Any Big reason to upgrade to 6900?

[buddhatikkigod]

thanks, so im going to try and see if i can get my hands on a 6900 for cheap... or a 6800 if i have to (they both share teh same cpu(s) right?

[Negrito]

Yeah, but the 6900 still has more ram.

[diomark]

The main reasons you may want to upgrade from the apache are (and I've owned it..) -

1) The screen stops recalibrating. I had an annoyance accross 3 different apache's where the screen kept needing re-calibration
2) more ROM, more RAM

I don't miss the keyboard on my vogue (went from Apache to Mogul, then the vogue..) - The touchpal soft keyboard is a great keyboard and honestly I'm faster on it then I was on any of the hardware keyboards...

Having said that, you may want to wait until ~oct/nov timeframe- sprint will be introducing new toys in time for christmas I'm sure..
-mark

Originally Posted by buddhatikkigod

Well that clinches it with the cpus being so similar i dont see much reason to upgrade, unless i get handed one im not going to spend the money to upgrade. The lack of keyboard is both a plus and minus to me.

Ive heard the Diamond and Pro will have much faster cpu's... theyll be using the next gen.

What i dont get is back in 02 and 03 i was reading a report on a new .5-1Ghz PPC chip that was reported to be able to hit 2ghz in a bigger ppc... where the hell are these? I personally think that the people making the ppc's came together and decided to not constantly be one-upping themselves in the CPU power department, too much money in R&D maybe or loss of profits. But we could be having much more powerful PPC's almost equivalent to the last Pentium M's (right before the CoreDuo's came out). I want more! more god damn it more!!

[diomark]

Originally Posted by buddhatikkigod

thanks, so im going to try and see if i can get my hands on a 6900 for cheap... or a 6800 if i have to (they both share teh same cpu(s) right?

The 6800 is *really* limited by the amount of memory that they put on there..
-mark

[buddhatikkigod]

i'm on verizon... think i should hold out?

[Negrito]

Call VZW and ask them if they know of any phones that are upcoming.