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The lack of ATI Imageon hardware driver support and the 7200 chipset driver support on the TYTN II is obvious. The TYTN II, which claims to be superior to most all current devices on the market, is lacking serious driver and hardware support when it comes to Video playback. In fact, anything that has to do with Direct Draw, Direct X and any fluid movement of pixels on the screen seems behave in an unacceptably slow manner.

Even the camera application that comes with the device slows down to such a slow frame rate that photos are not able to be captured, and cause videos to record and render slower than a sideshow. Videos captured from a third party source render faster on devices over 3 years older using slower technology.

There are many TYTN II owners experiencing the same exact results that have been briefly explained above. The lack of speed in rendering video or 3D content on the TYTN II seems to be a direct result of poorly coded and even missing driver support. If HTC is unable or unwilling to resolve this issue, please prove a full fledge SDK release so that phone owners can repair what HTC was unwilling or unable to do.

Thank You,

All TytnII/ATT Tilt/T Mobile MDA Vario III owners.

Sincerely,

Ryan Spencer

More info: http://www.htcclassaction.org

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I’m sitting in my dining room tracking 5 to 7 satellites.

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I might have to make my own case for it.

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http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdacomparer

Unfortunately, this site has no Nokia phones on it. here is a link to the Nokia site with the E90 specs:

http://usa.nokia.com/A4351714

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1. Free GPS. If you buy the non-AT&T version it comes bundled with the free version of TomTom navigator software (which turns out to be excellent). You get one free city map, so I got Chicago. [Pleasant surprise]

2. It takes five minutes the first time you use it to get a signal, and it only really works well outdoors. [Unpleasant surprise]

3. After you get your first signal, subsequent connections take one or two seconds.

4. Contrary to my expectations, the refresh rate is less than one second. I was really surprised when I was walking around town with the device. If I took two or three steps forward, the cursor on the map moved with me. I always thought that this sort of thing would refresh every 10 seconds, or maybe even every minute, but it felt ‘real-time’ so-to-speak. [Pleasant surprise].

5. Tomtom has all sorts of interesting features. You pick a location X on a map, and it tells you how to get there DEPENDING ON THE MODE OF TRAVEL YOU CHOOSE. You can pick from walking, driving, biking, etc. The route and estimated time and distance adjust appropriately. All for free! Also, all of the navigation instructions are spoken to you by a British girl voice. Other voices/languages cost extra. British girl is fine by me though. [Pleasant surprise].

6. Tomtom’s wonderfulness notwithstanding, I’m not sure yet how to access GPS through any other means. I’ve been told that Google maps couples with GPS, but I haven’t figured out how to do this yet. There is no Windows Mobile system application that simply readys off your coordinates as given by the GPS satellites.

I’ve only had this device for a few days, so keep reminding me to post more information as I learn to use the device more effectively. the one-free-map thing might sound less like a feature and more like an absence of one once I start travelling elsewhere.

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does the GPS work out of the box? I heard that AT&T was going to hobble their version so you have to pay for the GPS as an additional service like for the 8525.

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In the Windows Mobile operating system “OK”=”ESC” for all intents and purposes (or should I say, for all “intensive purposes”?). Notice that there is and ‘OK’ button on the keyboard.

-Chris

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Anyway, it cost me $800. However, before you jump to call me a lunatic, consider the following:

Buying from AT&T locks you into a 2-year contract if I am not mistaken. Now multiply $40/month * 24 months. That’s $960. Now consider instead, buying a SkypeIn number (like me), and SkypePro, and unlimited calling (incoming and outgoing) within North America. Voicemail and call display included. Total bill? $7 a month. Since both my home and my university campus have free wireless, this covers me for almost all cases. I’m still considering an unlimited data plan from a carrier (the Chicago area has 3G nearly everywhere), which would mean that I could receive and make calls virtually everywhere through Skype via the Kaiser. I’m waiting on that latter idea though to see if I really need it.

All that being said, setting up SkypeMobile is a bit of headache. It’ll be really easy someday soon, just not today. The whole thing reminds me of Linux vs. Windows. Of course going open-source is much much cheaper, but it also incurs a fair amount of headache-ness and pioneering spirit.

*phew* Long post, better get back to work!

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Can anybody comment on why HTC put the speaker phone on the back? What is the design/vision here? Imagine putting the phone on the table of your meeting room (or whatever) and having a conference call. Since the microphone is on the opposite side of the speaker phone… either your voice will be muffled, or the speaker’s voice will be muffled. It’s kind of hard to stand up the phone vertically… so, yeah, let me know what you think.

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Let me know if you have any questions.

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PC

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