Comments on: HTC M7 saying goodbye to megapixels, hello to Ultrapixels? http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/ Fri, 24 May 2013 01:19:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1313355 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:15:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1313355 Having done business with HTC and T-Mobile as an ISV, I can say that the carriers are absolutely their customer here in the US. Phone manufacturers aren’t going to be the ones to turn that around.

Why are the big carriers still gaining customers? Why are people not flocking in droves to T-Mobile or MVNO’s?

The problem for the OEM is that proprietary network providers keep growing. It is those proprietary network providers that are purchasing devices from the OEM. Convince your friends and neighbors, to convince their friends and neighbors, to support devices with open standards that you can take from network to network at a month-to-month rate.

If all carriers played by that rule, the carrier with the best bang for the buck would have the highest number of subscribers, until someone else came out with a better deal. It would be a liberated free market.

The only drawback would be that cellular technology growth might slowdown. If many providers offered the same plans at the same rate, equally providing the best value, no single company alone may be able to take the risk to upgrade their networks. You may then require the FCC to enforce Congressional legislation to sunset existing network infrastructure and to replace it with v.next on a timetable, like EPA ratings on automobiles or digital TV broadcasts.

]]> By: Rann Xeroxx http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1312208 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:02:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1312208 I agree with Tim 100%

]]> By: marcellenormand http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1309989 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:05:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1309989 Is no one else seeing a 3D camera here!?

]]> By: Dracula http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1308383 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:35:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1308383 Agree with Val. Seriously HTC, get your act together! Had to ditch you guys for a S3 just because of SD cards and removable battery. The One X is an overall better design, but without the basics its useless.

HTC, please think about who the audience is and design the product for them. Majority of Android users love their freedom, and thats why they select the OS platform in the first place, taking away flexibility doesn’t align with the philosophy. Give us back the control and we will be back :-)

cheers!

]]> By: Timothy Poplaski http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1308381 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:29:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1308381 If HTC really wants to stop losing market share, might I suggest five things?

1) Give a damn about customer service, and realize that consumers, not carriers, really are your customers.
2) Updates, or at least provider driver support to the Dev community so THEY can provide updates. What early adopters love, early adopters recommend. Embrace XDA!
3) No more sealed batteries
4) MicroSD card support

And if they want to really be brave, 5) a phone that’s designed to be docked, cased, and otherwise accessorized… and then release said docks, cases, and accessories at REASONABLE PRICE POINTS!

Sure, a super high quality instant-on camera that always takes PERFECT shots would be great…. but I’ll give any of the above priority over it when I next buy a phone or tablet.

]]> By: Johny Doe http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1307972 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:48:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1307972 If anyone has shot with a Sigma they know the abilities of a Fovean sensor. I cant wait to see color saturation and low light low noise that will come out of this camera.

]]> By: Pete http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1307866 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:31:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1307866 I like how they pretend that this is something new. Before CMOS allowed sensor densities to get to the point where it didn’t matter anymore, having 3 CCD’s in your camcorder was the only way to get decent color in a handheld.

]]> By: Val http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1307766 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:22:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1307766 As it seems the M7 will not have the SD card slot again. Even though all of this technology is great but seriously, I’ll probably then wait for Samsung, the SD Card is just a deal breaker now, I have the HTC One X and not having the SD Card slot is just not working out. Damn HTC, why you no listen to your customers? haha.

]]> By: jillxz http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1307763 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:11:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1307763 I would love to see HTC back on top. Give Samsung some good competition.

]]> By: Steve Litchfield http://gigaom.com/2013/02/04/htc-m7-saying-goodbye-to-megapixels-hello-to-ultrapixels/#comment-1307751 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:30:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=607016#comment-1307751 That doesn’t make much sense, I think. How would light get efficiently to the sensors behind? FAR better to go down Nokia’s PureView route (as on the Nokia 808) and simply have a bigger sensor IMHO. 8-)

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