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Yep! That's the one.

• evilduck 14y ago
  Yeah, my father-in-law who was a die hard Sprint customer had it. It was definitely being pushed hard as Sprint's iPhone equivalent, even if Samsung wasn't marketing it directly as such. Before that, Sprint was laughably selling the HTC Touch with WinMo6.5 and some crappy skin as their iPhone equivalent. Maybe it's just hindsight bias, but as I recall, hardware manufacturers didn't seem to do nearly as much direct brand marketing before the iPhone as they do now.
  • steele 14y ago
    Speaking of hindsight bias, IMHO,the HTC Touch & WinMo 5/6.5 made for a better "smartphone" than its contemporary iPhone. Despite it's attempt at touch/tap (had a stylus), it was pretty fantastic. WinMo had applications, easy syncing, file system access, an active developer/hacker community, Exchange support, etc. The exchange support alone made it far more valuable to me than the iPhone. Where it lacked was polish of its multimedia features the market expects today as well as a modern-ish browser. Tethering one on of those things w/ the EV-DO rev A network was a pretty great tinkerers capability -- well over a year before iPhone had 3G. FWIW, the Touch was a well-executed device and the xda community took the Vogue pretty far.
    • evilduck 14y ago
      I actually had the HTC Touch (I had a $30/mo unlimited SERO plan, couldn't complain). It was a rock solid device (I even had Android flashed on it and in many ways it outperformed my "legit Android" Samsung Moment). WinMo6.5 was also a fine competitor in the PalmOS era, but everyone except AT&T tried really hard to sell skinned WinMo6.5 devices as touch friendly interfaces even sans-stylus in response to the iPhone. That fell flat on it's face once you tried to use any non-superficial feature on WinMo6. Dial a number? Sure, use your fingers. Need to enter a new contact? Bust out that stylus.