New pics of the Raphael

[TurboFool]

Originally Posted by hippity.hoppity

Huh? The send/end keys are right on the front where they've always been. The other two front keys are Home and Back.

I'm not liking the flush touchscreen unless they use a capacitive screen (they're too cheap for that) and the lack of hard buttons. The Raphael has no hard buttons on either side.

He's not referring to the phone Send/End, he's referring to the soft buttons that map to onscreen buttons, like Send and Menu in e-mail, for instance. I believe they dropped these because with them use capacitive buttons instead of hard buttons, and the touchscreen being flush with the front, it's just as easy to hit the on-screen implementations as it was to hit the physical buttons, so they become unnecessary.

I am concerned with the decrease in side buttons, though. I use mine quite a bit, and have them heavily customized. The scroll wheel is gone, too, which I use quite often.

[clockcycle]

Diamond has 128mb ram, Raphael has 256mb ram.. nice

-CC

[hippity.hoppity]

Originally Posted by TurboFool

He's not referring to the phone Send/End, he's referring to the soft buttons that map to onscreen buttons, like Send and Menu in e-mail, for instance. I believe they dropped these because with them use capacitive buttons instead of hard buttons, and the touchscreen being flush with the front, it's just as easy to hit the on-screen implementations as it was to hit the physical buttons, so they become unnecessary.

I am concerned with the decrease in side buttons, though. I use mine quite a bit, and have them heavily customized. The scroll wheel is gone, too, which I use quite often.

Are you 100% sure about the screen being capacitive? HTC has never done one before.

[gobmonster]

Man, i really hat how that keyboard is looking. The X1's keybaord looks spaced and comfortable, this one looks compact and they it has that stupid extra row, i can invision my self hitting 4 keys at once by mistake so easily on this thing

I guess when the race is this tight youll look for any flaws, sooooo, Raphael has compact qwerty and the X1's screen isnt flushed... also the Raphael has a lower res, but it also looks sleeker... DECISIONS!

[Young_breedent]

Originally Posted by gobmonster

Man, i really hat how that keyboard is looking. The X1's keybaord looks spaced and comfortable, this one looks compact and they it has that stupid extra row, i can invision my self hitting 4 keys at once by mistake so easily on this thing

I guess when the race is this tight youll look for any flaws, sooooo, Raphael has compact qwerty and the X1's screen isnt flushed... also the Raphael has a lower res, but it also looks sleeker... DECISIONS!

what is the X1???? But as far as the keyboard being compact i really dont think you can make that judgement until you get your hands on one....looks can be deceiving.....i didn't think i was gonna like my mogul as much as i do but now i love the damn thing....HTC knows what they are doing and i would prefer having the numbers there because havng to push the fn key to typr numbers sometimes is a pest. But the moral to my story is you can't just go off of these pictures your gonna have to wait until you play with it hands on before you make any conclusions.

[PoppaGrizzly]

I thought I was the only one who thought the stylus location was horrible. Phone looks sweet.

[[sammich]]

Ok... I'm starting to feel worse about this phone...

I really don't like the looks of the t-mobile version. And its strange that the developed phone pictures are coming before the phone has been officially announced by HTC! I wan't official HTC pictures, they look better! I hope they just keep it the same as the Diamond, except with a full keyboard and SD slot. (and flat backside, and raphael specs)

IDK about you, but I really like square-ness.

I hope Sprint's version looks better than t-mobile.

[TurboFool]

Originally Posted by clockcycle

Diamond has 128mb ram, Raphael has 256mb ram.. nice

The Diamond has 192MB of RAM, not 128, according to the HTC press releases. Whether the carriers decide to change this is unknown, though.

Originally Posted by hippity.hoppity

Are you 100% sure about the screen being capacitive? HTC has never done one before.

I didn't say the screen was capacitive, the buttons are. The screen's the usual resistive, but for some reason they made the front buttons a capacitive touch-sensor instead of hardware buttons or resistive.

[SirNathaniel]

This is AWESOME!! I'm gonna love this quantum leap from the pathetic 64mb ram to 256, this should have been done on the 6700 for cryin out loud! But at least it's finally happening. I must say, I'm actually glad they're making the keyboard slide the same way as the 6700 did, giving the right hand thumb access to the directional pad, that was nicer. Still like the the mogul better than the 6700 of course. But the Raphael is shaping our to be a true iphone pwner! As is of course the diamond. It makes sense to give the Raphael a bit more ram to help it re-render everything when the keyboard slides in/out, cut down on the delay. So if the web browser disappoints...these phones should definitely be able to easily handle Netfront when trying to access bigger pages.

[Knether]

Originally Posted by TurboFool

Massive? It's smaller than the Mogul, same dimensions as the Touch Diamond except for the thickness of the keyboard. How is that overkill? Or are you confusing it for the Ameo 16GB listed on the same page?

key word.. LOOKS..

it looks huge.