So you might have seen a few headlines out of the HTC Frequencies thing (I'm at it here in Seattle) regarding battery capacity (and thus size) versus consumers' desire for thin phones.
Don't read too much into it.
They're referring to some internal polling they did. But the message got taken a little out of context (that happens even when we're all in a room together like this). Nobody's "shaved" batteries to get them into phones.
And we have no idea how the question was presented. "Would you rather have a larger phone with better battery life, or a thinner phone with not as much battery life." Which would you pick? Never mind that even the thin/less answer might well still end up with a perfectly awesome phone. (O hai HTC One X.)
It's easy to think of the Droid RAZR MAXX versus the HTC One X when you're talking about this. But it's not a fair comparison. They're not the same phone.
Also, we don't know when that polling was done. And that makes a difference.
Don't read too much into it.
They're referring to some internal polling they did. But the message got taken a little out of context (that happens even when we're all in a room together like this). Nobody's "shaved" batteries to get them into phones.
And we have no idea how the question was presented. "Would you rather have a larger phone with better battery life, or a thinner phone with not as much battery life." Which would you pick? Never mind that even the thin/less answer might well still end up with a perfectly awesome phone. (O hai HTC One X.)
It's easy to think of the Droid RAZR MAXX versus the HTC One X when you're talking about this. But it's not a fair comparison. They're not the same phone.
Also, we don't know when that polling was done. And that makes a difference.