Posted on 01 October 2008, at 7:24 am, by Mitchell Oke
Hot on the heels of the Treo Pro review, and the upcoming BlackBerry Bold review, two new devices showed up today, the HTC Touch Pro and the Fujitsu T5010!
Quick Impressions of the HTC Touch Pro
I was quite a fan of the display on the Touch Diamond, but it pretty much went downhill from there. The Touch Pro has the same excellent display, but chunks it up a bit with a nice slideout thumboard to aid text entry. It’s a lot easier to type up emails and text messages on the Touch Pro, and it’s nice to see a dedicated number row squeezed into it as well.
Too early to comment on the battery life or performance, that will have to wait for the review!
Quick Impressions of the Fujitsu T5010
I haven’t used a lot of Tablet PCs before, but I can safely say this is the largest. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I’m sure to find out tomorrow on the train and at uni. Instant likes are the bright display, and the super fast Centrino 2 Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz CPU. This thing would run rings around my aging MacBook Pro!
I really like the use of a Wacom digitiser on this unit, makes the Tablet PC functions even better to use. Vista really does the whole Tablet thing well, much better than XP. The keyboard is excellent, with good feel and sizing. In fact this blurb was typed on it.
Hopefully the battery life will be really good. Straight out of the box it said it had 3hrs 30mins remaining at 85%, so we shall see if it can better that with a proper charge.
BlackBerry Bold review to come in the next few days!
October 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I can’t wait to read your impressions on the Pro. Is it a possible Universal replacement? Or a bird of a totally different feather?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I’m liking it so far, but I think it suffers from the same signal issues at the Touch Diamond. How HTC can get the radio in the Treo Pro so right and and the Touch Pro so wrong is beyond me.
Versus the Universal? Not sure about that one, will have to give it more thought. It’s really small, but quite thick.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 am
@Mitchell: What signal issues are you talking about? My Touch Diamond has no such issues at all
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 am
oh and yes, I’m running the Radio ROM which makes it Quad Band
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:44 am
Kamal, in my testing the Touch Diamond was appalling compared to other phones I’ve tested recently, it just couldn’t hold a signal properly in areas where Nokia’s could, and more the BlackBerry Bold and Treo Pro didn’t struggle.
I’m finding a similar issue with the Touch Pro, it’s simply lackluster.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:54 am
It is really odd, indeed. In fact, from the time, I’ve upgraded to Diamond, people have often pointed out that the voice quality is the best they have ever heard from anyone.
Mitchell, I guess the problem is with your network.