http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/ Engadget Comments for HTC Touch Pro2 unboxed with tempered excitement http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
The Pre and the Omnia HD/i8910/whatever wonderfully demonstrate the advantage with coupling great physical/feature hardware with computing hardware that can keep up.]]>May 29th 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
While it all depends on what you use, I am infinitely more concerned with their complete disregard for a headphone jack. Cellphones and MP3 players are merging FAST. If they don't start throwing them in there, they'll just lose out to the iPhone even more. Even to the business users.]]>May 29th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
@dsteve303: Battery life/power consumption vs. performance gained makes remarkable leaps and bounds every time there's innovations and improvements in CPU architecture such as the jump from Pentium 4 to Core 2 or in the case of mobile devices, ARM11 to A8-Cortex.

At least, that's what I've gathered thus far.]]>May 29th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/ lame engadget trolls]]>May 29th 2009 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
These morons still haven't learned to put a HEADPHONE JACK on their phones.]]>May 31st 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
Does android even have it's own versions of these programs? I see everyone clamoring about how great android is, but no one has said why or how they use it that is better then WinMo or S60 or anything else. I'm sure its great for using gmail and google maps, but what about all of the other functions people need? WinMo never had a microsoft licensed app store, but anything I could ever want or ask for I've always been able to find from numerous vendors. ]]>May 29th 2009 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
Well, because by now, WinMo is becoming very fast the scourge OS of mobile phones. Android is the only one of the most modern and efficient operating systems for mobile phones that is not integrated with a particular hardware platform. In other words, other makers own both the OS and the hardware and integration is as follows:

Blackberry OS: with Blackberry phones
Web OS : with the Pre
Symbian: with Nokia smart phones
OS X: with the iPhone/iPod Touch

This means that, while they are very modern and efficient, none of the operating systems above can be installed on 3rd party handsets like HTCs. That leaves Android in the unique position of being able to directly compete with WinMo.

HTC produces quality hardware and adopting Android as its OS foundation would enable it to gain the same inherent competitive advantages that come from being able to control both software and hardware sides. That is, being able to innovate and advance the platform, identify and correct problems, fix them faster, maintain higher standards of quality control and so on. There is an economic advantage as well since they wouldn't have to pay anyone a license fee to use Android. It would cost HTC less to produce handsets and they could use that money to improve on the aforementioned points.

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]]>May 30th 2009 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
You're right, except for Symbian. C.f. SonyEricsson, LG etc.]]>May 30th 2009 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 30th 2009 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 30th 2009 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 30th 2009 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
I'd say there's a 50/50 chance you won't see wifi in their version.]]>May 29th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
But bashing is so much more fun...]]>May 29th 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
lol.]]>May 29th 2009 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 30th 2009 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/Do you know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?]]>May 30th 2009 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
Please tell me that wasn't a euphemism.]]>May 30th 2009 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66VdgfyO4o]]>May 29th 2009 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
Seriously.]]>May 29th 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
and yes, I remembered all of those from memory.

Please correct it?]]>May 29th 2009 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/i am fainting]]>May 29th 2009 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
I'll wait for WinMo 7/Android and a 3.5mm audio jack.]]>May 29th 2009 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/May 29th 2009 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/29/htc-touch-pro2-unboxed-with-tempered-excitement/
This phone has the same hardware and OS as the Touch Pro except for a welcomed larger tilting screen. As I've said, I had the HTC Fuze. TouchFlo3D on top of WinMo 6.1 wasn't fluid enough for me. Yes it'll get WinMo6.5... eventually... but it's only a "patch" to WinMo 6.1 which I got tired of constantly tweaking. Every XDA ROM had their quirks and it became too much work tweaking my phone. I wish they'd release the same phone with Android on it as an option.

Is it because the hardware isn't fast enough? Is it the OS? Lack of drivers like the Kaiser? Doesn't matter... as an end user it didn't get the job done for me.

I'm much more impressed with the Samsung i7500: Modern OS, modern screen technology, 5MP camera, 3.5mm audio jack.]]>May 29th 2009 11:18PM