thinking about trading my touch for mogul

Originally Posted by blasphemous_prime

and what makes the mogul slower than the touch? they have the same chipsets, and i don't seem to have a problem with mine. plus i wouldn't trade my hard keyboard for anything with an interface that limits so much of what i do. and i also wouldn't want anything that runs a fever pitch for no reason in my pocket either. and despite the ram issues with the mogul, i don't run that many programs on mine, cause it kills the battery even faster regardless of the size of it.

Well, as a previous Mogul owner that switched to the Touch, I can see the speed difference even in a single app: Opera Mobile. Scrolling was slow and "jerky" (with or without FTouchFlo installed) on the Mogul, it is smooth on the Touch. Since I do not use PIE, having a device that can handle the memory hog that is Opera is nice.

The lowest available RAM I have ever managed to get on my Touch was around 52, which is more than twice as much I ever had on startup with the Mogul.

I didn't think there would be much tangible difference between the two either, but the difference surprised me.

The lack of a keyboard is a valid concern. I probably had an easier transition because compared to the two BlackBerry devices I had prior to the Mogul, I found the Mogul's keyboard to be uncomfortable and slow in that every time I needed to use it I had to wait for the phone to rotate the screen, a process which sometimes took 10 seconds for the Mogul to complete.

[shark1987]

i liked the mogul, but last week I switched to the Touch and I don't think I'll ever go back. The only thing I miss sometimes is the keyboard (but i'm getting used to the soft keyboard).

All of my programs run faster on the Touch and I can have multiple programs running at the same time without having to go into a memory manager and close them out just to open a new one.

The only time I used the WIFI on the mogul was when I was on a trip I used it to connect my laptop to the internet but I could do that through bluetooth or usb now.

Oh and the bluetooth on the mogul is terrible!!! I have the Motorola S9 and with the mogul I had to hold the phone above my waist for sound to not drop every other second. With the touch I can put it anywhere.

What is so bad about the Touch for you?

Just curious, I have had numerous lock-ups but most if not all have been with cooked roms/when running opera beta so it could just be the glitches in the software cause i wasn't getting them with the stock one.

edit: also the touch is sooo much smaller, when you look at them side by side it's not that big of a difference but walk around all day with them and you'll notice that the Touch fits so much nicer in your pocket and there is a giant bulge (lol, oh the jokes).

[markgamber]

I too had a mogul and now I have a touch and, as stated above, the difference was surprising. The touch is faster, more stable, lighter, thinner and the keyboard took about a week to get used to. After that I could type just as fast on the touch as I could on the mogul. In addition, I bought a bluetooth gps unit off ebay for $30 and it works perfectly. You can't upgrade that pitiful amount of ram in a mogul anywhere for any price. And if Sprint ever releases a rom with gps support, I'd bet a paycheck they'll have a monthly fee for it just like they do with everything else. And my stereo bluetooth headset works great with the touch. I never got bluetooth to work properly, ever, with the mogul. The mogul was so slow that the speed difference between EVDO and WIFI was negligable so I never used wifi....no loss. For a week I went back and forth but 3 months later, I wouldn't consider using a mogul again. Ever. it's grossly overpriced, underpowered junk that would embarrass a real company. Unfortunately, this is Sprint and HTC we're talking about.