Is the Touch/Vogue still popular?

[spotsbimmer]

I managed the phones at my old company a year ago and could pick any phone I wanted for my personal use, and chose the Vogue. After I left the company I purchased a Vogue.

I like it because it will fit in ANY pocket, it light and unobtrusive. With the new custom ROMs it performs a lot better than when it was new. Waiting to see the HTC Touch 2!!

[Fa310tx]

Originally Posted by spotsbimmer

Waiting to see the HTC Touch 2!!

Word...
I think the diamond has pretty well replaced it, though. I wish the jade would have been released with cdma.
Here are my perfect specs for the touch2...

cdma and gsm versions with the same hardware (I'm on alltel, go figure)
wifi
3" - 3.2" 480x800 (I'm getting tired of seeing these 4" screens, I think the overall size of the omnia is about perfect)
snapdragon (I noticed the diamond was noticeably slow with some vga games)
3mp - 5mp camera with autofocus and led (the omnia really jumped my expectations for cell cameras)
extusb (the omnia had the standard samsung proprietary connector)
3.5mm headphone jack
attached stylus (the omnia had one but it was separate)
all day battery (the omnia would commonly be dead before I got home from work, the touch and diamond have great battery life)
buttons (power on the top, volume on left-top, camera on right-bottom, two small buttons on the front-top, and a real 5-way on front-bottom, no soft-buttons all hard clicky buttons)
resistive screen (I don't care how cool multitouch is windows mobile just isn't finger-friendly enough, if we could get away from little checkboxes and bars then capacitive and no stylus would work better)
bluetooth
microsdhc
no hardware keyboard (that's what makes it a "touch")

I think that's about it. I would buy that phone in a heartbeat. When you look at it, most of what I want is on the touch that we already love. It just needs a proper refresh. Those weren't in order of importance, but when I thought about them.
To me, one of the biggest things that sets the touch apart from the new phones is the real 5-way buttons. That is something that phones seem to be loosing, and it's a real turn-off. Of course, I just bought the msi bgp100 (bluetooth gamepad for cellphones), so it may not be that big of a deal. I'd much rather be able to hold the phone, sideways, in my hands and play, though.
JJ

[breakmyfootoff]

I'm definitely anxious to get one of the new handsets that are on the horizon. The new larger higher definition screens are what I'm looking forward to the most since I watch a lot of video on my phone, and I really really want one of the phones that has a 5MP or better camera (kinda wanting the Omnia2).

That being said, I'm in no hurry to get rid of my vogue, it just works well =D>. I hardly ever have to hard reset, it has great battery life, and is easy to use. One of the good things that can be said about older devices such as the Vogue is that they have been "debugged". All the apps developed for these devices have been in use for awhile and refined extensively, all the reg edits/tweaks have been found and perfected, and solutions for most of the devices flaws have been discovered and fixed. When I do decide which new handset to purchase, I'll be putting the trusty ol Vogue into storage as a back-up handset, cause I know I can count on it.