Loading ...Looks like HTC have just lost a customer: The Boy Genius has thrown in the towel and decided he can’t be bothered waiting for the Shift UMPC, which HTC promised had launched in the UK on the Orange network and in Spain on the Telefonica network back on February 11th. Unfortunately, it turns out that you can’t get a Shift for love nor money; as TBG puts it, “Not in stock, not available for order, not in stores, not in anyone’s hands — nothing.”
A quick check of the sites and yes, there’s not even an entry for the Shift in the “upcoming” handsets section. Now normally this wouldn’t be too surprising a situation - mobile phones (and laptops and cars and…) are often delayed - but HTC have been promising the Shift for so long that it’s likely TBG won’t be the only potential buyer deciding to spend their money elsewhere.
What do you think, are you still bothered about the HTC Shift? Let us know in the comments.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Bothered about the Shift? Not sure yet, I bought an OQO E2 which I’m extremely impressed with. It has a really small form factor (smaller than Shift) and performs well, I don’t need to charge it all the time. I can happily browse the web for a few hours or read books etc. (main use!)
The Shift is somewhat of a shady product, the only time I have seen this working is in Hugo Ortega’s review and on UMPC Portal. If I had have seen these two ‘working’ models I would now be thinking this is a purely concept device!
The one advantage of it being on sale in Orange stores next month (year/millenium!) is that we can now see this device and play with it, potentially.
I wonder how Orange are going to market this? I would have thought after all the bad press of this device they need something pretty special to take it off the shelves…
James.