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By Joseph Hanlon, CNET.com.au on 23 January 2009 03:49 PM
1 2 One word - iPhone.
that is all.
HTC user for 3 years and this is the best HTC phone - better than the iphone / love the stylus - easier to write than type but then that is a personal choice after using devices with a letter recognising feature / screen is amazing, good resolution - good for navigation with clear maps (using tomtom 7) / carry around important word and excel documents in your pocket and has a cut and paste function / text conversations on screen and can send photographs (MMS) / 3.5mm jack and can listen to the radio at work or home while working away at my computer - what more could you want?
But one question, I thought the Touch HD didn't do 3G on the 850 MHz bank Telstra's NextG network uses? Has this been changed (a separate version for Australia)?
The good: I agree, it appears to be the best HTC phone, and a great Windows Mobile device.
The bad: Lack of 850 MHz NextG support was a negative for me, but if that's been fixed, great. Why doesn't Windows Mobile make a sound when a call drops out?
Being a current owner of both iPhone and X7501, this one seems to have found the right balance between form and function. WinMO is still far behind iPhone as far as usability is concerned but then again iPhone does not make a good case for techies. But WOW, 1500$... That is a deal breaker for me. I'll keep my iPhone instead. WinMO does have a choice of GPS apps though.
The good: Screen Size. Resolution. Form Factor. Connectivity. GPS....
The bad: Price. Price. Price. WinMO. Camera.
Just bought one direct from Telstra (not via a shop). They cut $500 off price. Good deal!
The good: Best smartphone yet. Love the screen and battery life. Patches from HTC website fix most lags.
The bad: No GPS software included.
Brilliant. Just got it last week, and love it. Way better than my crappy Apple I-phone. What is the point of having a machine that can read MS Office files but cant edit. This makes the apple seem a generation behind!
The good: Everything!
The bad: Cost!
I have been using windows mobile for 4 years and I will continue using it. I should say that I am surprised by the fact there are so many softwares on windows mobile platform.
I used Touch HD for a couple of days and quite satified with it,
except for the fact that I have few options of hardware buttons.
I finally get around this by using this little app - Rosseta TaskMgr. It's an accelerometer-enabled task manger which let you shake your phone to switch between tasks and desktops.
It can be downloaded from www.rossetamobile.com.
Also I don't like the built-in today plugin so I disabled it and just use the plain original windows mobile today. This solved all the freeze fuss amazingly.
When it comes to GPS, I use google maps. It's a free and wonderful application. I also tried many other apps but finally come back to my lovely google maps. It doesn't have many seemed shining but useless functions. It's down to earth and meet most of the daily needs.
After all, Touch HD is a wonderful phone which takes some tuning to be perfect. This is actually a fun for geeks like me.
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HTC need to give up on WinMo, there is only so long you can lipstick a pig - of course you can throw a ginormous battery and CPU at it, and then you get a $1500 price tag - and even so, there is noticable lag.
The good: Still trying to think of one.
The bad: Price, WinMobile, performance