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so we've noticed that a lot of the newer devices are going away from like the touch pro two are going away from the hardware keys do you think that that's going to be going away from hardware case um on the front facing device like in terms of like a directional pad and whatnot okay so we did eliminate the navigation but we so did keep the important hardware keys and the reason we eliminated the navigation was because we think that we have really good answer just in terms of finger creminis on the screen when you have obviously no touchscreen than you need navigation but when everything can be done with your finger it really becomes like this whole duel know thing that it actually it provides like this extra decision time oh do i touch the screen or do I use in navigation like that kind of thing so do you really need that I personally don't think you do yeah yeah I mean with there's still the important things you need right you need Hardware cage for legs have been that kind of thing because they need to be available to you as HTC ever considered selling their touchflo 3d to third party companies I don't know but why don't you tell me like why why do you think we should do that to have more of a uniform platform or around the windows mobile well so touchflo 3d is something that we develop to be like our advantage it's unique HTC identifier so if we start selling that to other companies and what makes HTC unique are there any works for a front facing Courtney keyboard phone with a touchscreen on like the samsung epix or the trio's that could be something that we could look into in the future we haven't said will never do all the phone like that but we have it we definitely haven't like announced a phone like that or done anything to that sort has HTC ever considered building their own operating system we always investigate like what's going to be best for like our you know our customers and not just like our current customers but what's going to help us expand we definitely don't have our own operating system yet but that doesn't mean that we don't investigate it that we don't try it and who knows what's going to happen in the future like if we find the right thing then it's possible that we could totally do that do you think that HTC will be moving on to a better chip sense or will they say with a Qualcomm like that let's say like the the NVIDIA Tegra or the saturation oh well I mean so some platforms may require us to use like iron ships that's like that and you know there definitely are some phones that may require us to go to higher and chipsets like that does it make sense to put a Tegra on something you know like a snap no but you know as higher end phones become higher and higher end we probably are going to have to go up along with that but it's just going to have to be appropriate on a phone by phone basis it's unlikely that you would see us move like our entire line to you no one anything you know just like you I don't think you'll see us move our entire line 210 us I don't think you'll see us with our entire line to you know like a 14 in fact I don't think you're going to see is what very entire mind Oh one single chick and on that note do you think that HTC will be incorporating graphics acceleration on some upon the onto their newer devices because I know that like the Titan to had issues with graphics well yeah what's so I hope Qualcomm I think I mean when when you take a look at the graphics performance of say the touch HD or you know the this year's bones the diamond to you in pro 2 compared to our older phones that it's definitely more impressive and so there may be you know we try to optimize our software so that the graphics are as good as possible whether we use hardware graphics acceleration in the future or not is going to be something again that's up to the is it appropriate for the phone you know is is this thick type of foam that we think needs hardware graphics acceleration as opposed to what we've been able to do with you know optimized software and on that note do you think that HTC will be developing newer battery technologies to help save and conserve power we don't develop batteries we develop cell phones so we still have to buy batteries okay so if I'm finally free parking exactly just like almost everybody else um you know a so as battery technology moves along we absolutely are there you know we have a team dedicated to researching basically the cutting edge of technology that's available for us to integrate into our phones so if new batteries technology battery technologies come along will absolutely be there investigating them and you know as soon as we think that they're right and fit our costs and everything like that I'm sure that we'd be on it but we don't develop batteries okay do you think that HTC will ever come up with another flip phone like the Star Trek I would say this look at this smartphone market or even the feature phone market today you don't see many flip phones do you know but do you think that H do you think that the smaller form factors are going away and that the larger devices are coming back into play that certainly seems to be the trend across like you know the entire market and I don't think that HTC would want to develop the phone that very few people want to buy you know you we want to appeal to enough people to make it with us manufacturing the phone and also something that the carriers want to buy from us don't forget that all of our phones are generally sold through carriers with carrier partners which means that they have to be interested in buying it and when you look at the vast majority of phone static carriers you're selling these days they're not the you know old flip phone Paramore and so to to go that route may not at least at this point of time may not be the most appropriate thing I don't think I don't think that that's what the public is looking towards is a trend okay so some of some questions I have so when do you think that the touch pro 2 will be available in the United States under a current carrier I think we're looking at very soon okay we've uh we've always said that it would be in the second half and I think a lot of carriers are excited to get it out the door so I think it should be soon do you think that um it'll go along with AT&T t-mobile Verizon and Sprint I can't comment I guess I better check amount up will HTC be manufacturing the zune HD for Microsoft HTC does not manufacture any devices for other companies outside of a few navigation devices at this point in time what about sony ericsson with the xperia that was something that we did but i don't believe that we are manufacturing any further devices forth and i don't think so and one final question which device to use on a daily the hero I have mine this is mine customized for me oh wow so that's a that's the 1 i've been using and rocking out on a daily basis while it was really thin I didn't realize help it oh yeah see it when you put it against like all the nice thin snap platform phonies yeah it doesn't look that big does it oh I think that's definitely one of the things a lot of people thought that we were trying to hide a thickness with it it's just not there but in I i would say that so I was always an insane gmail addict and which is why hero has been like the best fun for me because now i get my work mail and my gmail on the same phone and i don't have to worry about like of like a half-baked solution yeah for either you know having a gmail with full labels and everything and then having our exchange client where I still get like all my exchange calendars and everything and being able to flag exchange emails I don't know about you are you like a flagger start kind of guy um sometimes if I if I think it's really important yeah see like that that is I'm not a subscriber to anything getting things done in time I systems or anything like that but i will say the flagging and starting is like the only the only way that I kind of emulate that like I'm not an inbox zero guy my inbox 5000 kind of go at it is mmm but uh but I definitely like everything is kept like flex if flag der start and you know being able to just check my starred email or just check my flag females were added fiber stars like super important to me because otherwise like otherwise I just never been do you think that carriers in the United State start utilizing the front-facing camera over there data network like in europe i can almost like a video call yeah you know i would say hey that almost nobody makes video calls if you look at the the actual usage rate on video calls on networks around the world uh-huh it's pretty love it's pretty small yeah so I mean now granted they're you know they're definitely or some East case with cases for it but uh so AT&T has video sharing right yes their biggest sharing but it's pretty much all you can do is record something and then send it I thought mms it doesn't actually record live and that they have a live video they had true video share right which which is a one-way video call to my knowledge I tried using out my phone other devices and I hoping able to afford because it that well that may be a testament to you I think you know I think it's a there may be a future for that but in the in the near term I don't think anybody has come up with the really with enough like positive response on it for us to see a lot of development on that in the US maybe it's possible when the bulk of carriers switched to LTE and I just started piecing that unified technology we might maybe see something like that because it'll be easier to do cross network stuff but right now you're pretty limited to like one network and then tulman do you think that sprint will kind of go to the y maximan like eighteen t and other companies LTE um I I mean I only know what they've announced well so if you look at it almost well whatever ATT and Verizon have been vocal about LTE t-mobile because of their of you know their international cause have said things about a LTE but haven't been like as quite as vocal about it and sprint has talked a lot about why max but not said anything about whether that's the only technology that they expect to use so I think that we'll have to see I'm which which Annette you know which technology which network everybody feels that they're going to they're going to bet on you know it's possible that if you know everybody in the whole world chooses healthy except for a couple of carriers that those carriers will eventually move to it but we'll have to see because who knows right now LT sounds really great but you know they're there it's still at that sort of early why next stage like if you can remember back to them when like there was this wimax and they like had all agreed in on the basics yeah but nobody could agree on whether they would use like 80 to dot 16 a b c d e f g you know whatever and and so we we got a lot of if you look at all the early one max networks right they're all totally incompatible exact gray um and it took a while of working through that before we got to compatible in wimax networks and it looks like right now we're at that same stage with LTE okay where everybody's decided what the LTE technology is but now like you know another all you know there's debates over which voice compression technology or which you know what like you see all kinds of differences going on so it's still going to be a little while I think before we we see like something for everybody to settle on but that time you know the general that you'll see people's side on the standard and whether that standard is wimax or LTE or you know some future technology will be up to each curve here we have this is the touch pro two so I'm now have you what have you gotten a chance to use or not use yet I don't know have you gotten a chance to see any of these no all right or so and then these are what will call the staff platform so we've got the ozone the snap from the dash 3g all of which you can see are very similar but you know again this goes back to what i was saying about you know us having it like working with carriers having a history with carriers even though all these are based on like the same platform similar chips that's everything form factor or lay how all that stuff is slightly different from the device to device because that's what they carrier bunted in order to customize their their experience let's see yeah some of these have a church some of them I'm not really sure I grabbed him l as I was running oh that's cool looks like all dying to go ahead that's what happens when they sit in a suitcase for email years years huh hey where'd you delight far far away my friend there's a reason that we only let the press into the very front of ever every we have time to tackle he won't get to the new stuff you know I think than that like I think you should definitely this one has a full charge because i know i just charged it up i would invite you to take a little spin funerals i think that uh it now has done plenty of reasons pretty right now but we're happy to turn what I let you take a spin through it and check it out see what what we've done you know that sort of thing you can kind of I think maybe you know the more you the more you get to see what we have developed tomorrow I think you can almost start answering questions about the products for us in terms of like where we might be going or you know what we see as as important that's this thing