We have an email from a Norwegian reader, reporting that the HTC Desire HD sold in the region is missing one entire letter from the phone’s keyboard – resulting in rather obvious typing and communication difficulties.
Here’s our Norwegian correspondent Jostein with the latest on the situation:
I recently purchased the HTC Desire HD and quickly discovered that the Norwegian letter “Ø” is non-existent the messaging application, neither with the onboard keyboard or the downloaded ‘Scandinavian keyboard’ app from the Android Market. It, however, works perfect in the recipient field, in the mail application and web browser. I asked HTC about it, and it confirmed the problem:
“This is a known problem, and we’re working on it. Currently there is no fix if it does not help to use the keyboard from the Scandinavian market … I would expect that it is an official solution soon, but I have no information on when it will come when there is a relatively new problem.”
Or perhaps HTC is simply trying to encourage new forms of “text speak” by gradually eliminating letters?
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Bingo Johnny
/ November 4, 2010This was fixed in the second OTA-update (at least on my HD) – 1.32.405.6.
Trilby
/ November 4, 2010Just use an “O”, who’s going to notice the difference?
word
/ November 6, 2010Hm, why should some users have to replace one letter with another? O and Ø represent different sounds. If you wouldn’t be able to write, say, the letter R and someone would tell you to simply use P instead, since P and R look almost the same, would you be happy with that “solution”?
Irvdel
/ November 4, 2010Compare with Esperanto, waiting almost two years and still no sign of a fix http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list (issue 1730)
Kjell
/ November 10, 2010Got the same problem. Just wrote a friend a message, I was supposed to use quite a few Øs, but that was not possible. I just went from an Iphone to an HTC, while my collegaues still have their iPhones. I can´t imagine how much they will mock me if i tell them I cant´t write Ø on my HTC. Guess i´ll get at lot of messages saying: Hi Kjell, ØØØØØØØØØØØØØØØØØØØØ -sent from my iPhone…
KJELL ØØØØØØØØØØØø
/ December 10, 2010Shit is hilarious! I live in Norway, HTC Desire HD costs MUCH money here compared to $400 in other countries. I don’t see such a big deal out of “ø” anyway.
God, I don’t mock my friends, no matter how stupid they are, one of them just said in English class when teacher asked him : “How many frogs are there?” and he answered “Sex”. Because “seks” means “six”. We rofled in our copters.
Tolper
/ December 10, 2010Harsh Norwegian winter starting to get to you already?