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"Style and function mix for possibly the best phone yet."
Pros: Touch Flo 3D is beautiful. Built in micro SD with capacity up to 32GB(when available). Hard keyboard is a plus to me, might be a minus to others. VGA resolution, the screen is gorgeous.
Cons: Battery life, while not terrible, could be better.
Summary: While some consider the Iphone and Blackberry smart devices, I just consider them phones. Really, what can they do over the Instinct or the slew of other phones on the market now?
With Touch Pro you can literally administer your network while having lunch miles away. Connect via VPN and then your just a remote desktop launch away from your server and whatever you need to do.
With Word and Excel built in, you can download your attachments, edit them and then send them back all without have to go to a desktop. While other phones can open documents, anything but the most basic of documents gets messed up with 3rd party viewers and editors.
Multimedia has always been pretty good on Windows Mobile devices and its no exception on the Touch Pro. While it could be made more "pretty", it works just fine.
The CPU, memory, and storage on this phone is amazing. A 528 MHz processor, 288 MB of RAM and the ability for basically endless storage was the real selling factor for me. I have yet to tax the memory on this device, something that was done with ease on past WinMo devices. As of now, I have a 16GB microSD card that I don't see filling up anytime soon. If that does happen, the cards are easy to switch out.
The inclusion of Opera 9.5 was a must have in my opinion. Its absolutely flawless in my time using it so far. With the VGA screen, I can actually view whole webpages and using the scroll wheel easily zoom to whatever I want to view. You will not be disappointed.
Last but not least is the Touch Flo 3D. Amazing. I've had this phone for a few weeks now and I'm amazed at how crisp it is to the touch. You barely realize that its a WinMo phone. The scroll wheel is very nice. To enlarge or minimize text or pictures, you just run your finger around the center circle. My only complaint with that is I wish it worked with every application on the device.
In all, if your just looking for a phone to play multimedia files and keep your calendar, this might not be the phone for you. If you want a phone that is immensely customizable and has more power then some small laptops....this is your phone.
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