Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 22nd Oct 2007 22:56 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless PureMobile sent us in the most talked about recent HTC smartphone for a review, the TyTN-II (codename "Kaiser"). We give it a whirl and of course, we can't help out ourselves by comparing it to the iPhone but also to the QTek 9100.
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General issue with Windows Mobile(s)
by DevL on Tue 23rd Oct 2007 06:49 UTC
DevL
Member since:
2005-07-06

One omf my clients is using these for its field force. However, while Eugenia is correct in that the TyTN II is "Possibly the best Windows Mobile phone in the market today for the price" it severely lacks from one thing (as do the entire Windows Mobile family): resolution.

This is 2007 and 240x320 (or 320x240) doesn't cut it anymore. The low resolution severely negates the fact that "there are over 20,000 applications for that platform".

kragil Member since:
2006-01-04

You are totally right. You just NEED VGA. Surfing with QVGA, reading PDF in 320X200, yeah right.
I still love my gigantic HTC Universal.

And i hope all phones will run Linux very well soon. The HTCs are on a good way.
The ability for users to build their own custom distros for phones would just amazing. ( some people do it for windows mobile atm, but without control over the source i dont really see a bright future for that )
Lets hope the google phone will push mobile linux in every respect.

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Eugenia Member since:
2005-06-28

QVGA is a good resolution. What you need is web sites to be more intelligent about it, like OSNews.com is. Even the iPhone is not fantastic from your point of view at 320x480. I would much prefer 640x360 or 848x480 (16:9 480p).

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