TP2 & TP1 Are The Same Spec Wise, Why Is The TP2 So Much Better?

[losplatanos]

wow lol
1. much bigger screen
2. world phone accepts sim cards, no more spending 3 dollars a minutos or having a buy a phone when i travel, just buy a local sim card and am good
3. tilting screen
4. better speakers

what sold me was the screen and the sim card thing

what i miss about my tp is the flash light, it was the brigtest light i seen on a phone
and having the speaker on the side, i hate that the speaker is on the bottom on my new phone i always place it near my bed or the couch and sound is muffle

[supdawg]

TP2 has a better, higher quality LCD, and updated drivers.

[japper88]

I never had the TP1 but is the TP2 faster and smoother in comparison if both devices have touchflo/manila turned off (just running plain vanilla winmo6.1? If so then it's got to be the drivers if the hardware is exactly the same.

[done12many2]

I owned the Sprint PPC-6700, PPC 6800, Touch Pro, and now Touch Pro 2. Out of all of these Windows Mobile based phones, none come close to the Touch Pro 2.

You can speculate that the specifications look similar which is exactly what I was thinking. I originally bought a Touch Pro 2 based on the screen and battery life alone, but much to my surprise, I got a great deal more in regards to performance over my Touch Pro.

In just about every area I looked, it was better. It is definitely faster. The screen is a dramatic improvement. The battery life is much better. The biggest surprise of all, was the speaker, or should I say speakers. The sound quality is night and day. The microphone array is also greatly improved and when combined with much better sounding and louder speakers, I can now actually use the speakerphone when driving my car.

Don't get me wrong, I still use may original Touch Pro. I use it as a data hookup for my laptop

[goldenu]

Agreed with the larger, higher resolution being the reason I upgraded, but the real surprise for me was the near-instant lock the GPS on the TP2 has. I have had a TP1, Fuze, & Tilt, and all of them had fairly slow GPS locks...not this bad boy.

[99accordv6]

Cant wait till the Touch Pro3 comes out

[Alpine-]

Originally Posted by 99accordv6

Cant wait till the Touch Pro3 comes out

Windows Mobile 7 and some Snapdrogon goodness? I hope so... Ive gone from a Mogul to a TP to a TP2. The step from Mogul to TP was huge. The step from TP to TP2 is not as noticeable in terms of performance but it is a better phone overall. Is it worth $200 is your current TP is working fine, probably not. I think of the TP2 as merely a revised TP with some minor fixes. I was not blown away by the change. The move from the current TP2 chipset to a Snapdragon or Tegra solution will be more drastic. Surprisingly, in this recent review of the HD2, it appears the aging Winmo6x is the real bottleneck limitation to performance even on faster chipsets.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/

WM6x is what sets these Pro/Pro 2 apart from the Android, Pre, and iphone. I am a WM fan, but MS really needs to step it up and get their stuff together for WinMo 7. Winmo 6x is REALLY showing its age. HTC has done a great job with TouchFlo and now Sense UI but there is only so much you can do with the aging OS.

HD2 should come to a few U.S. carriers (hopefully Sprint) in Q1-2 of 2010.

Well, it looks like we might be only a few months away from seeing this wish become reality. Already shipping in Europe and now in Taiwan, HTC announced on Wednesday that it plans to bring the HTC HD2 to the United States with a major carrier in early 2010.

Unfortunately, the company did not reveal which U.S. provider would have that honor, or any pricing information, but we should note that the smartphone will be available through T-Mobile UK on November 9 and TmoNews has spotted the smartphone mentioned in some leaked T-Mobile USA documents.