Comments on: HTC Hero Unboxed, Fondled

By: Vormulac

Vormulac — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:15:46 +0000

The pronounciation as ‘haitch’ is not so much an English trait as a personal one, I have encountered that pronounciation from all nationalities around the UK; although in my experience ‘aitch’ is the predominant form. I can only assume that those who say ‘haitch’ are doing their bit for the environment and recycling all the letter ‘H’s that our cousins in the US insist on dropping from the pronounciation of the word ‘herb’.

As for the phone, if it had a bigger screen and better connectivity it would be a sure thing, as it is, though…

By: phill

phill — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:05:26 +0000

haych?

The British made the language, if you dont like it, go speak french

By: twrock

twrock — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:33:52 +0000

This whole “discussion” about how to pronounce the H in HTC, just goes to show how stupid the English language really is. If you pronounce it “aych” as many are arguing it should be, you don’t even make the most simple form of the sound. Instead, you are pronounce it in a consonant blend. Pronouncing it “hay” would make a lot more sense.

Why not just get a group of high-brow, snobbish people together and form a committee to put some controls on this language? Oh yeah, that’s what the French did, and we see how well that’s worked. ;-)

By: harry potter

harry potter — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:55:48 +0000

wow, once he realized he needed a sim card…he could have stopped the video, put everything back into the box and started over, but wait, maybe those rabbits were gone….he looked up and was thinking “I wanted to have a slap and a tickle, before me fag.but i dont want spend anymore goolies out of love for the queen..argh!!!”

By: Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:01:49 +0000

JL – I could not agree more. This tends to be an English trait rather the rest of the UK. I am Scottish but live near the Scotland/England border and get frustrated everyime I hear someone pronouce “H” the way they do. I used to work in a shop named H Samuels in Carlisle, everytime one of those idiots picked up the phone it would drive me crazy. You’d think they could speak their own language properly wouldn’t you? Rant over. Should I mention the phone? Nah

By: Flick

Flick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:33 +0000

Unfortunately as I’m at work at the moment, I can’t actually watch the video (corporate filters) but after reading through the comments, I can’t wait – not just because of the phone – but really because of the ‘aitch’ or ‘haitch’ debate.

Both pronunciations are found in the UK, but the former is more common imho.

Really want to know what the camera is like. All the other videos I’ve seen (inc. the official Orange UK one) just show the ’scroll’ functionality of the phone.

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By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:37:15 +0000

Did anybody notice it took more than 60 seconds to boot this phone. I don’t know what extent of customization HTC did to Android, but I hope their hardware can keep up with it….

By: david

david — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:58:38 +0000

hmm. . . .i really hope that at&t will put this on the lancaster WITHOUT adding any proprietary crap.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:09:41 +0000

Arrgh, much worse than his “Haytch” is him trying to film with camera in one hand and phone in the other, I just want to go in there and yank the camera out of his hands and onto a tripod. And him doing it in the car doesn’t help.

By: MR.E

MR.E — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:25:39 +0000

Very mature JJ, anyway it shouldn’t be pronounced “haitch”, but as noted frequently above – “aitch”. It’s not the English way it’s just that teachers over here won’t tell students how to pronounce words beyond primary school. I work in a school in London and the misuse of grammar pervades most of the students vernacular.

Back on topic: Just wished they’d added AMOLED screen. Maybe the next one.

By: jazd

jazd — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:11:17 +0000

Good grief who gives a flying monkey snot about how stuff is said, I thought this was a site to get info on phones not elocution lessons. The hero is a massive step in the right direction, hopefully they will improve sync features with windows and have blue tooth data transfer rather than just headset; then it would be a champion phone….. touch pro 2 with android hmmm now that would be interesting….

By: Sbevy

Sbevy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:56:41 +0000

@ JL It’s not BRITISH people who pronounce H like that, it’s ENGLISH people that do it.
Exactly the reason why I hate being called British!! (I’m Scottish by the way)

By: sonisoe

sonisoe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:17:46 +0000

this uk-based online store “superetrader” confirmed that this friday july 3, htc hero is gonna be available for sale….hopefully its true….and around the same time i think orange said they were gonna launch early july…followed by t-mobil uk mid july…

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:06:53 +0000

It’s only commoners who say haitch instead of aitch. Unfortunately they keep breeding, so it’ll only get worse.