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Okay, by rights this should be in the HD2 forum, but, well, this forum's my home!
Where is the promotion for the HD2? I walked past six phone-shops today, including two Phones4U and two CarphoneWarehouses, and there is not a single HD2 display - no posters, no display models, and the two salespeople I asked had no clue what phone I was on about.
This is a fantastic phone - the cutting-edge of WinMob, and something that can outclass Androids and the iPhone in most areas (not all, but most).
And yet it's unheard of. It's frustrating; I've become a phone geek since getting my Blackstone, but I would never have heard of it myself without this site and PocketNow.com. And hence the phone will fall by the wayside because it has NO CHANCE of hitting the mainstream.
If it was an inferior product I'd assume HTC were embarrased by their product, but they can't be, so why are the sales/marketing team making no effort?
It gets a little worse: I'm a Science/Tech reporter for a national UK newspaper / international website, and I approached their marketing team twice for a demo model. If they'd got back in touch with me they'd have received a glowing (slightly biased) review in front of 25million+ eyeballs. Instead, they never returned my calls/email, and as such the review went unwritten.
I just don't get the point. Okay, perhaps it's a business model, perhaps its on the premium side, but why would they not bother to promote it? Has anyone seen it advertised anywhere except through previews/reviews on the web? Heck, if they need a PR guy, just send me a message, but I just want to know their reasons for hiding the product, and if there isn't one, to rant at their marketing team!!
Any thoughts, anyone?
Tons of ads on tv here in Norway.
hi there
as you can see im from holland
i am watching some tv and serving the site a little on my phone
i see a htc comercial everybight multiple times at comedy central as of i just seen a comercial specialy for hd2 so they have comrcials for it
i will try to check up a count of how many times i see the comercial
best regards
miniterror
TV ads for it in both UK & Ireland
Fallen Spartan said:
TV ads for it in both UK & Ireland
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The only HTC ads ive ever seen on TV or on Billboards was for the tatoo lol
mancsoulja said:
The only HTC ads ive ever seen on TV or on Billboards was for the tatoo lol
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ok, well I've seen adds for HD2 in Ireland (both north & south) and also scotland. Not sure why HTC wouldn't advertise HD2 elsewhere in the UK if already doing so in both N.Ireland & Scotland
Cool, I am glad it's being advertised in places, but I've yet to see a TV-spot or billboard in England, or as I said been able to walk into a mainstream phone-shop and buy it, but I'm glad other places are gettig coverage.
I've seen a lot of HTC Hero adverts etc etc.
HD2 is on the elctrenoic billboards at Oxford Circus tube station. This is a Vodafone add that shows the rather ordinary and boring Windows Start Screen but not HTC Sense? Crazy.
I just want to remind everyone with an evo that they have no reason to not support America in there world cup bid because now with Sprint Tv and Espn Mobile you can catch coverage on the go, and it streams pretty nicely on 4g.
Sprint TV was always horrible, at least with my vogue. plus, click on the wrong thing and sprint will add a 9$ charge to your bill. First app I will delete when I get comfortable with rooting this beast, then the rest of the sprint bloatware crap.
American football > soccer imo.
Chandler
I look forward to catching all of the games and might watch some while at work on my phone
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I watched MMA live the other day and loved it. Only problem is that I do not get good service in my office and it will not work with Wifi.
I'm from Nigeria so I ain't supporting any other country . Anyway, I plan on following the games via tvcatchup.com. Wonder if it works on Android...
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jscurek said:
Sprint TV was always horrible, at least with my vogue. plus, click on the wrong thing and sprint will add a 9$ charge to your bill. First app I will delete when I get comfortable with rooting this beast, then the rest of the sprint bloatware crap.
American football > soccer imo.
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Sprint Tv on EVO with 4g goin isnt bad at all, its actually quite clear, and the espn mobile channel is free and the ui isnt that bad to where your gonna click on something and accidently subscribe. I do prefer american football over soccer but its hard not to like any sport imho. Especially world events. beside, i didnt know the NFL was goin on friday or Saturday, Whos playing????
They need to fix the syncing issues and I hope they do before the World Cup starts. They also need to bump up the resolution of the video so it matches our screens. The images just look horrible. It's a shame we're getting the same feed as a feature phone.
I had no idea, but ESPN is broadcasting the Soccer World Cup for free on Sprint TV. You can watch the U.S. playing Slovenia right now. I knew there was ESPN, but I never thought they would let us watch this event for free. I thought it was against FIFA rules, but I was wrong! Enjoy.
wow, thanks! watching it on Sprint TV now with 4G! 3G is little pixelated..
USA is down 2-1 right now.. GO USA!
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Just curious if it lived up to all the hype, or if the price poured water on the fire.
I waited in a line of 3 people... they had 10 xooms.
But oh man. Honeycomb is God. Google Music is sexy aswell
There was no line, but one other person showed up to get one while I was checking out shortly after they opened the doors.
So far, I really... really like it... more-so than I was expecting.
Everyone is impressed by Apple's lines for new Apple products, but those are most often picked up at Apple stores, of which there are a very limited number in most cities (often no more than one). I never expected much of a line for the Xoom, but the fact that it's available at so many locations really limits the ability to create those impressive snakes that make it on the news whenever the next iPhone launches. In other words, there's no go-to place to pick up the latest and greatest Android device.
But of course, Motorola so botched this launch, that I don't think the Xoom ever had a chance to really be huge.
Went to my local Verizon store. I was the only one in there buying a Xoom.
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I waited in a line of 3 people... they had 10 xooms.
But oh man. Honeycomb is God. Google Music is sexy aswell
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I suspect there is still no streaming your home music from home PC to device a la the tech Google acquired from SimplifyMedia? I am tired of using audiogalaxy. I need a streaming solution that differentiates between music and audiobooks.
In BB there was 4 of us picking ours up. In Verizon store no one had bought one yet.
My Best buy was practically empty. The salesman mentioned that someone else had already picked one up, but it was pretty damn quiet there.
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I was the first person and only person in line at 10:00am
Andy (Notioninkhacks)
I was the first and only person buying at Costco at about 10:45am.
At the nearest corporate VZ store, I was told I was only the 2nd customer of the day purchasing a Xoom.
However, about an hour after I walked out of the store I got a call from a sales rep that had been reserving a unit for me; she said she was hanging on to the last one they had in the store.
Seeing as how I didn't see much demand, each store must have gotten very few for launch day. The store manager raved about the device though, he said that yesterday the Moto rep had come in to show them all the bells and whistles. The manager looked like a gadget geek, and he was oozing excitement about the tablet.
I called my Best Buy today and they still had the iPhone Verizon launch announcement, from last week.
I went in to demo it in the afternoon - a few people looked at it after me but I didn't see any major push for the device. It was in the laptop section and not very easy to find.
Only 2 at BB at 10am
There was only 2 of us picking up at 10 am. They only had 5 and were all sold day before. I think people are waiting to see what Ipad 2 has to offer.
My Best Buy had 3 sold within an hour of opening (including me).
My bestbuy had 10 of them when i got there..& i was the only 1 at that time picking up the Xoom..the sales guy told me another person had picked up 1 before me ..but he said that everybody had been coming in to see it.
I have three Verizon stores in *close* driving distance, one Apple store. There's not lines because Verizon has more stores. Not to mention Best Buys.
Apple's releases are initially mostly limited to Apple stores, so the get the lines, creates a look of more hype, etc. Apple's a genius at receiving customers to make more hype than there should be.
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At the verizon store I was told I was the third one of the day, around noon. They aren't pushing it, there weren't even signs up for it, still iphone stuff everywhere.
I got my pre-order call to pickup my Xoom, I left work drove 40 miles to my best buy and when I got there only to find they sold mine. I was ready to rip this guys off, he called around and found one a few miles away now I have one. Love it but typing this is vary laggy
there weren't any lines at the verizon store near me but their shipment sold out within an hour of opening. i went back later on around 7pm to pick up a case and they told me they shipped more over from another store and they sold those out within 30 minutes.
I was the only one in the VZ store picking one up and now I have to return it for the %25 off one coming from Moto.
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I got my pre-order call to pickup my Xoom, I left work drove 40 miles to my best buy and when I got there only to find they sold mine. I was ready to rip this guys off, he called around and found one a few miles away now I have one. Love it but typing this is vary laggy
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I noticed the same thing when posting here on XDA from the Xoom. On another forum, it is fast. Gmail, is also very fast. Seems to be something with XDA and the Xoom browser.
AXN TV Channel is showing G Note advertisements incessantly.
Sammy wouldn't be spending that money unless initial sales figures and feedback were very positive.
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I don't know about other Asian countries, but here in India, they are advertising like crazy. Multiple TV channels, News Papers, Magazines. You name it. A few weeks after launch, they gave a full page ad in the news papers.
Also in Romania, a lot of TV commercials.
There's been **** all in the way of advertising in the UK!
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... and nothing here in the United States...
The very moment stock arrive, expect it to be sold out within hours. That's how crazy it is in Singapore.
I am in Hong Kong, at local tv channel doesnt have any tv commerical screening buy galaxy note is selling quite well here,
Its quite common to see a note on the street, even many chicks using it .
I also waited a week when I ordered mine,
The salesman told me note is quite a hit now, been out of stock few times already.
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Discovery Channel is advertising it here now.
Even Turkey has commercials running on all channels
Raghav1980 said:
I don't know about other Asian countries, but here in India, they are advertising like crazy. Multiple TV channels, News Papers, Magazines. You name it. A few weeks after launch, they gave a full page ad in the news papers.
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Crazy. Nuts. Gaga.
I noticed a couple of road-side billboards and a TV ad, nothing unusual for a new flagship product here.
Here in India,the owner of the shop from where I got my Note,daily sells atleast 2-3 Galaxy Notes..
Consider this its from a single shop and that too for a high end device,u can easily estimate that the Note is selling like hot cakes.
“Phone? Tablet? Feel Free, It’s Galaxy Note”
In france, this is the same advert the christmas day on TV and in Theater !
Prozac69 said:
There's been **** all in the way of advertising in the UK!
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Funny I have seen a few.
ZankerH said:
I noticed a couple of road-side billboards and a TV ad, nothing unusual for a new flagship product here.
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The SGSII retains the flagship crown seemingly.
NoRmAlY_CrAzY said:
Here in India,the owner of the shop from where I got my Note,daily sells atleast 2-3 Galaxy Notes..
Consider this its from a single shop and that too for a high end device,u can easily estimate that the Note is selling like hot cakes.
“Phone? Tablet? Feel Free, It’s Galaxy Note”
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It's out of stock at places. And the store keepers who usually offers some discount don't even talk of it when it comes to the note. It's like take it or leave it.
Selling pretty well here in Malaysia, and the salesperson told me that many also changes the color after a few days (from white to black or black to white).
Also, in the only satellite tv here, Note's ad is showing up like crazy...and I notice these few days SGSII ad also being aired..
It's always out of stock in the telco shops for Singapore. Got mine after waiting for a while!