My tilt is definitely showing its age...

Sure, maybe HTC didn't explicitly advertise: "hardware graphics acceleration for smoother on-screen performance." But what if you bought a PC, it said it had a nvidia 8800 ultra in it, then you started it up and there was no driver support for it? You contact NVIDIA, and they refuse to provide support for that model of computer. Yeah, the PC never was advertised as a gaming PC with extreme graphical hardware, but it's in there, and you paid for it. You want the support you know they can give you but aren't.

I carry a $700 AT&T Tilt (Tytn II). But my last phone, a falling apart HTC Magician that lacked even WiFi had a smoother GUI, smoother camera performance, and better video playback. And the magician was a late-2004 product.

The point is that we, i.e. Tytn II owners, have paid big bucks for a device we were told would do a lot of things. It does them, but many of them very poorly as a direct product of the lack of video hardware support. It HAS a camera, but it's barely useable. It CAN play video, but only very low quality video. It HAS a fold out keyboard, but I have to wait 5 seconds when I open it for the device to calm down from switching screen orientation. It HAS a wide range of connectivity and communications abilities, but I have to soft reset the device three times a day when multitasking. You don't buy a 1080p TV expecting it to take 10 minutes to turn on or change inputs, and you don't buy a $700 business class PDA expecting it to cost you more time than it saves. When you pay this much money for a product, it's reasonable to expect above-par treatment from the producer - it's paying for a room at the Ritz and getting a nice room with Budget Inn service.

This is exactly the reason why so many business environments have avoided Windows Mobile in favor of Blackberry. Blackberry works; Windows Mobile... meh. The devices may have more potential, but they're very much a gamble, something some people just can't afford when it comes to the tools they use to make their livings.

Windows Mobile Photon, maybe?

Charter has added a few of the new HD channels (mostly that upsampled stretched mess), but no TBS yet.

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I love my i-mate jam but an upgrade can never hurt.