HTC Touch Pro2 - For the Professionals

[Dr.Vijay]

Pro choice, or pro life? Either way, the new HTC Touch Pro2 will be pro in every aspect of your work and personal life. Armed with a slew of updates from its predecessor, we give you the full details on what you can expect out of this new highly anticipated Windows mobile device from HTC:-

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...cid=24&id=2933

[wind79]

Can you compare with more relevant and recent competitors? Like the Touch HD? Which is better?

[Da-vid]

It says TP2 is 16.65 mm thick on the first page, but on the second page it says 17.25 mm.

[teinhee]

Originally Posted by wind79

Can you compare with more relevant and recent competitors? Like the Touch HD? Which is better?

Hi Wind79,

Which aspect would you like to compare? We were looking more of the old and new Touch Pro, and similarly placed products such as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1.

As to whether the Touch HD or Touch Pro2 is better, we can give you a quick summary of each device's benefits:

HTC Touch Pro2

Great keyboard
Good conference call features
Comfortable screen size

HTC Touch HD
Large 3.8-inch WVGA screen with 800 x 480 resolution, good for movies on the move
Adequate room for touch navigation
Slimmer in comparison to the Touch Pro2

It's more of whether you're comfortable with the sizes of both devices. But we can tell you that the Touch Pro2 takes up more space as compared to the Touch HD.

Cheers!

[teinhee]

Originally Posted by Da-vid

It says TP2 is 16.65 mm thick on the first page, but on the second page it says 17.25 mm.

Hi Da-vid,

Thanks for pointing it out! The specifications on the first page is the correct one, apologies for the confusion.

Cheers!

[wind79]

Originally Posted by teinhee

Which aspect would you like to compare? We were looking more of the old and new Touch Pro, and similarly placed products such as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1.

I think comparing the old Touch Pro with the Touch Pro 2 is not really required since most people will by default assume the new one is better, question is how much better.

It may probably be more useful to us consumers to compare phones which are currently being offered, such as its direct competitors like the Touch HD which seems to be of similar specifications, price and same OS. How about a comparison between video playback of higher quality video clips? Speaker phone sound clarity and quality? Default memory utilization when the phone just started without running any applications? Are there different softwares or applications offered that might tilt the balance of purchasing one phone over the other? Lastly, which phone offers more value for money given the current price?

Sorry if I gave too much irrelevant suggestions, but I find a couple of recent reviews not in sync with what consumers like myself really like to know.

[teinhee]

Yo,

Sorry about the late reply, been busy due to CommunicAsia 2009!

Anyway, I'm glad that you brought up these points. We are always in the midst of refining our testing methods to fit the needs of our readers. To that extent, we're more than glad to know that what you would like to see in our reviews.

We'll take note of things such as the speaker phone clarity and the memory utilization. Of course, pre-loaded softwares will be the tipping point since we are now faced with multiple application stores trying to grab a piece of the pie.

One thing about the video testing though: we test our batteries based on video resolutions of 240 x 320, seeing as how this is the minimum resolution used on most phones in the market. There are times when we actually tinker with a higher quality video at 800 x 480, i.e. WVGA resolutions, to check out the quality and to also test its power efficiency. But for comparison purposes, we stick to the 240 x 320 video test. We could include a short mention of the video quality such as any visible frame rates lost during faster moving scenes.

Thanks for the suggestions, cheers!

Originally Posted by wind79

I think comparing the old Touch Pro with the Touch Pro 2 is not really required since most people will by default assume the new one is better, question is how much better.

It may probably be more useful to us consumers to compare phones which are currently being offered, such as its direct competitors like the Touch HD which seems to be of similar specifications, price and same OS. How about a comparison between video playback of higher quality video clips? Speaker phone sound clarity and quality? Default memory utilization when the phone just started without running any applications? Are there different softwares or applications offered that might tilt the balance of purchasing one phone over the other? Lastly, which phone offers more value for money given the current price?

Sorry if I gave too much irrelevant suggestions, but I find a couple of recent reviews not in sync with what consumers like myself really like to know.

[wind79]

No problem, I am doing a proposal on business and consumer analysis for a client recently and it gave me quite an insight on consumer mentality. Will give out more suggestions in the future if anything comes to my mind.