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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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:
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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 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.
Hello, is this phone multitoouch?
Does it have another name as the previous one is Raphael?
thanks!
no as far as I know no htc device support multi-touch
as far as I know wm don't really support it as it require capacitive touch
rather then resistive touch which all wm devices use could be wrong though
Rudegar said:
no as far as I know no htc device support multi-touch
as far as I know wm don't really support it as it require capacitive touch
rather then resistive touch which all wm devices use could be wrong though
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i think youre right thats why M$ keeps saying that i would be a great feature of WM7...
ifim not mistaken apple has a patent on multitouch but i hear the touch pro now has multitouch which can only be exploited with the developer's test kit.
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ifim not mistaken apple has a patent on multitouch but i hear the touch pro now has multitouch which can only be exploited with the developer's test kit.
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if apple has a patent on multitouch sounds like cheating....
M$ has one multi-touch patent, which includes gestures, so they can legally implement it in Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7. The Touch Pro2's code name is the Rhodium.
And when you say the Raphael has multi-touch, I believe it's kind of a false multi touch. When you touch 2 points on a resistive touch screen, the phone registers the touch at the exact distance between the two points you're touching.
So what some people have started to do is include "invisible buttons" in their emulators, etc., so when you touch the up on the virtual DPAD and the "X" button, the point registers in between them, where there is an invisible button between those two points, whose action is to perform Up on the DPAD and press the "X" Button. I know it sounds confusing, but maybe this image will help.
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Dave
HTC HD2 is a multitiuch cell phone fellows...
tested...
HAHAHA... Dude you just succesfully answered a post that was over a year old... Congrats =)
Hi
I'm little confuse. What is difference between Touch Pro and Fuze.
How I can understand if my phone is Touch pro or Fuze
noemis said:
Hi
I'm little confuse. What is difference between Touch Pro and Fuze.
How I can understand if my phone is Touch pro or Fuze
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If it's from AT&T it's a fuze, if not it's a touch pro
Thanks. My is touch pro
Check the keyboard
If its missing the tab and control key, you got yourself a wanabe touch pro (Fuze)
Still can't believe they took those two keys away and replaced with a CAPS and OK button.....
Yeah CAPS is useless but I think the OK button is nice.
Anyways, the FUZE has AT&T 3G bands in addition to all the ones the Touch Pro has but removed the front camera. As it was said, it has a different keyboard arrangement.
damn it petard.. I was just going to say that...
Oh the Fuze also has a push to talk button right below the volume button.. that is reprogrammable (the new updated rom allows for a single push customization and you'll have to refer to the PTT remap thread to do the long push customization)
I have CAPS, TAB, CTRL, front camera and I haven't PTT button.
woah. that... is different. the fuze will also have the att logo where the front camera is supposed to be.
also, you should have att as your operator if you are using it with att.. otherwise that's not something i've seen before.
look up pictures of the tp, that might show the difference..or...... give us the pleasure of seeing photos of your phone.
the front camera and lack of ptt tells me it's not a fuze though
I search in google images for 'htc touch pro'
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and my phone looks like on images
looks like you'ra a proud owner of an actual htc touch pro, from htc.
gratz
looks like you'ra a proud owner of an actual htc touch pro, from htc.
gratz
I never knew the difference on the keyboard, I am bummed. I miss TAB. I have never even used OK, wth.
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
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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
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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.