I have one of those thingies, first it is a really nice phone, if you dont mind not having gps, or umts, the phone is small the touchflo once you are used to the needed guestures works as it should. The downside, the touchflo interface is almost non configurable, you have 5 small areas which you can fill with your own program presets, the second downside, you run constantly into wince, touchflow is a combination of wince program starter and a handful of applets and programs on its own, in about 60% of all day to day cases you run into windows ce programs where you have to pull the stylus, mainly the video player and normal phone works without it, as soon as you hit sms, you have to pull the stylus.
As for memory and slowing down, true, due to windowsces idotic program management, fortunately you can turn on that a press on the x will close the programs instead of hiding it, so that is a non issue, once you have figured that out, but one thing htc screwed up here is, that the X still is in its original wince size, making it hard to hit without a stylus.
Overall a nice phone, really small and with a long lasting battery, but dont expect any extraordinary usability, this is just wince with a nice program starter frontend and 2-3 adjusted programs.
I hope HTC improves the touchflo a little bit, it definitely has potential.
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I have one of those thingies, first it is a really nice phone, if you dont mind not having gps, or umts, the phone is small the touchflo once you are used to the needed guestures works as it should.
The downside, the touchflo interface is almost non configurable, you have 5 small areas which you can fill with your own program presets, the second downside, you run constantly into wince, touchflow is a combination of wince program starter and a handful of applets and programs on its own, in about 60% of all day to day cases you run into windows ce programs where you have to pull the stylus, mainly the video player and normal phone works without it, as soon as you hit sms, you have to pull the stylus.
As for memory and slowing down, true, due to windowsces idotic program management, fortunately you can turn on that a press on the x will close the programs instead of hiding it, so that is a non issue, once you have figured that out, but one thing htc screwed up here is, that the X still is in its original wince size, making it hard to hit without a stylus.
Overall a nice phone, really small and with a long lasting battery, but dont expect any extraordinary usability, this is just wince with a nice program starter frontend and 2-3 adjusted programs.
I hope HTC improves the touchflo a little bit, it definitely has potential.