Soooo undecided

Compusmurf · #1 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 10:33 AM

I have the touch now. I've had a Treo in the past.

So I've had devices with and without keyboards.

I usually "wear" my device on my belt, no pockets.

Touch is a great Size, lacking buttons.
Diamond is nice, seems alot faster than the touch.

Touch pro seems to have everything diamond has plus keyboard.

I don't much care for cameras on the phone, as I have several REAL cameras for photos.

I do have several microSD cards (all 4Gb) that I take out once a month and backup.

I had an Ipaq hx4700 with VGA screen and it was super clear, hated giving it up.

VGA, speed are my 2 biggies, but I'm having the hardest time deciding between diamond and pro.

Anyone go thru the same delimma and come up with a reasonable observation/solution?

commonplace · #2 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 10:36 AM

I'm definitely having the same dilemma, and I think many of us are. The main snag for me is the lack of expansion possibilities on the Diamond. 4GB of built-in storage is nice, but without the option to add a microSD card for more storage... that's kind of scary. That's making me lean toward the Touch Pro, but I'm not sure.

/Kevin

**cornelious2** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 10:42 AM

maybe someone can rig up a usb to mini usb adapter and let us use a thumb drive

Compusmurf · #4 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 10:49 AM

Cornelious2, that would assume that the diamond has USB host capability, it's enabled and HTC provided drivers. I would have to sa NAHHHHHHHH. Not going to happen.

Kevin.

well, my touch has a 4gb microSD and it's not even 1/2 full of what I use it for. to me, it's NOT an mp3 player. I keep work documents, some reference materials, etc. It's a portable brain.

so the extra built in 4gb would probably be fine. I would almost guarantee the built in 4gb has alot faster access time than microSD would too.

I've gone thru that debate. It'll take backups a bit longer to run, but that's about it. Now I backup TO the SD, remove the SD and copy to my pc.

**cornelious2** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 11:03 AM

no2chem already was able to turn our ppc's into portable hard drives, I really don't see it being that far fetched. only time will tell.

Compusmurf · #6 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 02:59 PM

no2chem's trick was an old one that's been around forever. Nothing overly special about that. There's a difference that the PC already has the USB Host controller and drivers. Most PPC's and smartphones do NOT have the usb Host controller components. There has only been 1 or 2 PPC's released EVER that has had USB Host capability and those, it was mostly limited to HID type devices.