Need your advice for a business if you could please.

[burtonsnow8]

Originally Posted by Muldaak

Wow, I'm rather shocked all replies so far is for the TP2. I thank you for your responses.

I suppose I should have explained the business situation a little more, just didn't think anyone would want to hear about it.

I will be in a truck all day basically. Pressure Washing buildings, houses, sidewalks, etc. I do have a home PC, which is where our main Quickbooks is located. I just needed to access it also in the truck incase something changes.

The maps are a huge part of what I need on the phone, so I hope they aren't too tough to get working on the TP2.

As far as a laptop, I will eventually go that way, but for the first year or two (perfect for the Verizon plan length) I shouldn't be that burdened with work to need one yet. But, yes, I will be going that way.

Again, thank you for your replies.

For one, I will say that you've come to a HTC forum with mainly WM users asking which device is superior. Don't be expecting the majority of us to say the Droid kicks our phones ass (which IMO it doesn't because they function differently).

I'll break it down based on what I know about each phone from playing around with them.

Keyboards:

TP2 is MILES and MILES BEYOND the droid. If you are going to be typing e-mails daily, you will love the tp2. I'm sure I could get use to the droid keyboard, but the top keys are so close to the screen its hard to type. I did have to take a day or two to get use to the roomy keys on my tp2 but I LOVE IT!



Browsers:

In terms of quickness, the droid has the tp2 beat. It loads the browser quicker, it loads the pages quicker, but it seems to load a web page in simpler view which doesn't give the feel of a desktop browser. My TP2 feels exactly like a desktop browser. I didn't mess with the droid's browser enough to see if there were other options, but the overall feel I got was that the droid was built for multimedia with the business functions as an afterthought.


All those programs should work on android or WM, so I will omit those comments and give an overview of both phones. Navigation is fine if you choose to purchase an application, the free ones seem to give awkward/round-a-bout directions.



Droid: VERY responsive. Load times are minimal (less than 1 second) and the phone just works. If the only thing you care about is the response time the droid wins. If you want full function, there are shortcuts android OS has taken to help improve performance. Home screen customization is nice, but once again for multimedia, not business.

WM: Load times can be up to 5 seconds for some applications (Opera Browser specifically). Browsers seem more robust with greater features over the built in droid browser. In terms of business this has everything you want with only a couple minor drawbacks (slower processing/multi tasking).

[orangekid]

Originally Posted by burtonsnow8

For one, I will say that you've come to a HTC forum with mainly WM users asking which device is superior. Don't be expecting the majority of us to say the Droid kicks our phones ass (which IMO it doesn't because they function differently).

don't be too sure, look around these forums these days and more and more people are pimping android and bashing winmo. For almost everything I'd say go with Droid, but for a pure business aspect, the pro2 is your best bet because of some mentioned points, especially the keyboard issue (tp2 being way easier and faster than the Droid).

Currently Android just doesn't have the business type tools that winmo does, but it crushes it in multimedia and such.