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1. Opera - this is almost an exercise in futility. Trying to click on a link, access a field to enter data, is almost impossible, with my finger, stylus, and even when zoomed in. And speaking of zooming in, the zoom bar is flakey at best. Sometimes it works, sometimes if I slide it a few mm to the right of the bar it works, and mostly it doesn't work at all.
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You need to calibrate the screen and to be honest the TP2 comes setup brutally bad (compared to the Imagio). Install advanced config or a registry editor to set the touch screen to light sensitivity (bypassing the screen configuration which is incomplete)
screen make ligher touch. go way down closer to 0 to start
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\TouchPanel\PressureThre shold
The lower the number the lighter you have to press on your screen [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\TFLOSettings]
PressureThreshold
FingerPressure
Opera9.x is quite slow (renders full web and sucks bandwidth) so install Mini5beta2 and first a 2009 version of Esmertec Jbed. Mortscript & jzsmartmort also are a great combo. Mini 5 beta2 should be your default browser. Use Large fonts in Mini (they're still small but clickable). I use Middle of the slider bar font size in windows mobile setup
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2. Touchscreen itself - I also find this very hit and miss. Even when there are large settings icons present, activating those icons is yet more frustration. Sometimes extreme pressure is required to get a response, other times a simple touch will do. I've done a Calibration, but still no joy. Again, am I expecting too much? My TX touchscreen was much more consistent and responsive.
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see above the touchscreen, as configured out of box invites returns. Once setup, after a day it works GREAT. really.
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3. User Interface - I found the TouchFlo3D to get in the way, and figured out where to turn it off. So I have the "Today" screen active, but I am very limited in what items I can put there. Why not links to Email, whatever Program I want, etc.?? What better more customizeable options are there for the UI? Again, with my TX, I had a single page of "Favorite" links. A hard button brought me there, and I had immediate access to more than 2 dozen programs on a single screen, no scrolling required.
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You want Rhodium keyboard config (google it sorry) to setup your keyboard settings per key.
On the TP2 however i highly recommend Mobile Shell 3.5 and not TF3D as it's too clumsy for the 4 face buttons imho.
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4. Contacts - I haven't entered many, but there seems no way to show them by Category. Again on my TX, if I went to my Contact List, I could select a Category by a drop-down list, and show only those Contacts in that particular Category. Is that an option on the TP2? It might be there and I haven't discovered it yet.
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not sure about this i use favorites.
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5. Also when selecting Ringtones or Wallpaper - there doesn't seem to be a way to have the Ringtones autoplay as I select them to try them out. I have to select it, hit Play, and if I don't like it, have to drop down the list, try another, rinse and repeat. Any other phone I or a family member has ever had will just play the dang ringtone as I scrolled the list. Same with the Wallpaper - there's a list, with no graphics, no way to preview it or see what the heck it is. Just select it, go to the Today screen, and see what it looks like. What the heck??
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you can play them while selecting them
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That's about it for now. There are other matters, but these are the biggies so far, and unless I can figure out ways to get this thing working more consistently and efficiently, as hard as it is for me to believe it, I may have to return it.
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I was pretty frustrated by the screen setup (requiring way too much pressure) and sloooow Opera9 (coming from Opera mini4 as my primary browser) but all this is fixable and HTC/Microsoft should listen to such feedback to allow a simple "TOUCH SCREEN" basic startup screen not with the silly crosshairs but simple "i want to touch very lightly to click" type responses. good luck.