Good time to leave TP2?

[vonnieglen]

I received my first Ebay Touch Pro 2 yesterday. The seller did an incredible job of detailing the phone... there was not a fingerprint let alone a scratch on. I assume it was a hardly used return. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but I could not be happier.

It came with the stock WM6.1 rom. It activated with no problems using the automated system. I spent the rest of the day going through the manual and verifying that all of the features were working properly. The only glitch if you want to call it that was that someone removed the Sprint Global Sim card. I was thinking it might be useful for future mods so I ordered one for $9. I only paid $109 and $8 shipping for the phone from a reputable dealer who I have purchased several other phones from over the years.

I am especially impressed with the quallity of the speaker phone. The reception of the phone is also better than what we are used to. We live in an outlying area and normally it is difficult to make a call from certain parts of the house, but the Touch Pro 2 works everywhere. The call quallity is very good, and the phone feels very solid.

I ran a lot of the applications that came with the stock ROM yesterday. For someone who has been browsing with an Apache (PPC-6700) going from a 240x320 screen to 480x800 screen is amazing. Browsing is a whole new experience and watching video literally is like going from a standard TV to HD. The only browsing issue I ran into was of course when I went to websites using Flash content causing the Flash light version in the browsers to run out of memory. I have been running WM6.5 on the Apache so I was curious if the TP2 with it's greater resources would handle this issue better.

As Chardog pointed out... the feedback for this phone on the Sprint Website is currently just atrocious. A few weeks ago that wasn't the case. I am at a loss to explain it. I am extremely impressed with the phone. To me it feels like a very high quallity item. It almost makes me wonder if Sprint isn't gaming the system to steer people away from the phone.

After I master the features of the phone in it's stock configuration... I am looking forward to updating it to get even more out of it. At this point I couldn't be happier!