Hello folks,
Been a while since my last post.Was busy with the regular activities of life and i couldnt find time to make a post. But here i am with a new one.
This time it is about an awesome piece of technology.
I lost my mobile a HTC touch and was sad about it so to get over it i got myself a TYTN II.
This is truly a marvelous piece of technology engineered to perfection.
The design itself is amazing as the phone slides out and props up which makes it possible to place the mobile on surfaces and still be able to view the screen sitting on a chair. The qwerty keypad that slides out is also very good. There are 2 soft keys on the keypad for the options that appear on the screen. These are a little hard to access as they are placed right below where the screen rests. It is also impossible in the opened up mode for single hand operations. Single hand operations are best done when the phone is closed with the touch screen. The phone is very robust and is built to withstand harsh usage. One problem is that it is a little bulky and heavy. But to support all the features and functionality it requires to be so.
On the technology side it has a Qualcom 400 mhz processor with 128mb RAM and a 256mb ROM. Am still using it with the 1gb memory card that i got with the phone. The touch screen is quite responsive and the sound quality is neat. It does have some issues with video playback at high resolutions. The connectivity is also really good with a quad band reciever that works with almost any network possible(GSM,WCDMA,UMTS).It supports HSDPA and EDGE technologies and this gives us real fast internet connectivity. The GPS receiver is pretty good but works even better with an external antenna. The one down side is the battery life. I could use it for at-most 2 days after turning off GPRS and other power hungry technology from time to time. The GPS is a battery killer as it drains the battery quickly.
The phone runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 which is pretty good. It is not really finger friendly and requires the use of stylus at times. The built in applications are standard on any windows mobile with a few plug-ins and applications thrown in from HTC. The HTC Home plug-in now sports a 5 tab interface. Tab 1 for the clock, 2 for quick dial contacts, 3 for the local weather, 4 for shortcut to applications and 5th tab for selecting the profile. The applications run without a hitch. It allows a great deal of multi-tasking as i have tried to run over 10 different processes simultaneously and they all work without a hitch. But if the audio player is running you might notice a few pauses in the audio that is playing but that is only when too many apps are running.
All in all the phone is quite robust, it has great features and is a true pocket PC.
The price tag attached is a little high at Rs.27k thats about $600 but all pocket pcs are priced at this range. With so many plus points this is worth the price.
