I had people asking me what kind of phone it is, or who made it, and I never heard of it. Some even question who is the provider and so on. A couple of time, I answered that it's not just a phone, it's a Pocket PC. Even then they don't know what Pocket PC is. They ask if it's Palm.
Of course, that's when I told them, it's more powerful, I can watch full 2 hours+ movie in this, browse the internet with IE. One person was so awe about this device, he's willing to pay premium for it and he works in a Cellphone place.
It really tickles me how I have to explain about this device and seeing their face changes as I explain the things I can do by showing them. It doesn't even look like a phone.
I want to hear what people say about the XDA II or similar device that's not available in the U.S. Maybe you guys wants to share? Or even places where XDA II or similar device isn't available in that country.
Yeah, that's been my experience too. It's even worse now with the XDA II and a Bluetooth headset. I guess I'm kinda used to it, since I had an Apple Newton since they were released. Handhelds just didn't exist at all then, so it was a real attention-grabber.
Even helped with dates. If a lady of appropriate specifications asked about how it worked, I'd pop open a "new contact" form and let her have a go. Usually I'd get a knowing smirk and a number.
If you think it's like that in the US, you would have fallen on the floor laughing if you were with me in Mexico when I tried to get a prepaid SIM for it. They were asking what phone it was for, and didn't understand "Pocket PC," so I pulled it out to show them. Well, I may as well have pulled a wiggling baby alien out of my pocket and thrust it at them, judging by their reaction and wide eyes.
Since I use my XDA for just about everything, I get questions from people in all facets of business. I've used it on-the-spot to check car ratings and comparitive prices while standing in front of the salesman. He was rather taken aback, as he lost his ability to bull**** me. I used it while looking for a house for a recent move. Got the agent hooked on the idea, she said she was going to buy one. I keep my shopping list on it and occasionally look up nutritional info while in the store (I'm diabetic, have to watch some things). Speaking of that, I track blood sugar vs. sugar intake, as well as other dietary info to help me understand my needs. Other people with dietary needs are amazed at how it simplifies life. I track the cars and motorcycle with it. TV shows. And on and on. It seems that no matter what I do, I'm using my XDA to do it, so it gets a lot of exposure.
In Washington DC where I'm going to school they sell the Siemens SX56 (xda I) and the MDA I and MDA II at TMobile... but yah generally people look at my phone and go wtf is that
They are obviously common in the UK then as noone seems to take a second look at it when i'm using mine,
I see at least 4 or 5 people every day with XDA2's on the train into london in the mornings and it not the same people either!,
most people seem to just hold it to their head to talk on it, but i think it much easier to use a bluetooth headset with it
tmobile and o2 are not present around here but the 2 mayor cellphone company offer the qtek series but mainly to companies
and orange sell their m1000 even see them in comercials but thats with tomtom and i doubt many people know it's a gsm phone aswell
suppose xda series are less known in us because they are not cma or 550Ghz
but mda3 / qtek9090 comes in both versions
I was looking for XDA II or something similar to it here in T-Mobile shop but come to a disppointed conclusion. There seem to be selling it on the East Coast rather than West Coast. T-Mobile specified they carry it, but when I looked for it, it's not available and the sales person were like, is that a phone? How come there's no antenna.
A couple of times when I took my phone out to make a phone call, people just look at it as a pda. Not until I got a phone call while doodling with it when they realize it's a phone too.
My co-worker was making fun of it saying, phones are getting smaller and here he is carrying a brick. Haha. So it's a multi-function brick, small phones can't do what this thing can do. I love it. Thanks for sharing guys. Great story.
nokias havent had antennas for ages
if they carry it on the other cost cant you just order it online rather then go to a shop where they would not know a pocketpc if it attacked and eate them and everybody they knew ?
recall when the first xda1 version i heard off came out which was the siemens 56 whatever it was only in the us and it took a few of months to reach here of cause maybe tmobile and o2 had them before i dont know
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They say I'll be out by the end out the month..?
No prices yet though
The dummy is available in the shops and wasnt as big as I was expecting..
Yay, I like Orange. I played with the Demo in their shop, its actualy a good dummy phone, close to the real thing.
Also, Go to the website and get yourself a £1 payg sim.
Then spend £1 on ALL YOU CAN EAT gprs for the day.
Its in their catalogue, you can buy £4 for 4meg for the month, or £1 a day for all you want. Thats the best gprs deal ive seen anywhere, including most of the contracts.
£1 a day for all day!? sounds interesting!
thanks for the info.
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They say I'll be out by the end out the month..?
No prices yet though
The dummy is available in the shops and wasnt as big as I was expecting..
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Last time i rang them (which has been quite a lot over the last few weeks) they said it would be November when it was coming out..... getting so impatient now, been holding off getting a new phone for months to get this!
spoke to oramge in paddington station, and there is an offer where you get 1gig a month fo 3 month, which is great, but then after that you are down to 25 megs for 25 quid or something. they weren't able to offer anything in between.
The 1 gig for three months is a standard offer on all new contracts, its to get you "hooked" on data so they can then sell you loads.
They do sell bundles on their 'data' tarifs, and not too bad, about £25 for 65meg i think.
guys iv been with orange for donkey years and get my devices free on an upgrade (pda's etc) but this time im going to get the o2 exec pro, i know i know same spec etc but the o2 device (to me) just looks great!!!
whats your opinions on the looks for the devices jasjar the m5000 and the rest what looks the best??
p.s orange upgrades told me today it could be 18 oct if were lucky or nov, but thats orange for ya, always last to provide
as far as looks go,
The VPA IV i havent seen in person but it looks plain white to me
not that appealing, it just looks like a gameboy ds, not professional at all
The MDA Pro looks smart with the (almost) aluminium appearance
not the best looking phone of the lot but theres worse (see above)
The SPV M5000 has a gunmetal finish
i guess it can be appealing, its not as good looking as the MDA in my opinion
but they are close
to me though its a tie between the Jasjar and the XDA Exec in terms of sheer appearance, the black simply looks far more professional, and in my opinion far less of a toy (like the VPA), the only thing that clinches it between the 2 is the blue backlight on the keys of the XDA Exec. It's all down to preferance in the end, but that's mine
quiltfish << NICE JIBE :twisted: at the m2000, mate i couldnt agree more! lol :lol: i dont need a gun to defend my self iv got the m2000
just orded myo2 exec online cant wait till i get my hands on it!
I received a phone call today from a company (I can't remember their name) offering me a Free upgrade phone if I stay with Orange.
When I mentioned that I was only interested in the SPV M5000, he looked it up on his system and said that it had failed the testing by Orange and won't be available until February.
He didn't try to sell me an alternative, so I don't believe he was saying it to get me to choose another phone.
I hope he has got it wrong, but who knows. (Orange CS certainly don't) :?
I rang orange this afternoon and they told me it was just finishing the testing and would be ready for the end of the month!
I'm sure these people just pick a phrase out of a hat and say whatever it says!
If Orange mess about much more, i'll give up my 7 year relationship with them and move on..... I never can understand why they are always the last to release new phones!
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>>> thats sales guys talking outa his ass. They will be releasing it as th chap here inoranges store has the device and let me have a play with it- the only issue he reported is that bcauses Oranges 3g Coverage is so poor customers will mainly be using 2g unless they are in a strong signal area(which are limited)but i guess they have to prove to the market that as always they are the last ones to bring out devices-mate iv been with orange contract for 7 donkey years and even though iwork for Vdafone I kept my main contractwith Orange as you know, you get used to having something around for so long(ABIT LIKE THE MISSES :lol: -- scrap that o shel kick my head in! :shock:
and my bills on average of 70-100 a month so all my upgrades i get for free (m2000) so i calld them and asked what they can do as my upgrades due in march they said they will let me upgrade in dec the earliset and they will give me the m5000 free- BUT i cant wait that long an as i prefar the look of the XDA-exec iv just orded that with O2 online and when i get my m5000 im floging it for a healthy profit
and guys they are going to offer you the 18 month contracts when you try to upgrade as being the best thing since a micro wave! but becarefull-catches : you can not upgrade for 18 months! and your phones warrenty period isonly for 12 months! soon though 12 month contrats will be phased out. Vodfone strated itandORangeo2 have followed suit.
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JUST GOT MY O2 EXEC!!!!!
and im loving it. been playing with it for a few hours theeeeeeeeeeeeeee only this that annoyed me was o2 active, id never used it before and iv read some people hate it and some love it well i hated it! tried to uninstall it through remove programmes dint do it so had to go into windows folder and hunt the files out I still have the battery icon on the top of my screen next to start does anyone know how to get rid of this?
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ok just released while I was on a mission to remove o2 active iv just buggerd up task manager, so i guess here we go with a reformat-- can anyone b kind enough to advise how to remove o2 active safely?
anyway besides from that i really love the device so far iv made a video call and that was good(until i lost 3g coverage-lol) and im geting use the device-even though its BIGGER and HEAVIER then my m2000 it feels fragile???
Im going to go hunt for sum quality stereo Bluetooth headsets and a stylish case
N2h said:
JUST GOT MY O2 EXEC!!!!!
and im loving it. been playing with it for a few hours theeeeeeeeeeeeeee only this that annoyed me was o2 active, id never used it before and iv read some people hate it and some love it well i hated it! tried to uninstall it through remove programmes dint do it so had to go into windows folder and hunt the files out I still have the battery icon on the top of my screen next to start does anyone know how to get rid of this?
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ok just released while I was on a mission to remove o2 active iv just buggerd up task manager, so i guess here we go with a reformat-- can anyone b kind enough to advise how to remove o2 active safely?
anyway besides from that i really love the device so far iv made a video call and that was good(until i lost 3g coverage-lol) and im geting use the device-even though its BIGGER and HEAVIER then my m2000 it feels fragile???
Im going to go hunt for sum quality stereo Bluetooth headsets and a stylish case
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It's very very difficult, but here goes.
READ THE F*CKING MANUAL
At startup you can choose basic, personal or corporate. Choose BASIC to get all your UK settings and skins and battery icon in today screen. No menus or anything else.
once again, READ THE F*CKING MANUAL!
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READ THE F*CKING MANUAL
At startup you can choose basic, personal or corporate. Choose BASIC to get all your UK settings and skins and battery icon in today screen. No menus or anything else.
once again, READ THE F*CKING MANUAL![/quote]<<<<<<<<
WHAT A ****ING TWAT! YEH THATS YOU "Southern_Man"
LISTEN PRICK WATCH YOUR ****ING LANGUAGE, OK ASSHOLE WHEN YOU SELECT BASIC OPTION ON INSTALLATION IT STILL INSTALLS THE "****ING FILES" TO YOUR DEVICE-SO RETARD KEEP YOUR ****ING OPINIONS TO YOURSELF!
AND IF YOUR PREPARED TO GIVE OTHER PEOPLE ABUSE WHEN THERE NO NEED TAKE THAT JUNK THAT YOU CALL A PDA AND SHOVE IT WHERE THE SUN DOES NOT SHINE"! ****!
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I had a nice prepaid subscription with an upstarting provider back when I lived in Oslo. Free gprs/mms without any limitations whatsoever. My counter stopped on 4gigs after being online for a year but I think that's probably an error on the programme's side. Or?
Arctura >>
your one lucky guy!! lol
i dont think you should call your service provider to discuss this oversight!
its a shame we cant get a fluke like that with the uk networks
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Also, Go to the website and get yourself a £1 payg sim.
Then spend £1 on ALL YOU CAN EAT gprs for the day.
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wow... that is brilliant - thanks very much for pointing that out - you've probably saved me a fortune
i've got an O2 xda exec, but have ordered myself a £1 orange sim for those days when i know i've got a long train journey
(if anyone else is interested - see http://www.orange.co.uk/service_plans/payasyougo/extra_costs.html#more_Extras)
I want to purchase a TyTN and have been checking around on the Internet. I haven't done business with any of the USA companies that sell them, nor can I find many reviews about companies selling them. I was wondering if any of you might pretty please let me know where you bought yours, and perhaps what you paid....there seems to be a wide margin. Everything from low 700's to high 800's. We are in Florida and there are no companies around that have them so I'll have to get one through the Internet. We currantly have Cingular cell service. Are all sold "Unlocked"? Thanks a lot for any input you can give me either on this list or privately.
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Tried http://www.dynamism.com ? They supply a wide range of mobile devices (a lot of them imports, so they get the good stuff early) at what I considered to be fair prices... They supplied a Sony Vaio UX50 (one of the models from Sony's new TINY range of proper PCs which sit in a little dock on your desk or can be carried about!) which was reviewed by JK of jkOnTheRun.com (and he sang Dynamism's praises, so I guess I'd recommend them too)...
Went by yesterday and they said that the Kaiser (Cingular version) will be out in June to replace the 8525 at the same price. Do they know something that we dont.
Unfortunately, I have my doubts because the salesKid didn't even know that the 8525 was based on the HTC TYTN. I mentioned the front facing camera and he had the deer in headlights look. I politely said never mind, thank you, and walked out.
The vast majority of Cingular employees don't know much more than a phones basic specs, and that's IF they bothered enough to read them. I haven't found one that knew WM6 even existed, and most are clueless on the services too. It took me 3 different people to get the right answer about what "unlimited text" really meant, since my original plan had them charging me for IM's sent via Agile, WHEN I WAS TOLD UNLIMITED DATA WOULD COVER THOSE! However, I can't be angry. It's a part-time job for a lot of them, and they're there to make sales and collect a paycheck. The people on here know more than Cingular does.
I totally agree. Ive been dating a cingy store manager for about year. Its pretty funny because she ends up asking me technical questions about her own products, or answers to problems that her IT guy cant figure out, or updates on when WM6 is releasing, etc.
The information on forums like these are lightyears ahead of what average cell phone company employees know. If I EVER had a technical question about my phone or other gadget, the first thing I would do is visit a forum, the last thing I would do is ask the guy to makes $5/hr at the cingy store...
I actually turned on a Cingular store manager to this forum and now he's hooked. He's installed various dif. roms and tweaks and whatnot. He actually thought that unlocking his phone would make it NOT work on Cingular network in the beginning...talk about Cingy brainwashing.
An authorized reseller sales guy actually pointed me towards these forums. He seemed to know his stuff.
Im A Cingular or new att whatever employee. Been one for almost 4 years. And it is true, there are just some employees here who dont give a **** about phones. They are just here to sell them and not make it part of their lifes like we all have. To them it all seems to boring. But hey these phones arent meant for everyone. And as far as the kaiser it will be out i believe in june, but as far as cingular they most likely will be releasing it sometime in august or late 2007. Maybe even 2008. Depending on all that testing crap they do.
Yeah - it's like anything else... some are into it and others are crappy. I have run into some EXCELLENT Cingular reps and some really completely clueless ones. I wil say (and I hope I do not offend anyone here) that it appears that the original blue AT&T reps seem in general to be the most knowledgable - especially in terms of phones and such. Of course, that could just be my experience or my geography, but that has been my experience to date.
I am sure that there are people at each of our jobs (or schools) that just do the minimum to get by and then others that go to the max to do their best all the time. It takes all kinds.
Im a Mobile Data Specialist(title is prolly gonna change soon) in a southern market. most employees dont know a thing about the phones they sell.
in fact Im appalled whenever I meet salespeople. most dont even really know what a megabyte actually is. never mind the difference between WAP and HTML or wtf a rom is.
about the kaiser. I was told to expect it in spetember which seems to make more sense since
A) we have not recieved any info about an expected release date from cingular and should have if it was coming out in june
B) european versions have not yet hit the market and
C) an HTC representative told me him or herself that the expected release date is in september.
it is possible that test versions will ship to us in june but I doubt a sales rep would know that. normally it takes about three months to certify a device.
some people know more than others because they may be friends with some HTC reps like me.
or maybe they are marketing directors
or if theyre really lucky they are QA testers.
Just a thought that came to me...
I was perusing some old posts about when the g1 came out. It seems funny to me that since the launch of the g1 and android, the people that loves the iphone (fanboys -- trying not to be flaming here - lol), How many comments about how this phone is going to die out soon and what not. I think back when the iphone came out and that was only just over 2 years ago, and the g1 is now only 3 months shy of its birthday, how many people bashed this phone.
I love this phone and most people at work would love to have one, but they aren't on t-mobile. They like what the capabilities of this phone will become and then some. I think that they were wrong to get rid of the keyboard, I like being able to type and the screen and not half hidden by a vk.
I think that the prices on the market are such that it will also bring people this this system (not just the phones). With what is coming out from the various manufactures that are makikng android phones, i think about the fact that there is only 2 phones available from the iphone....
I wonder how dead is this phone? If this OS came in a flip phone (because that is what my wife wants), then I will be more than happy to give her one. All in all, I will stick with android, not because i am a "fanboy", but because I believe in the magic of opensource and helping one another is what being human is about.
So, one last comment before I put my drunk ass to bed, dollars to doughnuts, this'll be around for awhile. I like both phones, they are basically the same under all the glitter. But, hey, everyone has a choice.
have a great 4th of july everyone, and if you are not from the USA, then I hope you have a great 4th of july also.
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Just a thought that came to me...
I wonder how dead is this phone?.
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The phone isn't dead, it's because T-Mobile doesn't really give a crap about their phones enough to actually market them. They also don't care about you, the consumer. Honestly, all they care about is their bottom line.
Look at any call center. Many call centers constantly run competitions for CSR's to win some widget. Sell x amount of this brand of phone and win a prize.
Know what that means? When a consumer calls in wanting a Blackberry (or whatever), the CSR is going to do whatever they can to convince you to buy phone brand x because they want to win the widget, not because they give a damn about what phone would best suite you.
Tmobile actively encourages this kind of crap and they should be ashamed.
Very true. Back in Jan someone I know went to tmo asking about the g1. The rep told him it sucks buy a blackberry, (the flip one.. pearl maybe? I dunno). That was the craziest thing I have ever heard. Bb > android? Is this guy high?.. lol needless to say he has since returned and purchased the g1 after talking to me. I just thought this to be insane.
http:// http://androidheadlines.com/2013/05/htc-one-still-not-selling-as-well-as-the-galaxy-s4.html
It's interesting reading this article and the readers posts.
From my experience unless your buying an iPhone or Samsung the sales assistant does not know a thing and will guide you to either if you ask for anything but these 2 brands?
If I try and buy accessories for my HTC One it's almost near impossible as well.
Yesterday I was in Bluewater shopping center in Kent, now until Westfield opened it was the largest shopping center in europe.
I walked from one end of it to the other and there's 2x carphone warehouse, 2x phones4u, 1x EE, 2X O2, 1x Vodafone, 1x independent phone shop.
Now I kid you not I just wanted a replacement case for my phone, no one and I mean no one had one!
What they did have mind is racks of s4 cases! But ironic as it is they didn't have any s4 phones!
When I did enquire they just brushed me off and always gave a negative passing comment.
This I would like to think would not be having a negative effect on their sales but I can bet is has? When I upgraded the sale assistant was 'advising' me to wait 4 weeks for the new Samsung handset as it would be 'worth the wait'.
Has anyone else had experiences like this?
My local cpw prefered the one over the Sony I went in to look at. They suggested waiting for an iphone, I wasn't interested. They only had the car holder available for the one, no cases or anything else. The car holder I bought for £14 less from ebay, shopping around helps.
The shop didn't have a real one as a demo unit, so I bought it without seeing one. Glad I did though
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My local cpw prefered the one over the Sony I went in to look at. They suggested waiting for an iphone, I wasn't interested. They only had the car holder available for the one, no cases or anything else. The car holder I bought for £14 less from ebay, shopping around helps.
The shop didn't have a real one as a demo unit, so I bought it without seeing one. Glad I did though
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I have to agree with both of the above comments. I tried cancelling my contract via retentions and wanted to ask for deals on the HTC one. All I gotwas deals on cheap ass phones and when I asked about deals on the HTC one they realised I wanted something high end and said I could pre order the s4 or the iPhone is a good phone. I was like.... No .... I'm interested in the HTC one. Sure enough any "deals" were the same as a new customer could get by goinng through the website! Needless to say I got my Pac code and left.
The retentions guy and subsequent calls had no interest in offering the HTC one at all and like mentioned above. It's either Samsung or iPhone they offer people. Unless people see the one for themselves and don't get swade by the sales people HTC will miss a lot of sales due to the sales pitch of customer reps pushing other brands instead of being impartial like they claim to be!!
Can anyone tell us whether commission or sales bonuses etc have a bearing on this?
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Yes I noticed this too, already when I was deciding on buying a desire and wanted to see some all sales assistants always wanted to show me the sgs too.
Anyway Samsung is smart I saw they make a lot of accessories for their phones too. I still haven't found a pouch for my One and indeed lots of accessories for the sgs4 even when it hadn't even been released.
One assistant though assured me none of the pouches would fit because he had tried them for his own One.
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It's a shop assistant.
It knows less than you do but is convinced that it knows more.
See also record shops and hi-fi shops.
Clothes shop assistants are the opposite because they always know you look a total spunt in what you've chosen to wear but will never tell you.
Avoid shop assistants.
Maybe we should make HTC aware of our experiences if this is happening to us I wonder how many more it happened to?
Surely this has to be having some impact on their sales?
I was in Carphone Warehouse the other day; a couple in front of me were wanting to Upgrade there HTC Incredible S, first of all the assistant kept calling it the One S, obviously not having a clue what phone they were on about. Secondly the couple said they were preferable looking for another HTC and the assistant came out with "oh I wouldn't bother, Samsung is what everyone wants and should have now" and tried to tie them down to a S2 for 2 years.
This isn't the first time I've seen Carphone Warehouse and there Samsung biased. It's ridiculous. After they were gone and I finally got served, I told her the One was the best phone I'd ever used and not everyone "wants a Samsung" she didn't have much to say this time around.
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I was in Carphone Warehouse the other day; a couple in front of me were wanting to Upgrade there HTC Incredible S, first of all the assistant kept calling it the One S, obviously not having a clue what phone they were on about. Secondly the couple said they were preferable looking for another HTC and the assistant came out with "oh I wouldn't bother, Samsung is what everyone wants and should have now" and tried to tie them down to a S2 for 2 years.
This isn't the first time I've seen Carphone Warehouse and there Samsung biased. It's ridiculous. After they were gone and I finally got served, I told her the One was the best phone I'd ever used and not everyone "wants a Samsung" she didn't have much to say this time around.
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This behaviour is quiet concerning, I took the time to email them yyesterday after reading the replies.
I have to ask how damaging must this been to a company like HTC who right now are on the ropes?
Well its taken 4 high streets, 1 retail park and 2 shopping centres but i managed to find a case!
O2 had 3 in stock, they said the only get a few at a time because of lack of interest, again asked why didnt i wait for the SG4?
I remembered after I posted, I went to cpw 3 times altogether, first time I was told the phone was free with the contract I wanted. But my gf was moaning so we left. I went back just before the shop closed but then found I needed to pay a bit towards it. I didn't have any money on me.
I went back the following morning, the nice girl told me they where out of stock. I said you had them last night when you closed, can you check.
The nice girl came back with the phone I wonder how many other customers where turned away. If I hadn't insisted they had them I would have left without it.
HTC could do with better support from retailers
Samsung offer very large subsidies/rewards to retailers who sell their phones especially the flagship model which is maybe why everyone gets redirected to those phones. Also HTC brand awareness is not as strong as Samsung or Apple whose marketing budget is ridiculous! Samsung have released several adverts for the S4, especially in America where as I can only just remember the HTC one advert.
I know HTC in America have started offering vouchers or cash back to customers who buy their phone so may be more ONES will be sold in the future.
posted from a month ago, but While I was at the At&t store, Really surprised how:
A): not a single person was looking at the 3 HTC ones they had displayed -the guy couldn't even find them through the sea of other phones. I barely noticed them and showed him where they were - after I finally found them. No one there seemed to know anything about the phone either. Was there for an hour and NO ONE (except me) even looked at one and there were probably 30-40 people there. Funny thing is i thought there would be a crowd and id have to fight for one. SADLY was a breeze. This was the first week they were out.The store was litered with samsung, apple and LG.
And B): the ONE display was facing the back of the store and was no where even remotely visible to anyone that could walk in. Not even noticeable unless you knew that the phone was aluminum and knew exactly what you were looking for.
you expect too much from these shops
its like expecting camera advice in pcworld
they have heaps of phones and want to sell the latest, because these have the highest margins
the CPW i went into were quite sanguine about the one vs s4, the assistant said the one is nicer and they were roughly selling 50/50
i eventually bought it from a phones4u as it was cheaper and they weren't umming and arring about selling one off contract
There are two things about this issue.
First of all, not all of the sellers have tech knowledge good enough and yes it doesn't make sense. BUT, it is kinda understandable. I mean, there will be someone else there who can help you.
But what really annoys me had happened to me a few days ago. I was in a biiiig techmarket, comparing XZ, S4 and One, and some stupid sales assistant came and was like "omg why are you checking them just buy s4 rest is crap"
Even if what he said was true, this was the most annoying thing i've ever heard from a sales assistant. You are only there to inform, noone cares about your subjective comments. I'd have fired him right away.
Two largest T-mobile centres here and another operator (3 total) never heard of One, still don't have it and don't know when will it arrive. They all redirect me to information about One S, SV, etc.
People are raging like nuts here, spamming T-mobile and HTC pages on Facebook, etc.
Consequences of bad marketing...
I work at Cpw and I do my best to promote the one. We only have two types of cases and at least 6 different for the s4
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I work at Cpw and I do my best to promote the one. We only have two types of cases and at least 6 different for the s4
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The sales assistant that helped me with my One today complained about same thing. He said that HTC One is the "not so popular" big gun. He said they don't have any accessories yet, not even from HTC.
Oh well, at least the phone is sooo good this time.
I just picked up my One yesterday.
I walked into the Telus store and asked the salesman what he would recommend in an android phone and the first one he showed me was the HTC One!
Also the Nexus 4 was recommended as well.
He barely mentioned the SG4. It was tucked away with the rest of the phones but the One was right in front of the door as you walked in and couldn't miss it if you tried.
When asked what phone he would use, he picked the HTC One.
Things are looking up.