Yea i had that phone before i went with my iphone. I miss things about it. It certainly was not as bad as Iphone evangalists make it out to be. :)
But when i did the #'s the ATT iphone plan only turned out to be $10 bucks more for unlimited then sprint. But i find that EVDO-A (CDMA) is alot faster then ATT 3G (gsm) at least from personal feel. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Jim Davis <hofli...@depressedpress.com>wrote: > > Well - "Broke down" isn't exactly the right term. With the new position I > need to be on-call, spend significant time (often 40 hours or more a week) > on conference calls and the company offered to pay the monthly bill. > > So I did some research and ended up with the HTC Touch Pro from Sprint. > Windows Mobile 6.1 (I've been a pocket PC fan for years) and Sprint's > unlimited data plan. Adding a 16 Gig MicroSD card means that this little > bugger now replaces my aged PocketPC, my crappy pay-as-you-go phone and my > Sansa Media player while also giving me wireless networking, a decent (for > a > phone) camera (3.2mp) and a full-featured GPS. > > So far I love it. The phone has a slide out QWERTY keyboard (which is > remarkably usable) so it's thicker than many, but it's smaller > (heightxwidth) than many as well - only slightly larger, in fact, than my > crappy pay-as-you virgin mobile phone. The screen is smaller than my old > Pocket PC but the higher resolution (640x480 compared to 320x240) means > that > it's absolutely crystal clear even at absurdly small text sizes. > > Battery life is meh... you definitely need to charge daily. But running > Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and EVDO at the same time on such a small device (with a > correspondingly small battery) will do that. I'm loving have persistent > IM, > automated email and RSS pushes on my phone so charging daily seems a small > price to pay. > > The unlimited data plan really makes a difference - and even here in > Scranton performance is good. I can stream TV shows/video (using the > "Sprint TV" app), music, podcasts, etc all day if I want and no bullshit. > Sprint's plans are actually pretty reasonable as well - unlimited data and > 450 minutes of talk (with free nights starting at 7pm and free weekends) is > $70/month. My company gets a 20% discount off of that so even if they > weren't paying the bill I'd still consider it reasonable. > > As per my usual I spent the first few days removing all the crap - HTC puts > a very attractive, but (to me) ultimately annoying veneer over their phones > called "TouchFlo 3D". It's more chrome than steel and although it does > (mostly) work I took an instant disliking to it. I prefer the boring, but > IMHO much more usable native Windows Mobile interace. There are few things > I can't figure out how to ditch (yet) like the HTC camera application and > input selection screen, but nearly everything is stock WinMo now. > > The screen (like all touch Windows Mobile devices) is resistive - which > means no fancy multi-touch but which also means you CAN use a stylus (which > I prefer). Truth be told the primary use my handhelds get is doing > crossword puzzles and a stylus (and decent handwriting recognition, which > this has) is essential. It's nicely responsive to both touch and stylus > and, as I said, absolutely gorgeous. The default setting adjusts the > screen > for ambient light and works brilliantly (I was happily able to use the > device in direct sunlight). > > Of course the on-board stylus, like all others, is crap but useful when > you're in a hurry. One annoyance is that the device only has one port - an > "extended" mini-usb port. Although you can use standard mini-usb cables to > charge and sync the device extended plugs/devices (which add a few extra > pins) allow you to use headphones/wired headsets, etc. Although it comes > with a decent set of headphones with the special plug you need an adapter > to > use a standard set or to do more than one function at a time. > > The device comes with a small (about the size of a largish thumb drive) > "hub" which plugs in and gives you a sync port, a charge port and two > headphone/headset jacks... but it's not really "pocket comfortable". Of > course it supports stereo Bluetooth so, once those come down in price, I'll > probably wander in that direction anyway. > > The phone quality is clear and loud although the device is a little > uncomfortable to hold against your head - although once I get a wireless > headset that won't matter much. > > Overall I love the phone and REALLY love carrying one thing in my pocket as > opposed to three. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292660 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
