Comments on: HTC Touch HD with US 3G Support? Not so fast.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:21:34 +0000

HTC Engineers they don’t have the vision to realize that phones travel to different countries. or maybe someone transfers to us for limited time and wants to use the 3G service. what do you expect from engineering team that has been looking 3 years at Iphone and cant even copy something close to it.
you expect them to see further ahead and design the phone that would work everywhere. they only care for their new product. you want a company to care for customers and upgrade them as they go, to say thanks to people support them. you buy apple product. they make money with new product and don’t forget their customer base. dont expect that from HTC

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By: Roger L. Cauvin

Roger L. Cauvin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:18:44 +0000

That reason doesn’t cut it. HTC made the decision not to make a version for the US many months ago. They could have brought it to the US market much sooner had they simply made the decision to do so.

So the question remains: why didn’t they originally decide to make a version of the Touch HD for the US market?

By: Greg Kumparak

Greg Kumparak — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:42:16 +0000

Probably won’t ever work, unfortunately. You would need both 1700mhz (for incoming data) and 2100mhz (for outgoing data) for it to work. Most European 3G networks that run on the 2100mhz band only use the one.

By: Greg Kumparak

Greg Kumparak — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:36:00 +0000

The reasoning was put out there right off the bat.

From the original announcement:

“sad news, US. we looked into it- by the time we could bring Touch HD to the states, it would be old news. we do have other cool stuff coming”

By: David E

David E — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:21:00 +0000

I purchased a imported unit in Chicago at Overseas Electronics last Wednesday. I have T-Mobile and it works great. I can bluetooth tether to a HTC Shift, MacBook Pro, and two Sony Vaios. It was so easy to set up. I acually bought it as a alternative to one of those little Sony USB GSM modems. The thing I’m looking into is if this phone is a 3G phone. T-Mobile has 3G in Chicago and they say my data plan includes 3G service but I only get the Big E.

By: Roger L. Cauvin

Roger L. Cauvin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:12:15 +0000

What I’d like to know is “Why?” It seems HTC has been asked to comment on various questions. But has anyone asked them why they won’t make a version of the touch HD for the US?

By: Eli

Eli — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:35:47 +0000

So the Touch HD might do 2100Mhz. I believe that T-mobile operates on this frequency. Maybe this bad boy will work on T-Mobile in the US. Even better would be if Android gets ported to this phone as well.