HTC Touch Pro

[Tekki]

Anyone own one? Just ordered one with Sprint. Wanted to know if those who own one have any advice on what to get on these or can point me to a good read resources while I wait for it to come in.

[Johnblaze]

Never owned but I am with Sprint... and this is what I use when I want a new phone but need info.

Sprintusers.com - The Place for Sprint Phone Reviews, Sprint Tools, and Sprint Ringtones.

I'm starting to hate sprint though.

[Tekki]

I've been using Virgin mobile for years now and the service has been fantastic. I've been from the west coast to the east coast in the past 15 months and never had service issues. Virgin uses sprints network.

The only other way to get this phone was through verizon. They were going to charge me $20 more a month for my plan, $300 more for my deposit. The Phone they had was an older model and had a lesser rebate and cost more. Overall I paid half the price to get the newest model overnighted to me, and I have unlimited text/data and a 400 anytimes.

[Johnblaze]

It must just be me and my bad luck with phones... I mean my family doesn't have issues with it. It's just me. I've taken 3 phones back due to static. I have the Rumor right now and it gets the job done for me.

[Norellicus]

I just bought one of these and I love it. The interface is really nice, the phone doesn't lag (a common complaint I heard with many WM6 phones), and sound is clear. Opera Mobile is the closest you can get to iphone safari and works almost as well.

The only downside is that you really have to diligently charge it every night, the battery doesn't last too long especially with super heavy use of data services.

Google are whores and haven't developed google talk for WM yet, but if you download the app fring you get google talk access as well as a bunch of other networks all from one app; it also works as a VoIP client of sorts, in that you can make phone calls across your data line (the advantage in this being if you're in a roaming area and your plan doesn't cover roaming phone calls inherently; data usage is much lower cost per minute, according to their website).

My only complaint with it so far is that the alarm function will halt itself after a few minutes of playing the alarm and resort to a simple little chiming noise to let you know the alarm passed. I'm really bad about waking up in the morning so having a phone that persistently continues sounding the alarm until you actually go in and click the 'dismiss' button was kind of nice lol.

Haven't found any particularly useful communities specifically for the phone yet, but I haven't been looking too hard either since I've had it less than a month.

[Tekki]

lol good thing i have unlimited data

[devildrifterX]

Pretty much any smartphone nowadays is on a charge ATLEAST everyday. I can burn thru the battery on my Blackberry Storm just from pumping out emails and text messages.

Iirc the HTC uses WinMo so you have some good things coming your way, like Fennec (mobile firefox) and some nice apps. Take a look over at WMExperts.com you'll be able to learn alot about the phone and its Ins and outs in general.

IDK is Sprint service any good in your area? It doesnt suck here cause Sprint sponsor the nascar races so they have great reception here in Daytona, but i hear in some areas the 3G is atrocious. If it was really bad you might have been better off paying a deposit and going with Verizon or AT&T

[Tekki]

Service in the Purdue area is remarkable

[Tekki]

God this phone is fucking amazing. 2 co workers have had iphones for awhile now, and my old roomate also had one. (Dolmen on this site) Its nice having everything that those phones have, with the keyboard. The shit you can do to this phone is pretty endless as well.

Btw.

ppcgeeks.com

So far this site has had everything I could want for this phone.

[devildrifterX]

I assume the phone must be treating you well...i personally feel like stabbing myself in the neck when using a phone with WinMo lol. If i EVER got one i'd wait until the new WM7 is out at like the end of 09 beginning of '10 (from what i've read on rumor sites).

These phones are capable of alot, and their pushing the boundaries on these smart phones very quickly with better browsers and enhanced 3G speeds and all sorts of apps...its like a mini laptop essentially lol.

Do you use your phone for business use or personal use?

[Tekki]

Both. I run my own store and help out at 2 other stores so Im perpetually going back and forth between my gmail, texts and the occasional call for emergencies, especially on my day off.

I also got it for personal use, its nice to have a decent phone for once.

The trick with these is to really open up the registry and configurations. I've got mine clean from a lot of the worthless Sprint crap that lags the system, I've opened up some of the memory usage and upload a handful of .cab files people put together online to make this run better. I've increased the touch sensitivity, changed a lot of the power settings so it doesnt get hot and it also doesnt drill the batter. Overall Ive spent about 4-5 hours total getting this phone to run as smooth as it does now.

My only concern now is the battery life. Luckily I have a car with a built in wall jack so Im just going to buy 2 chargers, charge back and forth from work and running around for work, and while I sleep. My contact list sucked ass to build as well. 200+ contacts had to be put in manually since I went from a Wild Card from Virgin mobile to a real phone. It also bugs me that they simply don't have a windows based registry editor and that you have to download an advance configuration program to open up your phone in its entirety for tweaking.

The longest part of tweaking the phone was trying to piece together which registry editor, to use for the phone (yes most load on this but some don't let you edit certain registries), getting the adv config, and finding out that I needed up update the .net to get the adv config to work before I could even get to work. Google is your friend for any issue on this phone. That said, Once I had it up and running it was simply registry edits for the most part.

My roommate is now going to buy one. He's been using smart phones since I could remember and he was holding out for a Palm Pre, but now that he saw mine in action, what i was able to do to speed up the performance, and everything it does, hes going to get one.

The best thing is the customer support for this. If you get this through sprint, HTC and Sprint bombard you with feedback for the phone. Seeing the new HTC from CES 2009 makes me think that they will continue to improve this phone, and I can't wait to see what Ill be able to get in 3-4 years.

[Ohemgee]

I was going to get this until they announced the Palm Pre. I think I made a thread about Sprint phones 2 months ago.

[Tekki]

di.fm can be streamed straight off this phone... God thats the coolest thing ive done with this so far...

[devildrifterX]

What the fuck is a Wild Card lol. As for your battery issue, that's just the life of a smartphone, a few tricks I've learned is to turn your brightness down, don't use youtube lol, and close programs down. When your not using them
Most programs may look for data to stay updated when you reopen the program so if you close it out the phone is not trying to communicate with the phone towers constantly, and it helps with
managing the usable memory on the phone for better response.

I'm surprised you went thru all that length to get your phone setup...most people will complain about it without actually doing about it.
Right now I'm playing the waiting game on my Storm for new beta OS to get leaked to improve performance lol.

Btw I think your friend would be pissed if he passed up the Pre before it drops, I've read very promising things and even apple felt threatened enough to pull the Patent Card out lol

The future for smartphones is HD resolutions with beefy cams built in...the software from WM7 looks absolutely amazing imo.

[Tekki]

They (palm and iphone) could go back and forth all day long with patents. Nothing will come of it. imho

[devildrifterX]

Yeah thats true, but apparently Apple is butthurt over the Pre having multi-touch capabilities