Hello all
I have option to buy the Diamond2 in UK in a week as it comes out, its very tempting but I'm not sure cause the Diamond2 is not so much better than my Cruise as I see. I don't want devices like Omnia HD or Toshiba G01 cause they are very big & don't want to leave this forum.
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Diamond2 pro's over the Cruise:
-looks better + steel
-size, lightness & weight
-little bit faster CPU (I don't know about the video & graphics drivers)
-very fast response as never seen on HTC devices (rumor?)
-screen size & resolution
-more ram & rom
-5mp camera (not much difference from my 3mp)
-TF3D 2 (will be ported sooner or later to qvga)
-accelerometer
Obvious Diamond2 is better device but the differences are minor and the most annoying thing is that devices like the old Omnia maybe faster (i read that D2 response so fast as never seen on HTC devices - is it rumor?)
Anyway no device worth buying without the support like this forum so don't know if Diamond2 worth buying or keep waiting for HTC to make something really good...
Please help me decide any opinions, thoughts or advices are welcomed!
Well, I have just decided to do exactly the same and ordered mine. What makes it easy for me is that I'm changing jobs, so I have to return my company Cruise anyway. I think the Diamond2 is way better looking and the screen is much bigger and VGA. TF3D will not be ported to QVGA I think. The cruise just can't handle the 3D graphics. Touch HD's TF3D wasn't ported to the Cruise either in an every day working manner.
I think the Omnia and Xperia are just plain ugly, when it comes to the finishing of the housing, buttons, edges around the screen etc. I don't need a keyboard, so the TP2 is just needlessly thicker and more expensive for me. HD is just too big for me, so I end up with the D2.
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My magician has developed a hardware fault with it's sound. It's time to upgrade.
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It was my first Pocket PC phone, and although I liked the size, I've decided I want something a little better
I'm not sure what to get. The TyTN looks like overkill for me. I don't use my phone much, it's more of a PDA that conveniently doubles as a phone.
I think transcriber is the best input system for text, as long as you know how to write. The idea of typing with thumbs irks me, so I don't really want a keyboard, unless someone else here can say that transcriber sucks vs a thumb keyboard.
Oh, and it's gotta be VGA. QVGA is cute, but yeah, I want VGA.
So, anyone got any recommendations?
Hi Jed.
I was going to recommend the Jamin which is the 'natural progression' from the Jam, but the I got to the end of your post and saw the 'must be VGA'
As far as I know there is only one VGA phone out there today and that is the Universal/Exec/Jasjar.
Personally I'd never get something that size to double as a phone. It's a great gadget (2 cams. BT WIFI 3G) but has the form factor of a brick.
I think you should reconsider the TyTN or Hermes. I love my Jamin but it lucks 3G, and if you're going to upgrade, might as well think of the future.
As for VGA, what can you really do with it on a 2.8" screen?
Well that's just some thoughts for you.
Hey, thanks for your reply.
The reason I want VGA is
a) I don't want to have to recompress movies to watch them. I dont' care how big they are.
b) I use my magician extensively for Japanese. QVGA is just too small for Kanji, which is really hard to read at that res. I have to copy it to Pocket Word and jack up the font size to be able to read it.
c) Higher res wallpapers are sexy ;D
As for the future, I plan to move to Japan in the next six months to a year, and I don't want to spend heaps on a phone that I'll just have to ditch when I move. I know how finnickey their phone system is.
I've been looking around, and I read somewhere that the Wizard was VGA. But from what you've said... it's not? Urk, it isn't. Lucky, I was about to get one, heh.
EDIT: Looks like you're right. Oh well, I'll give up on the VGA and go for a Jamin.
I have an option to trade my HTC S710 for a friends P990i... I'm playing with the P990i right now and the large touch screen and browsing with the built in Opera browser is amazing.
I still don't really know if it's a stupid trade. I love my HTC S710 aswell but I've always wanted a touch screen.
The P990i has 3G and a 2mpx camera with autofocus aswell... It takes way better images than my S710 does.
Since this is mainly a windows mobile forum this might be the wrong forum to ask for an advice like this.
What would you do? Which device do you think is better??? I only have until tomorrow to decide...
Help me please!!!
I have no experience with touchscreen-less WM phones but I have both an HTC TyTN and an SE P990i and must say that I prefer the P990i because of it's better camera, better usability as a phone and that A2DP works perfectly without skipping and without draining the phone battery - at least when paired with a DS970 headset. And contact names are displayed in the headset display without the need for third party software!
The only issue I have with it is that the Media Player has a bug with the handling of very long MP3 files. I like audiobooks and the player is not able to resume properly after pausing and closing it in the middle of a book. Instead most of the time it skips to the next MP3 file in the book.
And of course the infamous memory leak issue that SE never wanted to admit existed before ending firmware development. You need to reboot the phone at least once every second day to avoid the phone doing so on its own while you're in the middle of something.
I've almost decided to keep the P990 and give him my HTC S710 now after I've been playing with the P990 for hours.
The P990 display is gorgeous and I've installed the Gdesk application and a WM6 design so it looks absolutely amazing and with swiss manager pro it's also very easy to close apps running in the background.
It's just that I'm afraid I will miss the whole WM community a lot!!!
I forgot to mention I kept the S710 aswell so now I have both
The next day I asked him if I could buy his P990 instead because I wanted to keep my S710 and he sold it to me for only ~$150, I guess it was a bargain after all?!...
I've made my P990 look almost like WM6 using the gdesk shell app...
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nice!
i like the p990i, but i use alot of winmo only apps for work and school and stuff
even here at the year 2014 id wish to keep my P990i ...because it was my joy of development , joy of creativity , and joy of life ,indead i loved it! this really making me :crying:
Hi, I didn't want to post in the diamond section as there seems to be lots of anger at people posting their frustration with the diamond phone...
Anyways, I recently recieved a diamond, i've only been using it around a week, and i do like it, however, the biggest thing for me is the speaker phone and general volume of the phone, i keep missing calls because its so quiet, and speaker phone is practically unusable unless your in the libary(in which case you shouldn't be using it anyway!)
My previous phone was an o2 orbit, which still feels faster than the diamond, but it looks so outdated now, and the qvga screen (which never bothered me before using a vga screen) seems so ugly to look at, overall i feel the orbit was a much better phone and was wondering if any of the newer wm devices are built more towards quailty than fashionable?
I'd need a device with gps, wm, preferably vga or higher screen.
one of the major things that prevents me from going back is that tomtom seems a lot smooooother with the diamond, its always the correct position on roadsabouts, the only gripe i had with the orbit was the slow processor which is the only thing i can think of that made some confusing junctions more confusing as the location was slowly updating on the gps.
sorry if people think this post is a waste of peoples time, i was just hoping someone could offer a good suggestion for a future upgrade, I shall live with the diamond for the time being, after all, its a very nice device, its just it seems half finished
*edit*
ok i've just found the o2 zest, 624mhz processor...and its made by asus, not as pretty as the diamond, but the few reviews i've found seem promising
http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/4wm-reviews-hardware/18459-o2-xda-zest-review.html
Check out the blackstone (touch hd)
from what i here its really nice. it has the large screen you are after (and of course it has gps)
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are you selling your diamond???
Hello
Toshiba's presence at MWC was kicked off today by launching two new phones with an emphasis on software, not hardware. The TG02 is a direct sequel to the TG01 and is one of Toshiba's first phones with capacitive touch; it uses Windows Mobile 6.5 and is likely to use 6.5.3 to get the new touch features. Custom changes have been made to the interface to bring in a 3D menu for navigating apps.
The phone is functionally very similar to its predecessor and uses a 1GHz processor as well as a 4.1-inch screen size, though unlike the old model it uses OLED instead of LCD. A microSDHC slot gives room for 32GB of storage in the 0.39-inch thick handset.
A companion, the K01, is more original and carries a slide-out keyboard in return for a thicker (0.51 inches) body that keeps the same processor, screen and storage.
Ship dates and the costs of either phone are still mysteries and won't become public until closer to launch.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/15/toshiba.phones.at.mwc.2010.get.a.refresh/
We can notice spb mobile shell on toshiba tg02, is it a lite version ? Toshiba may wants to give a better image of its mobiles, and a good interface like spb could help !
-> What do you think about these 2 new devices ?
-> Do you think toshiba could hold in the battle ?
This could be my next device
K01
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the K01 is the more interesting of the two devices. 4.1in qwerty device and it's still thin. Judging by the looks of the front capacitive buttons and the snapdragon chipset I'm thinking it will support Windows Phone 7. I wish it had a adjustable hinge like the Touch Pro2, but it has a 4.1in screen so it not a deal breaker for me. As much as I want this phone I'd rather wait to see what HTC will do for the next Touch Pro
krjcook said:
the K01 is the more interesting of the two devices. 4.1in qwerty device and it's still thin. Judging by the looks of the front capacitive buttons and the snapdragon chipset I'm thinking it will support Windows Phone 7. I wish it had a adjustable hinge like the Touch Pro2, but it has a 4.1in screen so it not a deal breaker for me. As much as I want this phone I'd rather wait to see what HTC will do for the next Touch Pro
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I am actually interested in the K01. This is the first qwerty device to have a +4 inch screen. I send big kudos to Toshiba.
Hi all,
I've been using the HTC Tornado Noble for 4 years already, and I'm still loving it, particularly because what the device could do for me
http://karhoe.net/my-windows-mobile-smartphone-my-everything.html
I have been tempted with the availabilities of many new touch screen device on the market but one of the thing that is holding me back is because I am not used to the touch screen input.
I have played with many touch screen input devices, be it capacitive or resistive and I find that I could not text as fast as I could with my T9 keypad.
No touch screen (even with vibration feedback) could provide the tactile feeling that a real keypad can provide. Furthermore, the dictionary function and predictive text input of a WinMo device is just very responsive.
It's been a while since HTC release a smartphone, last I recalled was the HTC S740, is it really the case that smartphones would be obsolete soon?
Maybe the iPhone craze has caused HTC to dedicate its resources towards making touch screen devices.
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Cheers
Yes
Another good smartphones are Excalibur and later Maple
The Best Google Android Phone Yet
The HTC Hero is a gorgeous smartphone that takes the best of the two previous Google Android phones -- the T-Mobile G1 and the myTouch 3G -- and builds on them. It's certainly not perfect, but the HTC Hero is, so far, my favorite Android phone, without a doubt. And it's earned a spot on my list of the best smartphones available today.
But nevertheless, it's still a touch screen input device!
Smartphone=non touch screen - PPC=touch screen
Not Excalibur or Maple, both are non touch smartphones
I actually think that HTC are going in the right direction with phones such as the Touch Pro2, which use a touchscreen for navigation and a qwerty keyboard for speedy typing - even faster than the alphanumeric layout used by normal phones.
The problem is there is still a niche for people who wants a real simple phone with PDA function, that's smartphone!
I would exceptionally prefer a candybar, no sliding mechanism, those ribbon are just thin and fragile
On that line of no touch smartphones, one of the best available is this: