Poll please vote: Would you purchase the P3600 again?

[Craic Dub]

I am trying to figure out, which GPS Phone to purchase and I am hoping that you guys can give me some insides of your user experiences with the P3600.

[Craic Dub]

After some further research, I am leaning towards the P3600 rather then Eten or Pharos.

This poll is starting to confirm that the users are pretty happy with the Trinity.

[Craic Dub]

It looks that the majority is quite happy with the P3600 - good to know!

Now, if HTC starts shipping units with corrected paint jobs, then I am in for one and will retire the Prophet.

[Moaske]

It looks that the majority is quite happy with the P3600 - good to know!

Now, if HTC starts shipping units with corrected paint jobs, then I am in for one and will retire the Prophet.

Who cares about some paint man!... I don't think any mobile phone that is put through daily use and abuse holds it's paint for very long...
It's about the tech inside; that's just awesome with this P3600 dude! :D

[Craic Dub]

Who cares about some paint man!... I don't think any mobile phone that is put through daily use and abuse holds it's paint for very long...
It's about the tech inside; that's just awesome with this P3600 dude! :D


To me, this is a very important issue!

I take good care of my gadgets, so that I am able to sell my stuff and re-invest in new toys a year later - that is a normal cycle in my eyes.

I currently own a Prophet and even after a year of daily use, the device is in excellent condition and I am planing on selling it for $300 in order to be able to buy the P3600. So, if the P3600 looks like crap after two month of use, then this decreases the re-sell value, which poses a problem.

On the positive side though, the P3600 seems to be a great toy and the paint issue really is just a cosmetic problem (which I really, really hope they will fix very soon)

[lmjabreu]

"So, if the P3600 looks like crap after two month of use, then this decreases the re-sell value, which poses a problem."

The paint problem is subjective, I also bough a black P3600, in november 06, I have a minimal paint problem, when I tried to show it to my sis she didn't even see it, but it is there, it peeled of because of the memory card cover, when I opened it it scraped(i think that's the right word) a little bit of the paint.

My glossy screen protector worries me more than that tiny piece of paint, I miss the shiny screen lol.

[Svenitos]

I would purchase the HTC P4500 (HTC Kaiser) (http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=733) or the HTC P5500 (HTC Nike) (http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=736), which are currently not yet available..
So I maybe would have wait till they were released before buying the P3600.
They both got gps, fm radio,...

[Guybrush]

Kaiser no FM radio.... but it's not correct compare p3600 with phones that not available at the moment :)

[Craic Dub]

I would purchase the HTC P4500 (HTC Kaiser) (http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=733) or the HTC P5500 (HTC Nike) (http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=736), which are currently not yet available..
So I maybe would have wait till they were released before buying the P3600.
They both got gps, fm radio,...

I like the look and specs of the Kaiser but I would not want to be the first one to go through a test cycle and subsequent bug fixes of a new released model.

The Nike is a smartphone right?

[Svenitos]

I see indeed that the Kaiser has no FM radio, weird, I thought I read somewhere it did..
Anyways, it has a built-in flash camera etc.

The Nike is a bit in between of pda and smartphone, I don't know what it really is.. It has a touchscreen, has a camera with built-in flash etc.


But if they wouldn't be releashed in the future, I would definately go for the P3600.

[Looking Glass]

Making purchase choices, based on specs only, for machines that need months to come to market..... Get the real thing! By the time they are "stable" products, the P3600 would have been near 2 years in the market..... IMHO we, xda-dev readers, don't hold our machines that long...... just read most senior signatures....

Enjoy your 3600 as much as you can, this is TODAY the best PDA/PHONE/GPS/3G etc A-V-A-I-L-A-B-L-E

[dave the hampster]

I really like my Trinity.
I've only had it for about 2 months now, but in general I'm very well pleased.

I hav't had any of the paintpeeling problems - I bought a white one and have put it in a silicon cover as I have a bit of a grip problem holding anything.

I did have a problem with a 4GB memory card, I kept a lot of media files ot it and Windows Media player wouldn't see the card and update its library. There are plenty of threads about that one and its easy sorted.

You can have a few problems with the GPS unless you manually configure the Comm port to 9 and the baud rate to 4800, after doing that, I get a valid fix withn 2 minutes, although the strength of the receiver is quite weak in comparrison to some other units and you can lose the fix. But hey, its a PDA not a garmin.

I am a bit dissapointed with video media playback, the trinity being a bit slow sometimes.

It has enough processing power for most things and is elatively fast enough.

the camera is decent for a PDA, way better than most phones.

Overall though - well reccomended, best PDA I've had so far. out of the 6 i've owned.

[Hoash]

I think that my vote will change if HTC will not upgrate p3600 to WM 6. If so; I will never buy any HTC product in the future.

[El_Mariachi]

I have mixed feelings, I'm probably satisfied with it, but I'm not over the moon. I still feel it's quite slow for the apps that I need to run on it, and the RAM is a bit low too. In terms of the looks, it's pretty nice, I would like it to be a bit thinner but it's not that much of an issue.

If I had to get a device unconnected, I wouldn't have bought the Trinity, I probably would have waited about a month for something from the I-Mate Ultimate range...but the Trinity, aka M700 was the best thing I could find on UK Networks, which specifically has to be Orange for me anyway!