HTC Touch Pro2 Reviews

BeanoFTW
Oct 16 2009, 3:13 AM EDT
I just wanted to say that it's cool that we have an HTC wiki. A telephone rep from HTC told me about this site. I saw that there was no Sprint Touch Pro 2 page, so I took the liberty of adding it.

Sorry in advance for the double post, but each post has a 2000 character limit and I thought a good in-depth first post would draw good discussion. Here are my first impressions of the phone that I personally thought was cool or unique compared to other phones or carrier models.

THE POSITIVE
*It's fast. I love the extra processing speed and RAM.
*Touch Flo 3D interface is smooth and well-made. So far, I've had a good experience with it. There was a bug that made it unable to place calls on the software, but a hard reset fixed the problem. I think it was my fault anyways. One random favorite is the facebook integration with your contacts. However, there are some negatives associated with it (see below).
* The 3mm Headphone Jack is a great addition. It's too bad it wasn't made that way for the other carriers.
* The Keyboard is very well-made and very solid. The backlight is also a big plus.
* Wi-Fi... nuff said =)
* The HTC Task Manager. I'm glad at least HTC realizes the importance of having a task manager in the top right corner and handy at almost any time. They realize that (unfortunately) it's used enough to need it as a quick shortcut. Definitely a plus in my opinion.
* Opera Mobile 9.5 comes included and as the default browser - *gets on knees* THANK YOU!!!
* The nice screen, extra stylus, other small things, ect. - Good small impressions and very convenient.

BeanoFTW
Oct 16 2009, 3:13 AM EDT
THE NEGATIVES
*It comes with the RAM at 71% used up. Although it has 288MB of RAM, which is quite a bit for a smartphone, it comes with 3/4 of it already used for the OS and Touch Flo 3D, which brings me to my next point...
*Although I do enjoy Touch Flo 3D, it's responsible for a lot of the memory usage in the phone. It (thankfully) can be turned off for those people that don't end up liking it. Turning off the feature dropped the memory usage down from 71% to 42% when I tried it.
*The battery life is very short. It's very understandable given all of the phone's capabilities and I almost think it's unfair to put this against the phone, but I fully charge my phone in the morning and it's half drained by the time I go to bed. I do use it a lot for internet and texting, but I thought I'd at least mention it to possibly warn prospective buyers.
*It comes with a lot of Sprint Applications that cannot be removed from the Control Panel. I have only the standard data plan, not all the fancy Sprint features like Sprint music or Sprint Navigation. It would be nice to remove the programs you don't need or won't ever use.
*The USB cable that it comes with is too short. It's about 5 feet long, but the cable that came with my older phone was much longer. I am neutral about the AC outlet USB interface. I can see people liking it or not liking it. I still haven't decided that yet.

Feel free to share anything you thought was a plus, or think could be improved. Is there anything I missed or didn't mention that you want to share? What are your impressions? What do you like / not like about the phone?



sarcasim71
Today, 11:06 AM EST
I share the same feelings as you do BeanoFTW. Below are functions that I have accessed via the TouchFlo3D screens.

I have several other cons to add to the list. CON 1. Adding a state in the weather app. I live in Richmond, IN and there is no way in enter this info in the app. I was told by an HTC rep to down load a 3rd party app to accomdate my weather needs.
CON 2. I haven't figured out a way to only show a defaulted filtered contacts ie: personal when selecting the people button. After clicking on "people" then "all contacts", all my contacts show up. I have them catorgorized as person, business & suppliers and it sucks when I want to look up my buddies number and i have to scroll down past my suppliers to see his number. It would be nice to just click "people" and have only personal contacts show up.
CON 4. I'm a former crakberry user and it was nice to have the option to delete e-mails from device or e-mail account or both. Is there a set up like this in the e-mail options? If so I can't find it.
Last but not least I'm not sure if this is a CON but I have deleted, cleared, soft reset & hard reset my phone to clear the call history and I still have the icon on my touchflo screen.



sarcasim71
Today, 11:09 AM EST
Addtion to my previous post. Is there any way to change what is displayed on the TouchFlo3D screen. I'm getting kinda bored seeing the call history and calendar. I would just like to see the clock.