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Originally Posted by tgmuhammad

Well, for me, the screen is a big plus, because I'm a graphic designer and I keep some of my work on my phone as a kind of little porfolio. So, the larger screen will help show better detail in my work.

However, it's not just the screen or 3.5 mm jack that makes me want this phone. I also like the new speaker phone and the conference calling feature. Even though you can do conference calling on any cell phone, the feature they have on this phone makes it a lot easier by just being able to check off the contacts that you'd like to add to the call.

I'm also in love with the new keyboard. I'm a very heavy email and sms user from my phone, so I am definitely all for a phone with a keyboard that will help me to be able to get messages out even faster.

Lastly, I also like the fact that htc is starting to cover up more of the windows mobile interface with the manila. It's so much sleeker. Hey, what can I say... I'm a visual person...

Originally Posted by orangekid

The conference calling deal, as well as manila (tf3d2) can be ported to a touch pro, and any really good rom I would think would emulate the "smoothness"

There are already ports of the touchflo on the diamond2 and the pro2 available, any software issue you have can be put on a pro1. The screen and 3.5mm is the only difference I see.

The instinct/iphone analagy isn't really a good one, a better analogy would be from a 3g to a 3gs, which is basically no difference.

But I don't wanna hate, its your money, your choice, your preference and it is a new phone with a wicked screen size/resolution. I don't like external keyboards which is why I have a diamond, but if that's a big deal then I can totally see the appeal, I guess my latent frustration at how easy it would have been to put a better processor and a better ui than just tweaking tf3d, especially when 6.5 is around the bend is coming out, maybe if I actually got one I'd feel differently.

ok people lets get this straight, you will not be able to conference in more then 2 people. that feature will only work with gsm models. Sprint is not changing its whole network for the feature of 1 phone, so don't be surprised when you can still only conference in 2 people and no more. the thing where you select 5 numbers then your phone calls them all and conferences them in will not work on any cdma network.