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"Exceeds Expectations by a Wide Margin" on by GaryCoombs
Pros: Stunning 480 x 800 screen
Finally a useable keyboard
Improved battery life
superb speakerphone
Opera 9.5 Browser
Much improved touch screen
Touch Flo Interface now highly useableCons: Price, of course, but well worth it.
Camera flashSummary: I've owned the HTC 6700, HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro, and now the HTC Touch Pro2. There is no argument that there has been a significant upward progression in all areas. If I could have designed the successor to the Touch Pro I could not have done better. There are countless significant improvements over the Touch Pro.
Here's an addendum on battery usage. There is no question that the TP2 is an improvement. Here is today's data and you get it by going to the information tab under power settings.
Screen size is a show stopping improvement. Even though the TP1 was 480 x 640 the improvement in going from a 2.8" screen to a 3.6" screen with 480 x 800 makes the web pages I use large enough to be functional. I'm a full time equities trader and I can finally use the full size Fidelity home page instead of just the mobile version designed only for phones. The Zoom Bar is a welcome addition to quickly resize an area of interest. 480 x 800 on a 3.6" screen makes for sharply chiseled images. In a word the screen on the TP2 is stunning. Compare side-by-side the lower resolution iPhone 320 x 480 screen with the higher resolution TP2 480 x 800 screen and the difference is dramatic.
Dual speakers have made a huge improvement in audio quality. Placing the TP2 on its face to quickly go to speaker phone is a joy and the audio quality and volume are superb.
A nice feature when using the phone is having the screen automatically go blank when holding the phone against your face. No more inadvertently pressing buttons with your ears or your nose.
The Opera 9.5 browser build 16983 is worlds better than the Windows Mobile Internet Explorer. There are literally hundreds of improvements, not the least of which is speed. You simply have to use Opera to appreciate what you have been missing.
I was concerned at first that I would miss the navigation control button that the TP1 had. You actually needed it with the TP1 because the touch screen wasn't all that useful for scrolling, particularly with the phone directory. After a few minutes with the TP2 you won't miss it at all as scrolling lists by touch now really works like it should. The improvements HTC has made with the Touch Screen are significant. The touch screen is now what it always should have been, highly useable.
How nice it is to be able to rearrange the Touch Flo buttons at the bottom of the home screen. And how nice to be able to simply place a check mark behind the ones you want to display and the ones you leave blank are no longer displayed. For example the stock button is of no use to me as the prices are delayed by 20 minutes. I require real-time data for trading. I don't check it and it's gone.
Having a highly functional keyboard is wonderful. The difference between the square matrix keyboard of the TP1 and the offset desktop arrangement of the keys on the TP2 cannot be overstated. The touch and feel are superb. One session with the new keyboard and you cannot go back to the TP1.
Battery life is much better than the TP1. I can easily get through an entire day with heavy usage where the TP1 required frequent recharges throughout the day. There is even a screen tab on the battery power screen that shows your usage since the last full charge. It shows total standby time, talk time, and device usage. You can really see how you are using your phone and how it effects battery life.
There are countless other improvements you will find as you explore your new TP2. In a nutshell this is by a wide margin the best smart phone I've ever owned. I had the opportunity to play with an iPhone for several hours and I definitely no longer suffer from iPhone envy.
Updated on Sep 18, 2009
I took my TP2 off the overnight charger at 7:18 AM. It is now 6:41 PM. My TP2 has been on battery only the entire day. Here are the stats:
7 hrs 59 min Standby Time
0 hrs 32 min Talk Time
3 hrs 21 min Internet use
It is now 6:41 PM and I still have 25% battery left and I'm about to attach to my computer to update files, email, etc. and of course recharge.
I'm more than pleased with battery life. -
"Great phone minor issues on excellent Sprint contract" on by Aaron1710
Pros: - Large, tiltable screen with great detail
- Nice custom HTC overlays for so many functions
- Good keyboard
- Sprint's Everything plan
- Wi-fi for at-home high speed
- Windows Mobile 6.5 OS upgrade
- Noice-cancelling speakerphone
- Great soundCons: - The "@" symbol is awkward to get for email addresses ("FN" and "2" are required, but only on same left side)
- Accidental selection of items with finger
- Web page scrolling can take a second or two to redraw new materialSummary: This is the most sophisticated phone available from any carrier as of this day. It is truly a wonderful device in a great many regards. We bought three of them for our family plan (Everything Data Family), along with two Blackberry phones.
UPDATE: Despite having a 16 GB memory card, the main memory on the phone is very limited and the phone seems to have occasional freeze-ups with several applications open. To help clear out memory and enhance sound quality, among other enhancements, I have installed tweaks from PPCGeeks.com called "Touch Pro 2 Cleanup." Also, some very useful utilities are linked to there to better manage the phone. I highly suggest visiting that thread for help with making the phone work better.
We are still getting acclimated to the phones, but are very impressed. We will be getting some extra memory (it supports MicroSDHC Class 6, 16 GB).
The screen is beautiful and can show webpages in full resolution, to 800 pixel of width. Of course, this can be quite small and hard to read, but HTC reserved a place to the side of the screen that allows near instant zooming and expansion. The touchscreen allows easy scrolling, left and right, up and down. HTC programmed many functions to behave as though the image is on a rolling wheel. This allows you to push content larger than the screen in a motion that keeps rolling by until it stops. Very cool and useful.
Both the microphone and the ear speaker are of great quality. The speakerphone does a wonderful job, too. Really great plusses.
We would not have five smartphones if we had stayed with Verizon, from which we just moved. Getting 3000 minutes, free roaming, unlimited nav, data, messaging costs over $410 a month on Verizon (before corporate discounts). On Sprint, it costs us $240 (including the $10 6 PM evening start for the plan, before corporate discounts). Verizon has Friends and Family for 10 people, but Sprint has a 7 PM evening start and 7 AM day start, and now, unlimited calling to and from all carriers' mobile phones. WIthout a doubt, Sprint makes buying this phone so attractive that we couldn't pass it up.
FYI, if you happen to belong to a credit union, you get an extra 10% off your monthly plan.
We are looking forward to our time with Sprint and these new phones!
Updated on Nov 3, 2009
We have found that it is easy to accidentally call someone when you think you are pressing on a contact's name to get their information. Also, we have found that a free screen saver utility, S2U2, can reduce some of these accidental calls by locking the screen, simply needing a swipe of your finger to unlock.
I will update this as needed.
Updated on Nov 3, 2009We were pleasantly surprised when we contacted Sprint for details on international roaming for a trip for my wife. If you have an Everything Data plan of some sort, you have free unlimited text messaging in any country you visit, as long as texts are to/from the US (assuming any roaming text messaging is allowed in that country). Also, we found out Sprint PRORATES the $40 unlimited international roaming data charge. For instance, if you take your Touch Pro 2 to Central America for a week, you only pay $10 if you have Sprint turn it on as you leave and off when you return? My wife will be taking advantage of these Sprint perks, along with Skype Mobile 3.0 for free calls back to the States, on her trip. By the way, Sprint's version of the HTC Touch Pro 2 is the only version from any carrier that does not have the SIM chip locked, meaning you can buy and install a SIM chip for your destination country and have in-country calls for the price that locals might pay.
Thanks Sprint! -
"Good looking phone with some great perks but.....lol" on by gtskyrider
Pros: Great phone, I love the speaker phone option when you put the phone face down! this phone was very well built with some great ideas in mind. I also love the integration with the phone.
Cons: First off...I'm on my second phone already...lol But I didn't give up, just though might be a bad phone which it was. I don't like when you put the phone to your ear the screen goes black, then you have to go through menus to get to where you were.
Summary: Great phone minus a few things such as stronger battery for such an action packed phone, stronger GPS, and also fix the back and forth thing when the screen goes black...other than that ...EXCELLENT!
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"Horrible Phone" on by ay-jay
Pros: QWERTY Keyboard
Cons: Buggy, crashes, many things simply do not work. (For example, the Facebook app, supplied with the phone, doesn't work at all.)
Summary: This is a HORRIBLE phone.
First of all, it has a Windows operating system. As you may have heard, Microsoft is coming out with new Windows 7 phones, so this one is already obsolete.
Now, on to some of the many problems with this phone.
- The delay between pushing a virtual button on the touch screen and recieving any feedback is far too long. Typing on this phone feels like talking to a very slow child.
- The main application screen has NO options for rearranging the apps. The one you just added will be WAY down at the bottom and you will have to scroll through several screens to get to it. (And good luck doing that without accidentially starting two or three applications by mistake.)
- The Preferences are completely illogically arranged. Among the categories there is one for "Updates and Feedback", so where would you expect to find options for updating the phone? Wrong. Those update controls are under another categogy called "Other".
- There does not seem to be any way to create an Album or re-arrange photos in the Photos and Videos section. Seriously, I've spent over an hour looking for a way to create and Album and am completely baffled. There's a menu called "Albums", but apparently no way to create any.
- The Facebook App, supplied with the phone, does not work. At all.
- There are three or four different ways to access your Text Messages. Each method of access takes you to a different Text Message interface, each with a different look and feel. Why would anyone design it like that? Just take me to my Text Message inbox, maybe with the latest message highlighted, regardless of which button I pressed to get there. Truly bizarre.
- The Home screen has the dumbest "flip" clock. And it always flips to the new time, even if you just visited the home screen - it will re-set to a time 1 hour and 2 minutes ago JUST so that it can do its stupid flip animation.
- You can customize which Home Screen Tabs appear along the bottom of the Home screen. If you have the Weather Tab, you can touch it to access current weather conditions. You can also access the weather conditions by touching the weather information just below the stupid flip clock. Ok, great, so I can remove that Tab, save the space, and access weather info from the main screen, right? WRONG. Remove the tab and touching the weather info no longer takes you to the weather report. The button still seems to function, but nothing happens. Again, bizarre.
- Thus far the Sprint Store has been completely unable to transfer my contacts from my old phone onto this one. (The htc phone is the problem, not the old phone.)
This phone is extremely frustrating to use. Pick another one. -
"Heavy, Tough, Style, Expansive, Powerful, Multi-task" on by devilmagic
Pros: Awesome mobile device, great plans offered by Sprint. the phone feels tough, slide-out keyboard is one of the best i've used. HD / huge display great for HD videos/gaming. Looking forward for the Window 6.5 Upgrade for this powerful device.
Cons: Heavy/Bulky, Expensive phone ($350 w/2-yr contract or price anywhere $700-1,000 w/o contracts. The phone is little bit laggy (hope 6.5 wm will give a speed boost)
Summary: Definitely the best window mobile device by far! go get it!
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