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Originally Posted by quick99si
I was at a BBQ sometime in June and a few of us put our phones on the wooden deck railing. There were 6 TP2's side by side on 3 different carriers.
The same group of friends was recently together and I noticed that we were down to one Touch Pro 2. The overwhelming sentiment was that the new devices, all running Android OS, were a significant improvement over the TP2.
The last TP2 is mine, and it continues to be mine after having tried the Epic for a couple of weeks. So from that anecdote, I'm inclined to conclude that the newer devices are better for some and not for others (or at least me). It remains unfortunate that this concept is difficult to grasp for some people, and even moreso that these same people feel compelled to sway the opinion of the masses with their tiny slice of bias-reinforcing experience.
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the only reason it's not better for you is because you're on SERO, and not ready to bite the bullet. There are plenty of people in your boat, and I being one of them, since I have a lot of bills, and dont like to justify a price increase on anything (I'm pretty damn frugal).
But there was a turning point when my phone failed on critical instances. I am privileged to work anywhere I want, and when my phone started to fail when my boss contacts me, that's pretty huge since I occasionally deal with mission critical server issues.
there is no question there are better phones out there that trump the tp2 in almost every single way, like the iphone 4. If the iphone 4 were available on sprint(and sero users) @ the same price as the tp2, I'm positive it would sell at a ratio of 100 to 1 compared to the tp2.
a biased reinforced opinion doesnt necessarily mean it's wrong btw. For you, the TP2 is the best phone out, and you have no choice but to stick with it.
saying that the tp2 vs android vs apple debate is subjective is a little misleading.
Here is a more simplistic analogy: who is hotter? Sarah Jessica Parker(TP2) vs Candice Swanepoel (Android) or alessandra ambrosio(Apple)... the only reason you would care for parker is because she's loaded.
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Originally Posted by vonnieglen
I guess you could say that I am a slow adopter. I purchased a PPC-6700, a Samsung a920 and a Samsung a-900 when they first came out. They have served us well. We have a fair and flexible family plan with free unlimited 3g data and a 20% employee discount. With all taxes included our bill for the three phones comes to about $90 a month. We usually don't, but if we go over our 800 minutes Sprint charges $5 and adds a 100 minutes. After we get to 1100 minutes Sprint charges $5 and adds 200 minutes. The plan fits us very well.
I am still happy with the PPC-6700... it came with a data cable and sprint technical support originally told me how to tether. I have had a lot of fun using the kitchen to modifying it and getting it set up the way that I like. It is fun to have a five year old PPC that I can do more with than many people can with their new phones.
I probably would not be upgrading but my wife decided she wanted an upgrade to her A-900 after she knocked it out the car door and drug it two blocks by it's charger cord. It still works fine but it is looking pretty ragged. We went to the Sprint store and discovered that the best phone we could get and still keep our fair and flexible plan was the TP2. I can't justify adding an extra $60, $70 or more a month to our family budget for a couple of EVOs. We bought a couple of TP2s on Ebay (I am still keeping my A-920 for my beater phone). I am studying the forums for customization tips. This has been a very entertaining thread for me. We are very excited waiting for our TP2s to show up. One person's obsolete phone can be another person's dream phone I guess.
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you're a slow adopter. The tp2 is around 150 used, but I wouldnt be so fast to get it if the ppc 6700 works for you. I have a ppc 6700, and I've fiddled with it. Fairly responsive minus the eye candy and some apps. if you dont care for all the social apps and integration, and care only about a functional phone with emails and text, the 6700 might be the way to go. the lightweight interface keeps it snappy, where the tp2 gets kinda laggy.
It was a downgrade for me, upgrading from a motorola q9c. Constant tweaks to get this thing up to the stability of the q9c, which wasnt very stable to start with. I had lowered expectations moving from one WM os to the other. I understand that price is a factor in moving towards modern devices, hence my wife is using a feature phone on sero...... I've encouraged her to stick with it, rather than to have major frustrations most wm users have.
I'm in another country and using a sim card, so I had to use my pair of iphones. It's my wife's first time using it, and she's fine with it. It gets the WAF(wife approval factor) award. If I gave her the tp2, she'd probably have switched to a feature phone.
ultimately, you will have a modern looking device, that does not quite live up to modern phone standards, and compares quite poorly in comparison. Not much of an upgrade from your ppc 6700.