HTC said to have dropped plans for a 5-inch WP8 smartphone

17 December, 2012
HTC's CEO reportedly dropped the project on a WP8 smartphone with 5+ inch smartphone.

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  • Mikkoaus
  • wg7
  • 18 Dec 2012

I'm in good time both iOS and WP8 will catch up with the 1080p screen race....until then I'm enjoying my Nokia Lumia 920, it's screen is more then good enough, and besides I cannot adopt Android as its not for me....again it's each to their own, I'm a iOS and WP8 fan....

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    • Anonymous
    • 2Gm
    • 18 Dec 2012

    Bummer cause was really hoping for some top notch windows phones to finally emerge. Windows phone 8 has been a bit of a disappointment so far.

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      • pJm
      • 18 Dec 2012

      lol, 18 Dec 2012from wat u said i understood only two things .. android was... moreman iOS and wp are laggy to. they jsut hide it behind fancy animations and waiting screens. iOS hides the crashes. it just goes back to the home screen. it' considered that users wont be able to distinguish between a crash and an accidentla press of the home button. and WP hides it's lag in all the swapping page effects.
      ask anyone with a iphoen about lag after installing 5-6 apps minimum and they will admit it. every OS ever creted lags. and the fact that peole say andoid is laggy shows how stupid they are. android , ios and wp are not laggy. simbyan is laggy. nwo thats laggy. takes 1-2 secodns just ot take any command. now android and ios and wp are absolutely lag free as concerne with the hardware thay use. unless yo uwant to pay for a quantum computer inside a phone then you will always have lag, even if it's a few ms, not seconds like simbyan.

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        • Carol
        • L7e
        • 18 Dec 2012

        AnonD-79010, 17 Dec 2012For your information, I need a 5" smart phone. And by ... moreOh, sory, i forgot that smartphines are for playng games and waching pron movies. My appologiez! And i wander why that Scrap is selling. With this type of costumers, i should never wonder:-j..

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          • Anonymous
          • mjP
          • 18 Dec 2012

          AnonD-77544, 18 Dec 2012welcome to the droid camp brotherI now pronounce you...

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            • the_seba
            • 3QY
            • 18 Dec 2012

            How could everyone at Microsoft forget about 1080p screen resolution? Microsoft is working real hard to make Windows Phone less attractive.

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              • AnonD-77544
              • sSK
              • 18 Dec 2012

              so no wp8 for me!, 18 Dec 2012i was waiting for a wp8 smartphone with a 1080p screen and ... morewelcome to the droid camp brother

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                • AnonD-77544
                • sSK
                • 18 Dec 2012

                AnonD-58527, 18 Dec 2012HTC is the best.And great news They could out sell Samsung... moreOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! U just said that htc can out sell samsung if it wants!!!!!!!!!

                My friend r u drunk??????????
                coz ur posts say that u r drunk.....

                htc's current condition is like titanic at the point of sinking...... it is a great and glorious company but now its time is over it needs to do much much much harder than it is doing to even come close to samsung

                btw ur sense of humour is pretty good(and pretty not)
                this could be the joke of the month....lol...... not the joke of the year, coz the joke of the year would be from an apple supporter(no hard feelings)

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                  • kAm
                  • 18 Dec 2012

                  AnonD-79514, 17 Dec 2012android since froyo had far better features and support and... morefrom wat u said i understood only two things .. android was crap before froyo ... well said fandroid.
                  and number two its smooth "especially" after jelly bean ... so till ICS it was indeed laggy .... now its been agreed by fandroid itself ..wat else we need ... and now u made me laugh like hell .. joke of the year.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 9BH
                    • 18 Dec 2012

                    Good decision, windows phone is clear flop, it doesnt which brand the are belong, like samsung, nokia, htc, lg all of them making wp but no ones phones get a sucees. Its not brands fault, windows gone kill them. Good job htc avoid windows

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                      • YbM
                      • 18 Dec 2012

                      wp dont even have apps... no need for 5in screen...

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                        • Ekr
                        • 9BH
                        • 18 Dec 2012

                        Windows is flop, and as compare to android, in any aspect, whether its price, spec, fatures, android is millions times better. Htc realize that its better to put efforts, skills on android rather than flop windows, and make another flop divice, All n all good decision.

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                          • AnonD-39892
                          • SHp
                          • 18 Dec 2012

                          HTC trying android tactics for wp... What a lame step to save their sinking ship.

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                            • AnonD-77443
                            • 2G5
                            • 18 Dec 2012

                            AnonD-58527, 18 Dec 2012HTC is the best.And great news They could out sell Samsung... moreAre you saying they would rather sell good devices instead of making money??? Back to the wacky tabacky!

                            Also, the SG Note 2 has one of the best build qualities around.

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                              • archer
                              • XMi
                              • 18 Dec 2012

                              so it's clear that WP8 has serious limitation.
                              it probably will be fixed by wp9.

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                                • AnonD-56684
                                • GRP
                                • 18 Dec 2012

                                MeeGo Takeover, 18 Dec 2012You are soo right. It was Smooth Free because Smoothness i... moreU can't say it's all vanished after the jb update.optimus g with ICS is equally smooth(it's infact a bit faster)than nexus 4 with both sharing the same hardware.

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                                  • AnonD-56684
                                  • rJJ
                                  • 18 Dec 2012

                                  MS would've been a bit more farsighted and included 1080p support as well in wp 8 not necessarily to make a device in 2012 itself but for futureproofing like they did with the number of cores supported(i think it's 64).
                                  Yes we know that the diffrence to naked eye is barely visible(720p vs 1080p displays) but who's gonna tell that to today's specs hungry market.

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                                    • iSamsung Fan
                                    • ane
                                    • 18 Dec 2012

                                    because htc doesnt want to give 6$ to 8$ to crapple

                                    people loose interest to htc because of crapple

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                                      • Tushar
                                      • uvh
                                      • 18 Dec 2012

                                      [deleted post]Hey troll. Why are u giving the definition of android here? WP is the most smooth and stable OS in the market now. Even gsmareana admit it.. Poor guy..

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                                        • MeeGo Takeover
                                        • jxx
                                        • 18 Dec 2012

                                        AnonD-79514, 17 Dec 2012android since froyo had far better features and support and... moreYou are soo right. It was Smooth Free because Smoothness is the one thing Android left out until Jellybean. Haters gon Hate.