HTC Touch Dual -Will original Touch owners feel the love?

[darthbane2k]

Okay the new virtual keyboard, contacts app, photos app,home screen and gestures all look great with the Touch Dual, but will original touch owners be able to enjoy this by way of an update? Ive heard nothing. Im a bit pissed actually, I know technology moves fast but the Touch is only 4 months or so old, its still a relatively new device and I feel HTC sold me half a product.

[hitenkanani]

As quoted on techtree.com

After a successul release in Japan, HTC now plans to officially launch the Touch Dual mobile phone for Europe. The Touch Dual measures 107x55x15.8-mm and weighs 120-grams. It supports WCDMA/HSDPA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access/High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) 2100MHz and GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900MHz networks. It also features the TouchFLO interface over Windows Mobile 6 Professional and a 2.6" QVGA touch-screen and is powered by a 400MHz Qualcomm MSM7200 processor. It comes with 256MB flash, 128MB RAM, and microSD expansion; Bluetooth 2.0+EDR; 802.11b/g WiFi; HTC ExtUSB (HTC's mini USB 2.0 jack with support for data and audio); and a battery to keep you talking for upto 240 mins on WCDMA and upto 360 minutes on GSM frequencies.

[Regularno]

Okay the new virtual keyboard, contacts app, photos app,home screen and gestures all look great with the Touch Dual, but will original touch owners be able to enjoy this by way of an update?

doubtful,.. but hope dies last! :rolleyes:

[koala996]

There will be an update for the keyboard.. that's sure ! but for the rest we will see... it seems possible to have everything "software" if the rom are quite the same.. but we can't say this without the touch dual roms.

HTC promises the keyboard for the touch .... but for the rest.. nothing is said yet.

[RaptorRVL]

Ofcourse they aint gonna give that to us. They want you to buy the 'new and better' Touch. They already have your money, but they want mmmoooOOORE!
*ahwem*
Anyway, there might be a chance we get it for the Touch. And otherwise I'm sure someone will be able to get it from the Touch Dual :).
But looking at how succesful the Touch is in sales, this is the moment for HTC to show how they are in the after sales.

Coming from the s100 and s200 I'm not too confident in all this though, but we'll see! :D

[lukeap69]

some of the new features for the dual is surely plus for me. i don't like the smaller screen and bulkiness of the unit compared to the touch. but who knows, when i see it personally on shops, i might get one also to play with.

[murrun]

i think pdaviet or another developer will include this functions to their roms for prophet and old htc touchs.

[goTouch]

No wifi :confused: :confused:

[hashbrown]

I dont think we will want to wait for HTC to release an update for these features. This sounds like a job for.... someone else. I bet a developer will write a app that will implement these features. Touch Dual looks great, I like the direction HTC is going but not giving this device Wlan is really lame. It's also being released as the O2 XDA Star, but quadband.

[terra65]

No wifi? As far as I can see wifi is one of the features....in previous specs I've seen GPS - which is missing now - which would be for me the only reason to swich

[alexandera]

Do you think GPS is on board, but disabled???

[Regularno]

Do you think GPS is on board, but disabled???

Qualcomm MSM7200 processor technical features:
...
gpsOne® position-location assisted-GPS (A-GPS) solution
...
http://www.cdmatech.com/products/msm7200_chipset_solution.jsp

[providence]

one of the things that made me switch to Htc Touch was wifi. Since the HTC Slide doesnt have wifi, then i dont think its worth the change

[qwertypt]

The lack of wifi let me down too.
I've been waiting for the new touch with 3.5G, but no wifi is a big no no for me. Let's see if they update the software on the original touch, if they do, I'll buy one, if they don't, I won't buy any of them, I'll just wait. Form factor wise, I think the original touch is cooler :)

[scuby]

Yep, my ideal phone (at the minute) would be the Touch, but with built-in GPS, a faster processor and larger storage. But processor and storage don't bother me too much (overclocked and a 6GB memory card) so only issue is the lack of built-in GPS - means I have to use a separate bluetooth GPS, which is rather inconvenient at times :(

David

[evlimeca]

400mhz is awfully fast. the touch is 201, i think most people can get it running close to 300 with overclocking but that just means the new one is gonna scream, nothing better than streaming porn to classmates and coworkers via bluetooth!

seriously though, the tech upgrades alone might be worth picking one up, espcially considering it will probably have the same customization options our touches have now.

[LittleBigBen]

i just love my touch and wouldn want any other phone now! it just has everything and i like the fact that the only keys are the ones to make calls...
i dont mine useing the touchkeyboard and the 201MHr are enough i think...
gps doesnt bother me neither... only people with a bad sence of orentation need pgs ;)

[Nikesh1980]

Hi
Does anyone know on what network the touch dual is going to be released in the uk?
Is it going to be available on t-mobile? If so when?

Thanx
Nik

[xYphooN]

hey guys !
watch this rewiew of the htc touch dual
http://smape.com/en/reviews/htc/HTC_Touch_Dual-rev.html

[benchmark75]

wow i just read the review, it seems the old Touch is better at quite a number for stuff especially graphics and many multimedia.

With the higher price, minus Wifi, and smaller screem, we (with the old touch) shouldnt feel too bad guys :rolleyes:

[tankzar]

Why would the Touch Slide not have WiFi? :confused:

[koala996]

Why would the Touch Slide not have WiFi? :confused:

because it uses too much battery ... and it is more a phone than a pda... it's rare a phone with wifi ... and it have many other possibilites that are less battery eating ..

[tankzar]

They shouldve put more thought into the device by adding WiFi. Even if that means adding a bigger battery or making the phone a tad bit bigger. Cost would be too high in such a case though.

[Seed123]

I don't like this new Touch at all.. gonna stick with the old 1 and hope we get these new features somehow.. if not, nevermind..

[alexandera]

Qualcomm MSM7200 processor technical features:
...
gpsOne® position-location assisted-GPS (A-GPS) solution
...
http://www.cdmatech.com/products/msm7200_chipset_solution.jsp

Call me stupid, but that means that it is for SURE GPS ON BOARD???

[Thyraz]

nope, there is no wifi and also no gps.