
If this is the best MSFT can offer, than the iPhone will eat the Windows Mobile market as breakfast. Even the MSFT-fanbois at work wouldn’t want such a thing, for free.
Hilarious.
What a piece of junk! If that is the competition, then iPhone is going to own the whole market in less than a month. That thing was slow as hell.
And it is only $624.99. Wow.
At about 1 fps, watching the video is like viewing a slide show. Nice!
Not. Yegods, what a travesty. Why do they bother?
It’s like a pudgy kid competing in a bodybuilding contest with pillows under his t-shirt and a Superman “S” drawn on his chest, in crayon, backwards.
Can someone say lawsuit from Google.
the nail in the coffin why apple products ROCK!!! I don’t think “workable” is in Microsoft’s vocabulary.
if you edit out about 3 minutes of wait time – it’s just like the iPhone.
man, that was just sad to watch. The knockoff was just pathetic in comparison.
“It’s sweet, when the competition is a cargo cult. They reek with fear.”
Yes we smell the Apple fanboy fear today.
“if you edit out about 3 minutes of wait time – it’s just like the iPhone.”
Which is interestingly enough, what they did when creating the video for the iPhone ad.
What is this, a joke or smth? I just don’t understand why anybody in their right mind would buy such piece of crap.
OH…MY…GOD!!!
Sorry, somebody had to yell it out in disbelief. Sad thing is, some ignorant dufusii are gonna buy this poor imitation of a facsimile of a lemon.
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@ Reality
“It’s sweet, when the competition is a cargo cult. They reek with fear.”
Yes we smell the Apple fanboy fear today.
Did you mean “I” instead of “we”, or did you actually think your next 15 words would convince us all?
I consider fanboys to be STUBBORN, not gullible.
“if you edit out about 3 minutes of wait time – it’s just like the iPhone.”
Which is interestingly enough, what they did when creating the video for the iPhone ad.
Then, they zoomed in, edited the phone screen and background, added more close-ups, and changed the music.
Riiiiight.
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If Apple did<strike>n’t have to do</strike> all that hard work, then why does the iPhone look so much easier to use?
Now explain that to me with a second theory.
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One of the reasons why this site never fails to entertain are the folks like Realist, who are the “Baghdad Bob”s of computing. No lie is too insane for them to peddle. No conspiracy too shocking for them to accept. No matter what happens, they will continue singing the revolutionary leader’s praises, even when reality is 180 degrees opposite. I have yet to find people so stubbornly removed from reality outside of newspapers and insane asylums.
Has anyone sent a copy of this video to John Dvorak yet? After all, he’s convinced that there will be lots of alternatives to the iPhone within the next quarter or so.
“Why anyone would want to subject themselves to struggling with cheap fakes of vastly superior products remains well beyond our comprehension.”
Why? Because to many consumers, that sentence reads like this:
“Mm mmmm mmmm mmm m mmm mmmmm m mmmm m CHEAP! mm m mm mmm mmm mm mm mmm m mmmmmmmm.”
And don’t even try pointing out to them that they’ve been spending an iPhone’s worth every year paying for cable TV service that delivers mainly useless garbage, or that they could get the major network shows for FREE with an antenna.
I am of to the psychiatrist! I need to lie on a couch after watching that!
The guy in the video can’t possibly have a girlfirend.
Can you just imagine the grief he would get if they were both hungary, and he stuffed around with that stupid, incompetent device for what would seem, to any ordinary reasonable person (I include the girlfirend, so it’s a wide definition) like an eternity.
P.S. It’s also reeeeeallly ugly. So the girlfirend isn’t going to approve of anything except the iPhone, so it’s all a mute argument, by the (girlfriendless) PC weenies.
Yikes
Well,a joke indeed! I am a fan of HTC but couldn’t stand the embarrassment and created a video which shows both the phones in action,may be you would like to show it to your customers here :
iPhone wins by a huge margin!!
“matter what happens, they will continue singing the revolutionary leader’s praises,”
An Apple fanboy can make those comments with a straight face?
When you get your iPhone, power it up and run through the sequence shown in the ads. See if it works that quickly and smoothly for you.
Hint: It doesn’t.
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You should say you liked the beauty in the simplicity of my one word statement.
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did you all ever stop to think that maybe the htc user was new to the phone? i have the touch and my fiance has the iphone. i know i was clumsy with the htc phone but now i use it like a pro. which isn’t saying much apparently but when i have to use his i phone i have difficulties because of the screen and the layout. i still have no idea how to access the making a phone call. or get the www bar to come up on an old page of the web with that blasted phone of his.
“Why anyone would want to subject themselves to struggling with cheap fakes of vastly superior products remains well beyond our comprehension.”
1. Because if you’re so gaddamed retarded that you can’t do on XP what you do on OS-X you probably should never touch a computer again in your life. Macs are for children who have no interest in or conception of how their technology works, they just want it to look pretty.
2. Most people don’t want to get charged out the ass for “vastly superior” products that use the same hardware and have the same capabilities that something a third of the price offers them. Not to mention Apple’s just EXCELLENT customer support, based around this central theme:
“Huh? It’s not working?! Better buy another one. A refund? Nah… but we’ll give you 5% off!”
Apple is robbing you idiots blind. It’s a status symbol as shallow as 24″ rims on a Caddilac CTS. And you know that other 90% of the market share? They see right through it.