first i like fuze (touch pro).. i like the qwerty keyboard.. but i heard a lot of video crap.. like the old days of kaiser..
my other options are Omnia and Xperia
Omnia has a good feedback at video and speed.. but lacks the qwerty board... but it has 16gb internal memory
Xperia because of the qwerty and speed.. but dont know any flaws..
Xperia and Fuze has a very good support in our site.. i dont know about Omnia??
please give me a feedback like pros and cons, personal experiences..
or should i save my money and wait for the next set of PPC by HTC this 2nd quarter of the year.. WinMo 7 will be release.. and wishing for the snapdragon chipset to be integrated.. 1gig Mhz.. can support 12mp camera.. still hoping...
Fuze
I had the same decision and i bought the Raphael/Touch Pro/Fuze. got it mostly for the keyboard but also because i loved the look of Touch Flo 3D.
At first i was a little disappointed, i had to soft reset at least once a day to keep it working and everything was pretty slow, but i flashed my ROM to Elite RC3 a while ago and it made my Raphael the phone that i wanted it to be to begin with!
Pros extremely fast everywhere, very stable, slide out keyboard is the best you will find IMHO, nice looking interface that is extremely useful and a time saver, lots of applications made just for it!
Cons Its not as good straight out of the box (flash the ROM), camera is slow as a wet week (missed many a photo)
as for the other two i cant give any first hand experience but you will have to find another website for support on the omnia (counts it out for me lol)
Xperia is a great phone it has support on this site (albeit not as much as the Raphael) if it was me choosing again i would be choosing between the Xperia Panels vs Touch Flo 3D and which i like the look of best.
Oh btw one of the things that really swayed me to the Raphael over the Xperia (my 2nd choice) was the VGA screen, im a huge software lover and LOTS of the games and applications i love aren't WVGA compatible and i didn't want to have to run a resolution changer program all the time.
hope this helps you!
thanks man.. im also thinking in the future use.. winmo 7 will use gesture and xperia doesnt have it.. maybe il buy the fuze..
btw, how's your eperience in palying games? slow? im seeing lot of video driver problem in fuze.. does this new ROMs already know to fix it? or putting the D3D from diamond does it?
for your information, you might not be able to use your fuze with WM7's new features since microsoft announced it might require different hardware
go with HTC Advantage 7510. BIG 5" screen, full haptic keyboard and 16Gb storage
thats too bad.. if fuze cant make it to WM7.. i think ill wait for the new addition of HTC. Rhodium ROCKS! its like touch HD with qwerty board! wow.. ill stick with my good old hermes before rhodium hits.. thanks by the way!
in the meantime, get over to the hermes section and flash section8prime8 wm6.5 beta!
Omnia vs HTC diamond
I really like the touch-flo 3d UI and the fact that the diamond is such a small package, but the 4Gb of memory is sort low so....
I am asking if I got the Omnia, would I be able to install some apps and things to make it almost as flashy as the Touch-Flo 3d? and is it going to be as enjoyable as the Diamonds UI or will it just be too much hassel to "pimp out" the Omnia?
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Omnia vs HTC diamond
I really like the touch-flo 3d UI and the fact that the diamond is such a small package, but the 4Gb of memory is sort low so....
I am asking if I got the Omnia, would I be able to install some apps and things to make it almost as flashy as the Touch-Flo 3d? and is it going to be as enjoyable as the Diamonds UI or will it just be too much hassel to "pimp out" the Omnia?
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Welcome to the forum
This question has been made several times, just do a search
in personal I would go for the Diamond as is an HTC device so it will have the great support form this site, otherwise Omnia is no HTC build so it will be harder to get stuff (But yes you can find)
Good luck,
So far on WM6.5 there is no solution for emulating VGA resolution. Of course we used to use WVGAFix from Cotulla to get this done so we could run programs that needed VGA res to run. But his fix doesn't work on 6.5 There is one app that I like so much I have been going back to wm6.1 for it. That is Orions: Legend of Wizards. I know a lot of members here play this game, the ones that have discovered it anyway. It's a lot like Magic the Gathering.
So, I'm caught in this catch 22. I would like to use the latest cooked Roms for my X1 but I would also like to continue to play this awesome game. WM6.1 is about to be left to die in it's old age. I decided to ask about a WVGA supporting re-release from the developer. Their reply sounds like a no-go and I'd like to share the exchange with you...
Hello,
I would like to say that I really like Orions. It is an excellent
game and is just my type. I can no longer play it though because my
new device has a WVGA resolution 800x480. Do you plan to release a
new version of Orions that will run on a WVGA resolution ppc? This
will be important for your company as soon enough all new PPC devices
will be WVGA. In fact, as I understand it wm6.5 can only run at WVGA
resolution.
Thank you for your time,
Me
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Hello You,
thanks for your feedback, there are will be no support for resolution
800x480 and wm6.5, but if you are interested we've recently ported Orions
to iPhone/iPod Touch.
In the near future we are going to make our games for iPhone/iPod Touch
platform only.
Kind regards,
Natalia Kovalchuk
http://imoregames.com/
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This makes me sad. This app is my favorite but the experience has been getting worse for a while. It was great on my Kaiser at VGA but when I upgraded to an Xperia I had to use WVGAFIX which left me effectively with less physical real estate to play on than the Kaiser. Now if I upgrade to 6.5 I can't run the game at all. And the dev is leaving us out to dry.
Hay guys,
I am getting a new PDA, I have tytn now and it has served me good.
Could you give me your look on this two models, I am thinking about Samsung, since it has much better specs and display, but I got used to touchflo 3D interface a lot...
Is it possible to put it on Omnia?
Your answer will be appreciated and will help me decide what to buy.
Thanks!
There is one added value for choosing HD
The sup`port of this fantastic site!!
Just because of that I´ll choose HD even if omnia has better specs...
Yes, that is bothering me too...
Well if you're not gonna flash your device or use Touch Flo 3D or any other ported software, than get Omnia 2.
You will still be able to get support in this forum. Most of the issues of non-HTC devices can be supported/solved without the need to correspond to an HTC device.
You could use TouchFlo 3D on your Omnia 2 if its WVGA. However as mentioned above the support provided by this site significantly exceeds that of any site that supports the Omnia. To be completely honest, if you havent bought your device yet you should consider the Touch Diamond II. The reasoning behind this is i read an article somewhere mentioning that devices without a windows button will not get an official WM6.5 ROM or something stupid like that (Correct me if im wrong).
Ill be upgrading from my Tytn to an Omnia2
I agree that HTC gets great support here but Hardware and capability wise there is nothing to compare with the omnia2 on the horizon.
AMOLED screen,headphone jack,tv-out,5mpx cam with dual flash....what more could anyone possibly want?
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Ill be upgrading from my Tytn to an Omnia2
I agree that HTC gets great support here but Hardware and capability wise there is nothing to compare with the omnia2 on the horizon.
AMOLED screen,headphone jack,tv-out,5mpx cam with dual flash....what more could anyone possibly want?
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A forum specialized like this for that device!!!
Hmm, the Touch HD vs Omnia II i8000.
Well, lets face it, this is a question of 'XDA support' or 'No XDA support'. Specs-wise, the i8000 has the Touch HD crushed completely (as have been the case with all new Samsung models; HTC hasn't updated their specs in forever).
Personally, if you ask me for a choice between those two models, I would go with the i8000. The main reason I love XDA support is that it makes the interface looks better and it makes the software faster, but from what I see, the i8000 is already plenty fast and it looks very, very good. Furthermore, the i8000 has support forums too (though not on the level of XDA), so any deficiency may be corrected by its own forums anyway.
The idea of choosing a WM device based on software seems very silly to me. One can find a CAB for just about any Windows Mobile software (including, yes, TouchFlo 3D), so transition between WM devices based on software is very simple. If anything, the i8000 should be more appealing software-wise as Samsung put a lot of amazing software on it that has not been ported to other devices yet.
Always buy for the better specs and design. Never buy for the software support. Buy for the software that is already provided.
Any extras can be found on other fan sites and other non-htc developers. Therefore the Omnia 2 is a much better choice.
Besides there are plenty of software that are created that supports non-htc devices, and there are also software that are created specifically for non-htc devices.
Furthermore alot of the technical problems are Windows Mobile based and not always HTC based.
The only 2 reasons to get HTC devices is 1) if you prefer the design and the specs of HTC and 2) if you want to flash your ROM.
HTC devices are easily flashed to a different ROM, but hey man not everyone uses ROMs... I don't ever use ROM's...
Therefore Omnia 2 is a perfect choice if you don't flash your ROM...and point number 1 shows that HTC Touch HD is outdated....so therefore get Omnia 2 if you don't flash your ROM....
Think about it mate.
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Well if you're not gonna flash your device or use Touch Flo 3D or any other ported software, than get Omnia 2.
You will still be able to get support in this forum. Most of the issues of non-HTC devices can be supported/solved without the need to correspond to an HTC device.
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undoubtedly, omnia II
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what more could anyone possibly want?
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a zooming ability on the video camera (while filming)
also, can it play divx/xvid movies like the HD can with coreplayer?
i download movies and dont have to re-encode them, just drag, drop, play. (...generally, unless there was some esoteric encoding used)
mark
I have the same dilemma. I am about to replace my Sony Ericsson W960i with a proper PDA and I am taking into account both, Touch HD and Omnia II.
Similarly I would like to have a Touch Flo 3d interface on my device and therefore I was keener on HTC Touch HD at first. However since it is possible to get a Touch Flo 3d onto all WinMo devices (as I deduced from 8525Smart's post)
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One can find a CAB for just about any Windows Mobile software (including, yes, TouchFlo 3D)
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I rather buy Omnia.
And here it comes to questions:
1. Are my assumptions concerning getting Touch Flo 3d onto Omnia correct?
2. Could anyone explain to me this ->
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....so therefore get Omnia 2 if you don't flash your ROM....
Think about it mate.
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What does it mean to"flash your ROM" and how is it useful? Isn't it simply upgrading/updating the ROM?
I'd be grateful if you could help
well livegod guess what ! omnia2 has zooming while taking videos with its awesom camera
and the touch player can support almost 99% of all my downloaded and converted movies
as for the TF3D .. i love the new one and i cant seem to find it anywhere to be installed on my omnia2
i hate the widgets... makes the phone looks like a toy so i am using spbmobile shell + pointui
i'am from germany and I have the same problem.....
But here I can buy the Omnia in a few month....:-(
But what is whith the HTC LEO????????
Touchwiz 2.0 quite simply covers up WM 6.1 SO thoroughly on the Omnia II, it's almost like you're not using a Windows phone. The Omnia II is definitely the better pick unless you REALLY want ROMs to flash. Then wait for the Whitestone or Firestone or whatever HTC have next.
omnia camera is far better than the HD2
especially the video recording
the HD2 dont have a chance
but i dont care about the video recording so i will get the HD2
HD2, wins every time. You can flash what ever you want (when hspl comes out!), why would you ever want an omnia?
Hands down the HD2 (Leo). PPC of the year so far!
Samsung Omnia 2 place...
I'm a Forum XDA user for a long time.
It helped me a lot with my old HTC Wizard.
I was quite worried about buying an Omnia2 and losing the Forum support. But HTC HD cannot win O2 in SPECS.
About support... boys I have to admit.
For Omnia2 (that is not a HTC device) the best software and tweaks and amazing ROMs can be found on MODACO (sorry boys, but I have to say).
If you own an HTC device don't even consider getting there. The best place is here!!!
Concerning the TouchFlo3D, there are many versions available on MODACO. There's even a HTC HD2 like ROM with Sense 2.5
Thanks!
I want to buy an N97 clone (http://www.nowsupplier.com/n97-windows-mobile-wifi-smartphone-java-slide-phone-white-p-346.html) cos i like WM and the N97 design, but it only has WM6.1, would it be possible to flash it with 6.5 or can I install manila 3d or 2d from a cab file onto it and where can I get the flat manila WM6.1 theme. Thanks in advance.
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I want to buy an N97 clone (http://www.nowsupplier.com/n97-windows-mobile-wifi-smartphone-java-slide-phone-white-p-346.html) cos i like WM and the N97 design, but it only has WM6.1, would it be possible to flash it with 6.5 or can I install manila 3d or 2d from a cab file onto it and where can I get the flat manila WM6.1 theme. Thanks in advance.
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Don't want to ran on your parade to much with this, but with all clones, I wouldn't bother with this at all.
Its tech specs are poor, 360mhz processor? Seriously? 2g and edge as well. There is not mention to ram, only an 8gb rom...
As to part of your question, it is QVGA, so you'd just need to find the QVGA Manilla 2d files, I have seen them around on the forums somewhere.
As to roms, I can't help.
Thanks alot, I thought so, my hermes is better just liked the look of it, and wanted to "wow" people with a cheap N97 lookalike.