HTC T7272 Touch Pro Smartphone
£450.00
Good but... - I so wanted to fall in love with this phone, but the damned thing is just too slow and temperamental. Take the iWannabe touchFlo interface which is, like, really cool. For about five minutes, after which you get fed up to the back teeth waiting for it to respond. Scrolling between tabs takes an age and often freezes. Attempting to navigate webpages on the woeful Opera random-zoom browser is hell on earth - it s got a mind of its own. I couldn t believe the phone-answering-in-the-pocket business could be true, but - yup - HTC have designed a touch sensitive screen that becomes active in your pocket and rejects precisely 100% of your incoming calls. That must be number one thing on the we re designing a touch screen phone: which problems are we likely to encounter? list. Incredible.Another maddening design aspect is the contoured Diamond back. You would have though this might serve some ergonomic purpose, but when you pull the keyboard out and place the phone on a flat surface it actually tilts away from you and rocks around making typing impossible. Uh?! The keyboard itself, although it feels like it is going to snap off the phone any time soon, is really very good indeed. All that said, you can tweak this thing into quite a pretty good phone. The Answerkeys Disabler app solves the pocket problem. The TF3D Config app improves the TouchFlo performance no end. Using Internet Explorer over Opera gives more reliable browsing experience. As with all WinMO phones syncs with Outlook work like a dream. The screen, while a mite small at 2.5, is very sharp and bright. I very nearly sent this phone back but have learned to cope with it. It s just a real shame it takes days of twiddling to get the thing working to its full potential. That s not really what you hope for in a ear-bleedingly expensive phone.
STUPIDPHONE not SMARTPHONE - After owning this phone for 8 weeks I am amazed how awful it is, if ever there is a case for not fit for purpose this phone is it. HTC have tried so hard to create a slick graphic interface that they seem to have forgetten that this is in fact a phone, not just a screen with lots of pretty pictures, and it is as a phone that this device completely lacks any user friendliness. This phone cannot perform the task of making and receiving calls with any reliability. The phone dialler interface has been designed without any thought. The most annoying aspect of the phone is the inclusion of a large on-screen END CALL button, which is posibly the most stupid and pointless idea I have ever encountered on a phone. THIS IS A MAJOR FAULT WITH THE PHONE because you can t put the phone to your ear without rejecting a call, also if the phone is in your pocket, or in a case the phone will ALWAYS REJECT A CALL. HTC must have found the same problem when they tested the phone, so instead of redesigning the inteface they have just disabled the screen as soon as a call is answered, making dealing with other incoming calls or checking messages very difficult. Words cannot discribe how useless this very expensive device is as a phone. Is there anything about this phone that I like..hmmm lets think...no.It crashes, the user interface is a step back from the previous one, the phone often needs restting, the reception is awful, the speaker is almost silent, the glossy case gets grubby almost instantly, GPS connection is slow causing Satnav software to lag, the Music player will not sync with Windows media player, the keyboard is buggy, battery life is poor, the on screen keyboard changes from alpha numeric to Qwerty and sync with Outlook can be problematic. In summation, I have owned and used PDA s for around 7 years now, and this smartphone has to be the most awful device I have ever owned. I am so fed up with it I have begun using my old phone.