Following the less-than-perfect news about the HTC Shift battery life and WM6, sorry, Snap-Vue component we set up a poll to find out how it affected potential customers choices. The HTC Shift was (and according to the last weeks statistics) still is the most popular ultra mobile PC on UMPCPortal and it represents a design that many would regard as ideal but would customers still be interested in it if it had 2 hours battery life.
The answer is, unsurprisingly, NO. 20 people have canceled their order, an amazing 54% of people considering a purchase, took it off the top of their list and, lets spin the stats a little here, only 4% of potential customers are ready to order based on the current specifications.
The total value of potential customer orders in that poll was an amazing quarter of a million dollars! HTC, you really have to work on the battery life before release. My recommendation is that you release a statement ASAP otherwise those customers will be placing orders for other devices.
