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Re: Touch Pro Reviews

Yea, personally, I am thinking I may just stick with the Tilt. For the following reasons:

- Build Quality seems more like my 6700, which is important to me.
- Even though the Touch Pro has 150MB free RAM after soft-reset, I am sure I can still get about 70MB or so free with the Tilt. This is fine enough for me (128MB RAM for the Tilt.).
- TouchFlo3D is really nice and all, but it just isn't complete enough to make me want to use it all the time. Much needs to be worked on, before it is complete. Also, I prefer to use Spb Mobile Shell, and don't want to have a VGA screen anyways, because I am used to a QVGA screen. (This is really not a reason, but I am just not sure that I want this to be a selling point for me.)
- The many problems that are really important to me, that as of yet, hasn't been fixed, are:
1. Keyboard Backlight Timeout
2. TouchFlo Lag
3. Un-intuitive keyboard, that doesn't have many important buttons on it. (Even still, made a great investment a while back, in AEButtonb Plus, and am sure this will be a null-point.)
4. Even though there are programs out there, the options are still being developed for the Flo3D plug-in, and customizations to that software.

- The major things that I think will really get to me, are:
1. Hardware buttons and layout
2. "Plastic" contruction; I just don't think this thing could handle a bump in the road, while driving, even if it was in your pocket. (Mainly kidding, but still a major concern.)
3. Missing scroll-wheel, that was an innovation (for Windows Mobile Devices, at least) introduced with the Titan II and Mogul series. Why would they take a step backwards?


Still, I really like how they have a Ctrl key on the keyboard, and are finally making efforts in giving us more RAM. I think the most widespread issue for people, is the battery included. I would have thought they would cram more power, into that battery, since they still have a lot more room to hold a battery. Also, there should be some kind of controls for turning off Accelerometer, as I am sure this takes a lot of juice to be constantly running. It really isn't that well integrated into WM 6.1, but I think there are reasons why. WM6.5 and later will all have these features, integrated into the OS, and this is probably going to be the first device to get an upgrade to WM6.5. There is plenty of ROM and RAM to hold the newer OS.
Me rambling again.. Hopefully someone thought it was helpful at least. I'm more or less just thinking outloud, as I still can't make up a straight decision.
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