I am very confused reading all the foroums, both Kaiser and Cruise.
I really dont know which one to buy.
My only concern for Kaiser is its weight and thickness. I dont mind the lack of FM radio on Kaiser. But the keyboard is it really handy.
On the other hand can you really type on cruise without the keyboard?
Is there any difference on the screen. I mean, is the Screen of the Cruise more touch sensitive? Is the Cruise more responsive to finger tapping?
Also, Is there any difference using them in direct sunlight?
Apart from the keyborad and FM radio are there any other significant differences? The Cube u can also have on Kaiser.
Please advise
Thanks
I am a proud owner of TC. It is my first WM phone and if you ask me, go for TC. You can read the screens very clearly in deep sun shine, GPS is good. One big question is virtual KB or hard KB. I would say it would take couple of days to get used to virtual KB. After that it is cool. For me weight is a big factor.
Few things which i noted is the camera functioanlity. Its bit slow. Picture quality with no light just OK. But i dont use camera for taking pictures.
All in All I would say go for TC, it is handy, more powerful device than Kaiser...
I have neither but from what I want/need the Polaris is the one for me because:
1. I don't type more than 5 sms/emails a day on average and there are plenty of good on screen keyboards to choose from.
2. The touchflo on kaiser is software only whilst it's hardware on the Polaris like the original Touch (Elf).
3. Smaller and more pocket friendly.
4. Less professional looking or more stylish.
5. Screen is good under sunlight.
So in a nutshell, if you don't type much and want to use your fingers mainly with the device go for the Polaris.
it may just be me but i find typing using phonepad when it comes to sms's
alot easier then the still kinda tiny keyboard of the pdas well with keyboard
guess a touch dual with t9 would be even faster but then i dont type that many
sms's a day
and i like the specs of tc more then nike
and i like the size of tc better then i like kaiser
I had a Kaiser and am waiting for my TC. The Kaiser is a very good device. For me the weight was just too much to handle.
Well, for what it's worth, personally I really like the HTC keyboard with xt9. I can type much faster on it that most of the other onscreen keyboard I've tried. And for the first time in my life it actually felt really good (the typing) and getting near the experience of using a hardware keyboard.
Ofcourse it's still typing on a touch screen with no key feedback, but it does that very well. Needs a little bit of getting used to, but I type quite some text messages with it now. It's much much better than the standard keyboard that comes with WM, those small keys were just awkward even with a stylus.
Also the screen is quite good on the Cruise. Very sensitive as well (in a positive way!). Also looks good in sunlight. But the device gets fingerprints quite fast, but that is to be expected and no big deal. Could make it a little bit harder to see in direct sunlight, but a fast wipe with a cloth fixes that.
Also the weight is not that much at all. I expected the device to be more heavy and was surprised it was this light.
Hope this helps a bit . But don't forget, I'm biased! I already have a Cruise
Has anyone found any side-by-side photos of the kaiser and polaris?
'' The touchflo on kaiser is software only whilst it's hardware on the Polaris like the original Touch (Elf).''
Is it really a hardware difference of is it just a software???/
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'' The touchflo on kaiser is software only whilst it's hardware on the Polaris like the original Touch (Elf).''
Is it really a hardware difference of is it just a software???/
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It's mainly a software issue. The only hardware difference is the type of the screen surface.
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Has anyone found any side-by-side photos of the kaiser and polaris?
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perfect! thanks what about depth-wise?
Had to add my two cents.
I found that the Kraiser is heavier than my 8525 but that also brings a sense of strudiness. I felt like i could drop the kaiser and not break it. I am in the same boat of chosing between either device. I also found that i can type fairly quickly with touchpal. Has anyone used it on teh Cruise. The only issue i have with it on my current device is the fact the the borders on teh phone get in the way of finger swiping. On the cruise the bezel is level with the screen right? its all a toss up. Can you live without a keyboard. Other than that i havent touched a cruise.
Does anyone know of a US availblty or carrier?
http://www.mobileplanet.com/p.aspx?i=159609
going to go ahead and add to my favs
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A friend at work recently bought this phone - manual is in chinese and it claims to be a 'Dopod 818'. It runs WM5 no problem, has a camera, bluetooth but no wifi. The 'settings' page shows the OS number as 5.1.476 with an XScale PXA270 312MHz cpu
But what is it? I can't find a reference to it anywhere on the web, least of all Dopod/HTC's website. Any ideas? I'm leaning towards it being some sort of chinese copy with pirated WM5 on...
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818?
http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-magician-en.shtml
Nope, that's not a HTC Magician (aka 818)
Did you says it RUNS WM5? Or is it a simple Chinese knockoff?
hmmm...
Magician has 416mhz.
It definitely runs WM5 (even in English). CPU is 312MHz as stated. I don't think its a magician, as it has the numerical keypad not just arrow keys
It is VERY interesting. Having a XScale PXA270 312MHz CPU doesn't really help as it seems tons of phone are using it. One of the unique perspective of this phone is the keyboard/pad. As far as I know, there isn't any WM5 phone does that. And, from what it seems, it also a touchscreen.
AND.. VERY VERY interestingly, if you look at the bottom of the screen, you get all these print-on icons on the screen, which you usually gets with cheap knock-offs, which runs Linux. You pretty sure it is the real WM5? Why don't you test those lower buttons and see if they are working 'icons' or not.
If they work, and you can configure it in the Settings -> Buttons. I have no ideas then. However, if these buttons are not functional and/or they are not configurable in the Settings -> Buttons, chances are, the phone is originally done for other OS and have been hacked someway to run WM5.
Also, the 'Designed for' sticker doesn't look authentic to me too.. anyone with this sticker to confirm. Ironically, my Wizard doesn't have a sticker.. no wonder WM5 suxs in my case
It is VERY interesting. Having a XScale PXA270 312MHz CPU doesn't really help as it seems tons of phone are using it. One of the unique perspective of this phone is the keyboard/pad. As far as I know, there isn't any WM5 phone does that. And, from what it seems, it also a touchscreen.
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Asus P525, Mio A702.
AND.. VERY VERY interestingly, if you look at the bottom of the screen, you get all these print-on icons on the screen, which you usually gets with cheap knock-offs, which runs Linux. You pretty sure it is the real WM5? Why don't you test those lower buttons and see if they are working 'icons' or not.
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Actually like the iPhone rip-off.
definitely it is not dopod 818, Indeed that is not a dopod at all. Made in China!!! Currently you can even get a copy Iphone
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... if you look at the bottom of the screen, you get all these print-on icons on the screen, which you usually gets with cheap knock-offs, which runs Linux. You pretty sure it is the real WM5? Why don't you test those lower buttons and see if they are working 'icons' or not.
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The icons all definitely work - and it's definitely running the real deal WM5.
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If they work, and you can configure it in the Settings -> Buttons. I have no ideas then. However, if these buttons are not functional and/or they are not configurable in the Settings -> Buttons, chances are, the phone is originally done for other OS and have been hacked someway to run WM5.
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Interesting .. I couldn't find the 'buttons' section in the settings.
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Also, the 'Designed for' sticker doesn't look authentic to me too.. anyone with this sticker to confirm. Ironically, my Wizard doesn't have a sticker.. no wonder WM5 suxs in my case
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I agree, the sticker looks a little suspect. What makes me also think its a knockoff (albeit good one) is the manual looks very generic (not a nice shiny front with colour picture like my Blue Angel), and the phone has a 1gb mini SD card inside which has a metric crapload of games on - I suspect they are pirated.
Bizarre!
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Interesting .. I couldn't find the 'buttons' section in the settings.
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"Start -> Settings -> Buttons" is missing... hmmm.. interesting.
rossocorsa said:
I agree, the sticker looks a little suspect. What makes me also think its a knockoff (albeit good one) is the manual looks very generic (not a nice shiny front with colour picture like my Blue Angel), and the phone has a 1gb mini SD card inside which has a metric crapload of games on - I suspect they are pirated.
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Well, if you don't mind, you can open the battery and see what information you can find there.. and you can see if you can get anything from its IMEI. I think there are database in the net to check your maker based on the IMEI. I can't rememeber where I found this one before.
it look like a device running windows ce (which could explain the 5.1 thing)
what would be the test would be to install a cab file and see if it installs and works...
I've posted a thread about installing standard on a ppc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2308611#post2308611
Its been proven that you can install professional on a smartphone. I was wondering if you could do it the other way around.
Ivan, Itje, Papamopps, ttran, other cooks- any ideas?
you would obviously be missing the touchscreen, so what;s the point?
if your touchscreen is broken, you can't get past the alignment screen
but usually the touchscreen gets broken together with the screen itself, so you'd need a repair anyway.
Plus I think that wm6 prof's touchscreen ability really adds a lot of extra usability, so i would always get it repaired.
anyway, i was asking what is the point of trying to get prof on a wm6 standard device? you would miss the touchscreen so you are missing out on a lot of functionality, plus a lot of programs are completely not designed to not use the screen, thus leading to excessive key presses
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but usually the touchscreen gets broken together with the screen itself, so you'd need a repair anyway.
Plus I think that wm6 prof's touchscreen ability really adds a lot of extra usability, so i would always get it repaired.
anyway, i was asking what is the point of trying to get prof on a wm6 standard device? you would miss the touchscreen so you are missing out on a lot of functionality, plus a lot of programs are completely not designed to not use the screen, thus leading to excessive key presses
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Actually, I have seen a wings touchscreen go bad without damage to the physical screen.
Also, while there would be more keypresses, there would also be an added benefit of using more powerful programs if one could get pro on their smartphone device.
So, yeah, going to have to disagree with you twice there...
Jline, i assume you mean smartphone on your pro device. Anyway, theoretically, everything WOULD run faster, depending on the kind of pull the program wants.
I personally would like it because i find the wm pro interface a bit clunky and slow and i don't want to install all kind of software that ultimately makes it slower.
okey dokey! got some info from l3v5y about this
he says you can cook a rom with smartphone's core and oem and ppc's sys folders. The trick is, i believe, to use a core from a device that has a qvga screen. That would mean a wings or a juno (both have slideout keyboards and the wings is practically in ppc configuration anyway. the juno doesnt have the number pad, though, which the wings does)
...this could mean Neo on the Wing! haha That would be pretty amazing.
hmm... just the idea of Neo might make me actually create this ROM... I was thinking of creating a phone less one, as well... for people who have a broken radio or don't have it with a provider and want it as a PDA. But of course... I'm already in more projects that I have time to work on... Which reminds me... I haven't finished my application to the university I'm transfering to next semester.... umm... yea...
I can see this project as easily achieveable..but how would rotation work? That is one thing that baffles me. This should definietly be taken somewhere. I'd lose my touchscreen for neo...maybe. Or someday get a Shadow 2. hm..
well, the HTC wings (fittingly) is a smartphone with essentially kaiser hardware with a slideout keyboard.
I'd gladly lose the touchscreen for ease of use.
maybe one of the junior rom cooks (the ones that are still in high school) can help us!
I would so help...if I knew how to cook. But I don't.
What good is a summer with nothing to do?
Theoretically, it's easy. Theoretically. The theoretically bit is the reason why i don't do it myself.
THEORETICALLY, what you do is you take a standard rom, extract it into SYS, OEM, and XIP and do the same with a herald rom. Then you can take the OEM from the herald, the sys from the smartphone, and port the smartphone's XIP to the herald.
Seems simple, right? Ivan seems to be the resident expert on this. It's a shame he's so busy
UPDATE!
I just tried to cook myself such a rom.
TOTAL EPIC FAILURE
for some reason, my pc has this aversion to extracting roms via hypercore so i have to do it manually. bah.
Oh also, XIP hates me
That scares me. As easy as it sounds...I would like to not destroy my Wing in the process. haha
as long as your wing is hard spl'd destroying it is harder than cooking itself
no worries there, i'm just clueless
that would be pretty cool.
i would like to have this style for the today/home screen:
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just adding touch functionality to it. and a sliding motion to go accross emails, texts, etc would be nice too.
there is also something else i want to see done....a few things actually:
1)A hardware mod for the Wing adding an accelerometer to it
-you know that would be pretty amazing to have one on the Wing
2)Another hardware mod with a front camera installed for video calling
-that would be perfect. the select button on the d-pad can act as a vanity mirror so you can make sure they can see you.
3)A ROM with touch gestures (like WM 7 is going to have)
-of course when it gets released, i know its going to get on the Wing ASAP lol but whats stopping one of us from doing it?
4)Another hardware modification cutting out the lower part of the phones casing and adding a bigger (longer) touch screen to it.
-as you can see there is a piece at the bottom. just cut that out and put in a larger touch screen. the bigger the better.
5)And finally another hardware mod that puts in a better processor for the Wing.
-and this would tie it all together. the processor on the Wing only does 200mhz and you can increase that to 247mhz with no problem. But if we added a better processor thats average speed was 247mhz just imagine what we could do. A Wing processing over 300mhz would be lag free and nice to play with lol.
thats my wishlist for the Wing but i doubt any of it will happen (aside from WM 7 being ported to it lol)
actually, wm7 might not even make it due to hardware restrictions (wm7 wants all sorts of crazy hardware)
I think we should just stick to the non-touch standard layout because i hate my touchscreen but i love the keyboard, and my other wing's touch screen doesn't even work. Both are HSPL'd, luckily.
You're a rom cook, right? Could you just make a barebones kind of rom? You could base it off an existing rom smartphone rom so all the fixes are already in there!
I highly doubt [Se7en] would run at an acceptable pace on the Wing's anemic hardware. lol It's like watching Manilla run at 0.35 fps on a Kaiser. Like molasses so delicious yet so slow. hahah xD
You can do that right? I mean to say having the Sliding Panels and Neo? I would assume that they wouldn't conflict each other? Then the crappy default homescreens could be removed to just leave Neo and Sliding Panels. I would assume it would also run a little bit faster? [Standard on a Professional Device]
I'd love to try this, but if Fzzyrn can't do I probably really have no chance.
actually, i have the technological competence of a betamax
i want the sliding panels myself.
Hi!
I've been using my uni from the past couple years or more and am waiting to switch to the raph. I need to wait for another 15-20 days before i can get my hands on one (and thats killing me :-( ) and until I do, I was hoping that someone who's made the jump from a uni can shed some light on how it compares.
EDIT: Most importantly, can someone compare the two keyboards???
Cheers,
San
difficult....
The Universal keyboard is superb but bigggggggggggg.
I like the Raphael keyboard very much. Had a lot of problems with the TytnII. No numbers without the function key and easily I touched one of the hardware keys, entering in a menu etc.
This is all solved by the Raphael.
I may want to remap the sms and mail key in spacebar or so. I type them accidentally now and then, entering in those programs. But I can live with it
Huib
I also have a universal and have found no other phone that is as complete as it is 3+ years on from when I got it but with the extended battery pack on I am a little sick of the brick type comments I get and fancy a change.
However the limitations of the touch diamond mean I am only seriously considering the Touch Pro but the current £500 sim free price tag is too much - waiting for some decent conrtract deals..
Is the touch pro actually that much smaller than the universal in real world use? Anyone have any pictures of them side by side?
With a Windows 6.1 rom on (tomal!) the universal it really flies, does everything I need (apart from maybe HDSPA 3g occasionally) so if anyone has both it would be great to give us some comaparisons...
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Is the touch pro actually that much smaller than the universal in real world use? Anyone have any pictures of them side by side?
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Much, much smaller. Nothing negative said about good old Universal.
But it comes with an extremely handly pouch that you can keep in your shirtpocket after having taken the Raphael out.
It is a small but very handy thing.
And you get a lot of extra tools, like GPS etc.
I also own a TytnII, and I miss some buttons, but this TouchPro ..... brrrrr.
I also believe that battery life in 3g mode is acceptable now. But I could not fully test it.
With both Universal and TytnII it was unworkable and I could only use GPRS/GSM to save battery live.
And GPRS and MSN MEssenger bite each other and were giving me many missed calls. Data and voice are impossible in GPRS mode.
Huib
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Looks a lot smaller.
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http://www.sizeasy.com/page/size_comparison/15733-HTC-Universal-vs-Apple-iPhone-vs-HTC-Touch-Pro
Thanks for the replies guys.
That sizeasy site is cool adamdon89 - I have bookmarked it
Minds made up - just need a decent offer on a UK contract now then!
If the picture doesn't do it for you, volume-wise, the Universal is ~275% the size of the Touch Pro. That is, grind some Touch Pros up (no, please don't actually try it!) and you could almost fit 3 Touch Pros in the space of the Universal.
thanks for your feedback guys!
can someone specifically answer on these lines, in comparison to a universal -
1. Overall device speed, through menus, launching proggies etc.
The uni is quite sluggish in my opinion....is the TP a lot more responsive??
2. Keyboard layout...
Minor changes, no windows key, no OK button.....does this feel like a huge loss in happiness?
3. Keyboard usability...
how does it really feel when compared to a uni's keyboard? The uni has a fairly large keyboard....now, using the TP, do you find it really hard to type on?
4. Is the OS a lot more stable?
I hope so! My Uni on wm6.1 is usually a nightmare....crashes atleast 5 times a day (i have a bad rom now i guess)
cheers & thanks again!
San
i had the Uni swapped it for a tytnII i wished i did't now i have the touch im happy again.
it is defently faster than my uni that ran wm6
the only complaint i had with the uni was its size, i find the touch just right.
IPhone3G and HTC Touch Diamond
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Since there are many articles about iPhone and discussions which one
is better the iPhone or HTC Diamond I have decided to check how good
iPhone actually is. They all say that Mac OS X is much faster than the WinMo but I never believed them and now I know why I haven’t believed them.
Contacts and Dialer
Firstly what I checked is the speed of opening contacts and phone
dialer, and I can tell you that WinMo (6.5) is actually faster here.
Both are pretty good, but iPhone is opening those 2 things little bit
slower than hTC does, so WinMo wins here.
Email
Next what I checked is the email speed, both are synchronizing Inbox
pretty fast, both devices are opening emails pretty fast and they are equal there but scrolling through them is better on the iPhone. Also setting up email account is faster and easier on iPhone than on the HTC Diamond. On the other hand reading emails is better on hTC Diamond (although scrolling is better in iPhone) because Diamond has much better resolution so reading emails is much more "natural" than on the iPhone and you won’t "kill" your eyes reading them.
Reading documents
Next thing I have tested is reading PDF's, although you can’t read your
PDF's from storage (unless you jailbreak it) reading PDF's is much
faster on the iPhone also scrolling through them is working
flawlessly. But we have here again resolution problem so you oftenly
need to zoom in to see the text. Since WinMo users have office preinstalled on their phones and also since 2010 version we have kinetic scrolling reading any office document is much better than on the iPhone
Wi-Fi
I have tested phones with 2 positions, one in my house to see will they both connect normally to my house network and they both did. In second testing I wanted to connect to my friend’s network. With Diamond no problem I can use his Wi-Fi without any problems but iPhone haven’t even managed to find that network, I have even try to manually connect to that network but no lock, so Diamond is much better with Wi-Fi recipient!
Camera
Taking pictures in the middle of the day seems to be better on iPhone, although pic is smaller colors seems to be better on iPhone’s pic. Taking in-house screens seems to be better on Diamond less noise and better resolution. They are both equally at night, both useless although iPhone pic seems little (really little) bit better
Screen
Not only that iPhone has catastrophic resolution compared to any other WinMo device but also screen quality seems much better on hTC, although iPhone has little bit more bright screen, screen looks so “washed” (black becomes grey…) on that setting. Also viewing anything from a different angle on iPhone’s screen is useless (like viewing film on a turbo cheap LCD from a different angle), while you can normally see anything on Diamond screen without loss in pic quality.
Browser
Well opening Internet Browser and web pages is definitely faster on the
iPhone (about 20-30% faster) but viewing them is better on the HTC Diamond
again because of the resolution, it is much, much easier and painless
reading it on a Diamond. Rotating to landscape is faster on the
iPhone but speed of reverting it back to portrait is same on both
devices.
Keyboard
In portrait speed of typing is almost same on both devices (iPhone is faster for about 5%) in landscape iPhone's big screen gives opportunity to type much faster than on a Diamond, although on iPhone I really miss coma and dot button, also there are no arrows so sometimes when you need to edit one letter you need to delete whole word correct it, big disadvantage. Also if you prefer type on classic phone keypad (abc) there is no option for that on an iPhone.
Battery
Haven’t tested this hardly, but from what I could see with general usage iPhone’s battery is around 30% better
Overall I still prefer my Diamond since it has much more tweaking options and iPhone still lacks some important things (e.g. you can't change a thing in camera, you can’t see your next appointment on the home screen/lock screen-can be fixed by jail breaking it, but then performance becomes worse) and soon iPhone becomes boring while I can tweak my Diamond forever and I just can't be bored with it
A little bit partial but who cares, i have a Touch Diamond too
What do you mean with partial?
Hey guys,
You guys remember the days of touch pro2, now that was an awesome keyboard phone. But, now with the age of slim being the new trend. Would we see more phones that resemble the keyboard of the touch pro2. So, let's begin the discussion on what you think the future of keyboard phone is. I wish htc goes back to those key features which made it so great....
sorry, if there is another thread like this....
They might disappear eventually, but I think some heavy texters still prefer physical keyboards. With Swype I can almost meet the speed of a physical keyboard, but it's not quite the same. Optional bluetooth keyboards that attach in some way might start to become more prevalent, though.
HTC Universal (Ago 2005)
This was the master of keyboard devices
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Still active and none even close to this beauty
It seems like its only a matter of time before software keyboards get better - there just isn't space to put a physical keyboard on a phone. the swype system seems to be the best currently but anyone might dream up newer and better ways. speech recognition is also getting better all the time.
Tactile screens will probably bring about the real end to physical keyboards as they're the only way to really replace them. It'd be the best of both worlds as well. Imagine a physical keyboard that's context sensitive!
I don't see them dying completely. I know a lot of people crying when Blackberry is brought up, but there are still quite a few people over there that won't give up on a physical kb.
I have even contemplated it myself with a 9900. If not for the bricking issue....it really is an amazing phone, IMO.
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I think there will continue to be a market for hard keys, but all things have their time.
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I'm a fan of the Droid 2 and 3's keyboard, but I rather have a touchscreen now.
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I'm a fan of the Droid 2 and 3's keyboard, but I rather have a touchscreen now.
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yeah, but those keyboards are nothing compared to the keyboard on touchpro2...
Touch screens are annoying sometimes, on keyboard phones you always hit right button, anyway I prefer touch screens (dictionary is very helpful while typing). Today I had a chance to play with speech recognition on iPhone and its preaty cool...Someone should start doing research on mind keyboards, just think instead of typing
I agree that there is still a market for keyboards, but with phones becoming thinner, there's really no way to have a real keyboard anymore. I'm personally all for touchscreen digital keyboards, but I understand some people don't like change.
The strongest point against physical kb is the space issue. Period. It is literally a waste of space. I was on bb for a good while and swore I'd never leave, so loved the keys blah blah blah. Swiftkeyx made me just as fast, and the tech, as everyone has mentioned, is only getting better
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I could live without physical keys while typing (even though its a struggle) but nothing is ever going to replace physical buttons for playing games.
Pickx said:
I could live without physical keys while typing (even though its a struggle) but nothing is ever going to replace physical buttons for playing games.
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Agreed. Not only do on screen buttons take up space, they aren't as easy to use as physical buttons.
i feel the pain
my work just switched me off the blackberry and onto touch screens..... our hands are to dirty to work them!
I think there will continue to be a market for hard keys
I love my Epic because of the keyboard. For long emails and typing in terminal mode where I have to type a lot of symbols and and numbers, you can't beat a physical keyboard (don't have to keep hitting the symbol key and alphabet key just to switch between symbols, numbers, and letters). Also, while playing emulator games like Street Fighter II, I can use my Game Gripper and it feels just like a controller. Also having that extra half screen of visual real estate while typing does help as well.
I like the HTC Desire Z
lilshortomi said:
I like the HTC Desire Z
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yeah, the desire z was good, but the keyboard was a bit small...
I had a hell of a time finding a qwerty smartphone to replace my G2 (T-Mo branded Desire Z) - ended up with a Captivate Glide and haven't looked back since. I've tried using Swype, but it just isnt the same. I can't see where my finger is and no tactile feedback for on-screen keys, and the OSK covers up (for example) the message I'm trying to reply to...
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