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I had the Touch Pro for a couple weeks, and I'm now testing out the 800w.

The battery seems better on the 800w. Even when used sparingly during the day, the HTC required a charge at night, regardless.

The TeleNav screen appears sharper on the 800w. TeleNav on the HTC seemed sort of blurry.

The biggest complaint people on any Treo website have is the 800w's sound quality. The speaker phone becomes distorted at any setting above the absolute lowest level. Static also emits from the earpiece and speaker phone.

One major flaw of the HTC was its lack of a menu for call waiting and three-way calling. The exclusion of this menu is simply unforgivable. There are $20.00/free phones that have these menus built in. You can accomplish these functions, but it is a totally archaic task. The 800w has a menu, but it is not as sophisticated as my V3xx, where you can conference a call-waiting caller and also select which caller to drop during a 3-way call.

Why are the repeat missed call, repeat missed SMS, repeat missed email, and repeat missed voice mail check boxes greyed out in the 800w's settings menu? Why do they not want you to be able to check these boxes? Is it a hidden self-destruct command?

You could edit the reg to activate the repeat missed SMS check box, but so far there are no hacks for the others. With the extremely low ring volume and retarded one vibrate per incoming call while ringing, you sure as hell need this repeat missed call feature. Editing the registry for the ringer volume distorts it even more. At the 5 setting, it's like a hooptie with 20" speakers booming down the road. Even the 3 setting was pretty bad. They set it at 2 because it doesn't distort at that setting. But you also can't hear it at that setting.

This is a WM issue, but continuously going to task manager to end programs is getting tiresome. Google Maps and Sprint Nav actually have 'exit' commands, which effectively ends the program. I guess Internet Exploder didn't know about the 'exit' command.

I also think it was lame to have those hard buttons on the bottom of the HTC non-touch. I also used to have the Instinct, and it sucked, but the buttons on the bottom were true 'touch' buttons.

Oh ya, unlike the Touch Pro, you have to load some other stuff on the 800w to run in conjunction with Opera Mini. I tried Skyfire, but I don't think it's ready for prime time. Youtube also doesn't work on the 800w for whatever reason. A media player pops up, and it seems like it will work, but all you get is an error.

Even with the marginal sound quality, I like the 800w better.