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Originally Posted by Tiberius85
I have been using this phone for about a month, coming from a Diamond on Sprint, and before that a Mogul. The Mogul to Diamond transition was huge and the improvements were many and throughout. After using the TP2 I just feel... underwhelmed. Im not impressed with it, for its progress over the last generation. It might as well be considered a half a generation leap that took a generation. We still have crap resistive screens, the same long in the tooth clunky qualcomm processors, and before you say anything, 6.5 is underwhelming as well. Needless to say, if it werent for my work requiring me to run this wm app, i would have switched to the Hero and Android. Hell the only bright spot in microsoft's mobile is the Zune HD which is just a glorious package. Think about it.. the wvga screen is the only real improvement from the past. The tilt had the tilting screen, the touch pro had the same amount of ram, rom, and processor. Its just half hearted... a stopgap. And i hope the HD2 isnt the future of their phone designs.. I guess what irks me the most is i knew it was a stopgap by its its name... yet they charged more money for this thing than any of their smartphones in the past. im just  ed with it, but i have to live with it at least for another 6 months. If wm doesnt improve to 7 by then and we have another year of this crappy bondo upgrade, im writting them off completely. Any one else feel the same or am i just the exception? |
Well the Mogul to Diamond upgrade was so huge because Sprint skipped a generation.
When the Kaiser came out, Sprint didn't get a version. They stuck with the older generation, which was the Mogul.
So the Touch Pro was supposed to be the next generation/upgrade for the Kaiser generation of hardware. If you came from a Mogul, that is why th eupgrade was so huge.
Imagine if you upgraded to the Touch Pro 2 from the Sprint Touch. That would be a pretty significant upgrade, right?
The Tilt (Kaiser) has a TIlting screen, but the Touch Pro 2 is way better in every imaginable way.
As for what the Touch Pro, well the Touch Pro 2 has a bigger screen, better resolution, better screen (more touch sensitive), tilting screen, way better keyboard, awesome speakerphone that you can actually hear (and the caller can hear you in the same quality as if you were not on a speaker phone), awesome conference calling (too bad the CDMA version doesn't have it), Facebook integrated into contacts so you can easily get everyone's picture and birthday, and on the CDMA versions it has a 3.5mm jack.
Looks like a pretty significant upgrade to me. In fact, the only thing it has in common with the Touch Pro is the CPU and RAM- everything else is upgraded.