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Re: Should I keep my Tp2 or...

One thing that's always affected my choice of anything is knowing that if a product is targeted at businesses it's going to have better reliability and/or build quality than something that is not. It's why I bought a Thinkpad instead of an XPS, it's why my last Blackberry (a Curve 8300) had an unrepairable trackball issue, and it's why I got the TP2 instead of the Pre. Since the Pearl, Blackberry's been putting out phones to appeal to the masses, and their reliability has dropped.

Businesses make large orders. If 30% of a line of laptops targeted to gamers have issues, the gamers deal with it through the warranty and it's not critical that they lose their gaming machines for a week or so. If the same thing happened to a line of laptops targeted to businesses, it would result in a huge productivity loss to the businesses and the subsequent decision to buy from a different manufacturer in the future.

If I'm getting a computer or phone and I can't choose each individual component and put it together myself like I can with a home PC, I will always go with something targeted more to business users and businesses. I've been burned by reliability issues almost every time I haven't (only counterexample is an LG slider feature-phone that put up with stuff that would have destroyed most phones and lasted 4 years besides...had it for 2.5 years before retiring it, then it came out of retirement a bit over a year later when my Blackberry decided it didn't like its trackball or any replacement I tried).

Re: Should I keep my Tp2 or...

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Originally Posted by mikejones13 (Post 1218614)

Just a quick question. If you wanted a "toy" why did you go out and buy a BUSINESS phone? You would be better off with Palm os or Samsung GUI. The TOUCH PRO and TOUCH PRO 2 are windows PROFESSIONAL phones, and right now the TP2 is the FLAGSHIP of MS mobile right now. Thats like saying I want to go and get a BENTLEY to go 4 wheeling with. You need to get a jeep, lol.

Well because it a beautiful phone and really nice hardware. And at the time the best phone vzw had that appield to what I was looking in a phone.

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Originally Posted by Herbal954 (Post 1218707)

indeed this phone can appeal to many different types of user, but in each of those categories i think its the hardcore, hardcore business...hardcore modder....phone efficianado who loves to hook up their phones and be able to do everything possibly imaginable with it and isnt impatient. WE dont care if it takes us a week to get the damn thing exactly how we want it. WE're not iphone users that just want to press one button and it HAS to work and is too lazy to even jailbreak LMAO

This is it this is exactly what I mean I want lol. I want to be able to do what ever I want to do.

@ALL Just to be clear to everyone what I meant in my OP is not that I hate WM (I dont) but I dont really like its UI and only compared it to the iphone as a mobile UI done right. Love or hate the iphone UI is IMHO better then WM. I love the fact that you can change just about anything with WM and basically do anything you want. Plus the iphone is not even a option for me as I REFUSE to switch to ATT its not gonna happen (They suck in my area network wise). So please stop telling me "then go get a iphone if you like it so much" because even if I wanted to I cant/wont.

Re: Should I keep my Tp2 or...

ive had a 3g, jailbroke it..hacked it to the max and was unsatisfied, with the phone with the huge bill and with the lame coverage, you sir darkman sound like an iphone fanboi...take it to modmyi

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Originally Posted by darkmanx4u26 (Post 1218740)

so I guess if you have the time to write roms weekly/monthly and reinstall your software and settings, spend time editing, tweeking registry to make the phone just right for you. the TP2 is for you. I truly enjoy custom roms, but there are times I just want to me a call and surf the net effortlessly.

I could not have said it better myself.

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Originally Posted by mayoko185 (Post 1218754)

Well because it a beautiful phone and really nice hardware. And at the time the best phone vzw had that appield to what I was looking in a phone.

This is it this is exactly what I mean I want lol. I want to be able to do what ever I want to do.

@ALL Just to be clear to everyone what I meant in my OP is not that I hate WM (I dont) but I dont really like its UI and only compared it to the iphone as a mobile UI done right. Love or hate the iphone UI is IMHO better then WM. I love the fact that you can change just about anything with WM and basically do anything you want. Plus the iphone is not even a option for me as I REFUSE to switch to ATT its not gonna happen (They suck in my area network wise). So please stop telling me "then go get a iphone if you like it so much" because even if I wanted to I cant/wont.

..you can make a WM look like an iphone...jailbreak hack do whatever you want to an iphone and its not gonna look or function like a WM device

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Originally Posted by mayoko185 (Post 1218772)

I could not have said it better myself.

then go get an iphone and disperse](*,)

plenty of noobgrounds to join in the iphone community, i know...i was there

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Originally Posted by Herbal954 (Post 1218779)

then go get an iphone and disperse](*,)

plenty of noobgrounds to join in the iphone community, i know...i was there

I alry said im not getting the iphone, I give up...

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Originally Posted by mayoko185 (Post 1218788)

I alry said im not getting the iphone, I give up...

not to try and make anything worse, but spec wise and feature wise, my TP kills an iphone, TP2 is like the Lexus of toyota, still a toyota underneath all the new bodywork, but much more refined.

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if you even have to question it, return it...it doesent deserve you. thats just my opinion though