HTC Touch2 or Diamond2

[leungd]

Hi all,

I was wondering if any current owners of the HTC Touch2 and Diamond2 could chime in and give some suggestions/recommendations for their experience with pleco on the Touch2 or Diamond2? I've narrowed it down to the Touch2 or Diamond2 through reading reviews/forums, and I was hoping to get some user feedback specifically contrasting these two phones.

Thanks for your help! (And looking forward to using pleco).

 

[mikelove]

Haven't used them, but from the specs at least the main difference between those two models is the screen size / resolution - the Diamond2 has 5x many pixels as the Touch2 (480x800 versus 240x320) and is a bit bigger too (3.2 versus 2.8 inches diagonal). This is mostly a good thing - makes everything show up clearer / more detailed - but can also slow things down a bit, since the system has to move around a lot more pixels when rendering Chinese characters and such.

So it's basically a tradeoff of clarity versus performance - there may be some other issues here, though, as I said I'm just going by spec sheets.

 

[chao-ren]

Hi Leung, I am also going mainly by spec and i am moving onto the iPhone (ah! at last..! :lol: )

The HTC Touch_2_(T3333) and HTC Diamond_2_(T5353) are both very newly released running Wm 6.5. There is also the more expensive TouchPRO 2 more expensive than both models you have mentioned. But just between the former 2, I like the Diamond because it comes with a larger screen and stylus slot. For this reason I was going to buy the Samsung OminiaPro or Louvre or Samsung_B7610 as it is variously referred to. But hearing that Mike thinks cpu power may be diverted to running a larger screen in the Diamond 2, makes me hesitant.

I believe the TouchPro2 should be a more powerful machine than the Touch_2. The advantage of TouchPro2 is that it has a Qwerty keyboard. It also has the all important stylus slot like the OmniaPro Louvre. For a Chinese Dictionary, I believe the stylus is an important requirement under WinMo. That is one of the reason I avoided the Samsung Omnia II or i8000 when it came out. But unfortunately all these machines are more expensive than the Diamond 2. They are near the ￥3000 Rmb range. Part of the reason for the high price is I suppose that they all come with a 5megapixal autofocus camera, stereo speakers, larger screen, hardware keyboards. Even Apple does not have all that except the screen. All pushing up the wrong end...in my opinion.

 

[mfcb]

hi, i have a touch pro, better i should say i had, because its broken right now, and i cant express how much i hate being back to using my old Dell axim x51v WITHOUT keyboard... whenever its within you budget, get a device with hardware keyboard, you'll never want one without it afterwards...