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Old 11-22-2009, 06:17 PM
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Re: From Touch Pro to Moment?

I switched from a TP to the Moment just over a week ago. I have to say that I was very scared to make the transition. I have been a WM user since my HP IPAQ bought in 2003. I have owned the i730, i760 and TP to name a few.

I can tell you that the Moment and Android continue to amaze me every day. It's been over a week and I am still excited about the possibilities and wowed by how easy some things are to accomplish.

As an IT professional I rely on my phone when I am out of the office. I did quite a bit of research before making the switch to make sure the Android could do what I want. My absolute requirements were: Web browsing, Remote Desktop, ActiveSync Exchange Sync and Push, Tethering, Word/Excel Editing and txt msg. The Moment does all of this easily. In fact the only apps I had to purchase was Documents2Go for the Office documents and PDANet for tethering. I do miss WifiRouter, but I used it with a USB cable anyway just to keep the device charged so Im not missing much.

To answer the previous queston. Yes the Moment comes with a very capable Exchange client called Moxier Mail. I tried the other two popular Exchange clients you can purchase: RoadSync and TouchDown and I ended up going back to Moxier for several of my own quirky reasons. RoadRunner is really nice it just wouldn't allow a custom From address to be entered. Moxier will provide ActiveSync Push for Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Notes.

Your original question really does depend on what you do with your device. For me it did everything the TP did and more, but I don't really care about Nuance.

The only two gripes are the same as most. Both of which I hope will be fixed in an update soon:
1) The battery meter is way off (the phone still lasts a long time, but the meter thinks it is way lower than it is). This can be helped through several days of cycling the battery guage.

2) GPS is way off. It is worth pointing out that the TP GPS was off (laggy) by almost as much anyway.

And, yeah it would be nice to have Flash. But remember the TP didn't inherently have flash either so maybe I just haven't found the app for the Moment that gives us flash.

Richard

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