It also offers Internet services including e-mail, instant messaging, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity.

Both 2D and 3D graphics were affected, with notable symptoms being poor video playback and severely low frame-rates when running 3D applications and games.

A community of enthusiast developers investigated the cause of the poor performance and concluded that DirectDraw and Direct3D applications were running in software rendering mode only.

[5] A website was also established to document and publicize the problem, to pressure HTC to provide a fix, and ultimately start a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer.

The driver does prove that the TyTN II based devices do in fact have functioning GPU accelerated hardware, and it is enabled.

[23][24] (Varies by operator) Users of this phone have successfully installed and used other GPS map software applications (such as ALK Technologies CoPilot Live 7, DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2009 Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, Fugawi, Garmin Mobile XT Archived 2008-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Google Maps Mobile, iNav iGuidance, Intrisync Destinator, Microsoft Live Search Mobile, TomTom, Tracky, and VisualGPS BeeLineGPS), which are either free or cost nothing beyond the original purchase price.