Regarding the Titan, it seems amost too big. It sounds like you like it.
They just opened a ginormous AT&T store near my house and I want to go take a look. I'm not unahppy with the Trophy, but like most people, I'm looking for more choices. Too bad Verizon is so far behind.
feels lighter than the trophy in hand (as per 3-4 trophy users doing a direct comparison). 0.7 ounces heavier but better weight distribution, thinner (0.39" vs 0.47") and slightly larger but not much. Barely larger than the Focus or older HD2/7 and smaller than bulky droid moto phones with the uneven weight and flashump..
Trophy is a great phone but Verizon is out of touch. Trophy was released Oct 2010 overseas and verizon customers DESERVE other options and mango devices with front-facing cameras. Larger screen WP7 devices obviously) as well as smaller ones i.e. like nokia lumia 800 or htc radar even.
I feel sorry for those stuck on, locked in or unable (due to horrible coverage elsewhere) to leave verizon.
ChicagoVZUser wrote:Regarding the Titan, it seems amost too big. It sounds like you like it.
They just opened a ginormous AT&T store near my house and I want to go take a look. I'm not unahppy with the Trophy, but like most people, I'm looking for more choices. Too bad Verizon is so far behind.
Well, I wouldn't call it good hardware to have the backlight switch get so it had to be pushed multiple times to get it to come on after 8-9 mo & it got worse.
Not sure if the problem with it randomly switching from portrait to landscape & back was hardware or software, but that was really maddening. I think that cropped up after about 14 mo, give or take.
I actually liked the HTC interface generally much better than what I have on the Fathom..
I'm not the kind of person to get a new phone every year or more often. I read some of the comments about people already being on their 3rd android phone & I'm thinking, I don't know if they are just jumping on the newest thing or if they malfunctioned, but when I purchased the TP2 I was expecting to keep it for awhile--maybe 3 yrs or so. I paid extra for that phone with the keyboard. If I had known that it woudln't hold up, I probably would have gone for a cheaper phone. I think the Samsung Omnia 2 was less expensive or maybe even free when I got my phone.
of course I also didn't expect Win 6,5 to become outdated so soon, both because of Win Phone 7 coming out & also our co switching to web based aps & starting to supporting iPad & iPhone.
I was reading reviews at the time I was looking to replace the phone & by then the TP2 had been discontinued. I did find out at the last min that I could have gotten an Imagio but I wanted a physical keyboard. As I recall, there were a bunch of others who had problems with the TP2.
For me, I like the nice features, but I want a reliable smart phone that is easy to use. After my experiences with both HTC & LG win mob smart phones, I don't want to try any more of them. I don't like spending so much time with tech support & I spent many hours dealing with issues with the phones. Hours I could have been doing something else.
I feel ripped off by having paid for a top of the line phone that was nice & had cool features, but it had that horrible day light savings time problem that I never did get any straight answers about why & no sense that it should be fixed so that customers who paid for a smart phone would have pda functions work properly.
I think both the TP2 & the Fathom have about the same amount of built in memory. It was enough for what I was doing since I got an 8 gb card & used that for most everything that I could.
So now, I want a smart phone that is reliable & works well. It would be nice to actually browse the web & other things that iPhones seem to do ok, but that the win mobile phones were too slow to really do much of that. & now there are several aps that I might be interested in getting & the aps I might be interested in seem to all be for either iPhone or Android. I have no desire either to stay with Windows.
Personally, I love the Trophy, though I do wish VZW would get better hardware. I'm loooking for them to carry the Lumia 900, but we'll see...
When it comes to recommending the phone to friends, I of course try to sell them on Windows Phone, but in the end, we all have different tastes, and at this point it really does come down to taste. iPhone or Windows Phone, to me, are on a level playing field. If you like animations go with iPhone. If you like clean design, glance and go, go with Windows Phone. But at all costs, do not go Android.
I have been telling friends for six months or more, "Beware of your Android - it will bite you." Now it's all coming to a head in the media. Android is just plain insecure.
And since I love WP, I would be remiss in not including:
And for your friends who have Androids or iPhones, send them to this link to demo Windows Phone on their own phones. It will NOT work in a Windows Phone, but trust me, it is a good tool.
smartphones of 2 years ago don't last 2 years. as such the TP2 (shipped spring 2009) can't be held against HTC, especially when Verizon crippled it with RAM requirements, etc. VZW gimped the imagio (vzw exclusively 11/2009 launch) worse to save a few pennies.
new smartphones with the right software like WP7 (and hw mimimum standards) for example have a longer shelf life.
Premier Droid phones of 2 years ago like Moto Droid are laughable now 2 years later.
Rich, do you work for MS?
I mentioned 4G and, as a more minor issue, dual core earlier. Some of you jumped on the dual core but didn't mention 4G, which was the main deal breaker for me. So 'nuff said about 4G I guess.
Now about dual core, all the performance arguments are simply lame excuses to me. I as a consumer want the choice. The OEMs have the hardware, just not MS's support. Personally, I would trade battery life for a 0.1s increase in performance and 720p resolution any day. MS saying the hw doesn't matter is an excuse for its slow execution.
The real reason sounds like MS is too slow to develop for dual core. I work in Silicon Valley and MS is one of the slower moving juggernaughts. They can only hire 2nd rate programmers and new grads, who may be top rate but not top performers as they ramp up and who will jump ship as soon as they have some resume fodder.
I hope WP has LTE and up to date hardware for my next upgrade in 20 months, or that Android will get more Metro-like apps and launchers. LTE will probably be around for a long time so it's too much to give up this time around. We all have to make trade-offs.
haysouse1 wrote:Rich, do you work for MS?
No, I do not (though my wife says they should be paying me for selling phones). I am a developer at a bank.
I'm still waiting..........only 1 mid-range phone after a whole year? Ridiculous.
My contract is up in a few months, moving my wife and entire family to somewhere where I can get a HTC Titan or similar.
Rich, about those security links, Android just got a vote of confidence from the DOD:
http://www.stripes.com/news/android-to-be-approved-for-dod-use-within-weeks-1.162952
I hope this spurs MS to pick up the pace.
haysouse wrote:Rich, about those security links, Android just got a vote of confidence from the DOD:
http://www.stripes.com/news/android-to-be-approved-for-dod-use-within-weeks-1.162952
I hope this spurs MS to pick up the pace.
smh....
Two words. Military. Intelligence. They have no business in the same sentence
Rich
Former USN
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