HTC _ Touch Cruise

[David]

Anyone here has comments/feedback on this hp?

[Guyver]

I'm using HTC Touch Dual ....

 

[Nkps]

HTC Touch Dual no wifi leh

 

i am using HTC Touch, but no 3G

[KapitanE]

See here...

 

http://www.mycarforum.com/forum/Others_C20...ruise_P2224901/

[Silver_blade]

You may have to wait a while for feedback. Few have it....too new.

Edited February 21, 2008 by Silver_blade

[Guyver]

HTC Touch Dual no wifi leh

 

i am using HTC Touch, but no 3G

 

Yah .... I don't need wifi ... so ok for me.

 

HTC Touch is ok ... but the Touch Enhanced with 256MB ROM is better ....

[Gnoikj]

Check out the PPCSG forum...

 

www.ppcsg.com

 

generally good comments except for the camera...not a strong point for HTC.

 

Wifi is good because of the free wifi [email protected] this the best HTC line up currently...

[Novicej]

I got the touch cruise the 1st day it was launched. (BTW I don't sell HTC...)

 

Pro:

-Overall, very good, have not hang so far.

-gps took 2 second to activate, using mapking bundled in 1 free map

- include car hp holder, car charger, wired ear piece

 

Cons:

-battery drain fast if activate wireless, otherwise ok.

- cannot sms without looking at screen.

- I need to put in more effort to call people.- touch interface no physical keyboard, but htc does provide 4 vitual input interface.

 

 

overall assesment:

 

Except for sms and phone call, this device does it's job well especially the gps - very accurate and fast.

[Hatch_lover]

Just got this baby last week too. Was using Nokia N95 and Palm TX previously but decided to switch to this phone to reduce the use of 1 device.

 

Generally quite happy with the phone thus far except for:-

 

1) Still and Video Camera performance vis-a-vis N95 (The Nokia's camera performance is still the best for a phone.)

 

2) Stock GPS Software of N95 (Asiamaps) easier to use.

 

3) Slower web browsing via 3.5G network even with Opera Mini than using Nokia's own web browser.

 

What I like about the Cruise:-

 

1) 1 less gadget to carry as I dun use the Palm anymore.

 

2) More PPC s/w to play with than S60. Palm also has s/w but dun dare to buy as not sure future of Palm.

 

3) Better battery life than N95

 

4) Bigger screen-> greater satisfaction when surfing (but have to wait longer for pages to load)

 

5) Better PIM synchro as 1 less gadget (most important to me as I used to keep my appts and tasks list in 3 separate location, phone, PDA and laptop).

 

6) Love the multiple input system of PPC. Used to use HP6365, hated the mini virtual keyboard. The cruise has a Transcriber (not sure if its unique to HTC or all PPC nowadays has it already) which allows one to just write on the screen as you would write on paper and it will be `typed' out, cool. But that means like no one handed operations. For 1-handed operation, there is a virtual touch keypad (somewhat like the P1i dual key-board system) or a virtual touch keypad that acts like a real keypad and you can type alphanumeric characters. But you have to look at the screen as its not very sensitive and u may type wrongly.

 

7) Love the Touch-Flo skin. Although it slows the system a fair bit, i simply love it.

 

All in all, I'm very happy with the Cruise and i'm more than willing to trade the -ve points because of the postives. It will stay with me until another phone can offer the same as the Cruise but with better camera functions, or better, HTC should come out with a better still and video camera Touch Cruise.

[Novicej]

I agree that mapking registration can be confusing, but i managed to figured it out. I don't have difficulty in terms of operating with it. Its accurate and fast.

 

For the wireless try this -> By default, i find the page loading unacceptable in opera. But there is a setting to set the best performance at the expense of batt power. After that, loading at opera is much faster. (go start-> settings -> connection tab ->wireless lan -> power mode tab. Then best performance.)

 

The hand writing recognition just doesn't work very well for me. I have problems with some characters like k. So the fastest way for me is to use that virtual keyboard, which very surprisingly, works using my finger on that 3mm square.

[Route88]

I'm using N82,almost everything have

[Gnoikj]

Yup...except for touchscreen, touchflo, and Windows mobile softwares to tweak...

[Nkps]

HTC Touch Dual no wifi leh

 

i am using HTC Touch, but no 3G

 

Yah .... I don't need wifi ... so ok for me.

 

HTC Touch is ok ... but the Touch Enhanced with 256MB ROM is better ....

 

yeah i m using the HTC TOUCH enhance... i use wifi more than 3G, so i m okay with it too

[Nkps]

[Carfan]

For one handed input, use Touchpal from http://www.cootek.com

Standard version is free somemore.

[Karklub]

When I tried to surf using wifi on the homenet work with touchcruise, the phone keeps starting up 3G. Anyway to disable this 3G which incurs data charges. Also got problem using home network when using secured WPA-PSK. But okay when using unsecured homenetwork.

[Nkps]

r u saying u are unable to connect to secured network? only when you are unable to connect to secured network then the GPRS will activated

[Oriki]

U can try this program no data..

U can set the settings for gprs, MMS, etc..

http://www.mediafire.com/?909nmehimm0

 

for more info, read here

http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=94853&hl=

http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=94853&hl=

 

good luck...