Touch Dual Reviews

[gogol]

After you have your new Touch Dual and played it for awhile, what do you think?

Share your thought please :)

Built quality, speed, responsiveness, battery life, etc.

At least how do you rate it? 1 (worst) - 5 (excellent)

[batista70]

I did a video review for italian forums :

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=VsOF5JrmHug

[rolandrat]

In the last year or less I've owned a S710, Tytn, Touch (elf), tytn2, S730 and now Dual (nike).
I've given up on smartphones, the 730 was a mistake I had it 1 day and just couldn't cope without the full PPC interface. The tytn2 was very good, but for me was just too heavy and bulky, I loved the Touch (elf) but it was not 3G and was slow for me. So the Dual does a very good job for me. I dont need the wireless as I never used it on any of the phones I had. Its quick and looks good. Overall happy so far..... but then the Cruise is out next, so you never know (although it looks a bit ugly!)

[therealholg]

i like mine ... but here are more thougts:

http://www.coolsmartphone.com/article740.html
http://www.theunwired.net/?item=review-o2-xda-star-windows-mobile-6-professional-smartphone

[who_else]

But it is not a 5 for me, just a 4,75, because i miss wifi. Since i got a T-mobile Hotspot flatrate, i am sad, not being able to use it with my Touch Dual. I can use it with my Communicator, but the Nokia is quite bulky and i love the size of the Dual.

I know, i cannot have everything i want; actually i would have stayed with the Communicator, if it would have had UMTS; but this way i end up to have two smartphones, two worlds and each of them missing a feature, the other one offers.

And i also wanted to give a shot at Windows mobile...

So to make a short story long:

Pros:
- Display
- Ease of use (keys & touchpad)
. quite fast
- customisable
- might support 16 GB micro SD card.
- no prob with connecting to my car's bluetooth; first try, and it worked. The Nokia is a real pita, since it seems to loose the connection to the car every two or three weeks or so and it takes several tries to pair them.


Cons:
- no wifi (this really bother me, but if the device is able to do it, i would pay for upgrading it)
- no gps (this doesn't bother me at all, but if the device is able to do it, it should be upgradeable to enable it)
- I'd like to have a real carrying case not just this kind of sock....
- They should give you a micro SD card (i have an unbranded, unlocked HTC phone)

Perhaps there are some more issues later, but as of today i like it.

The other options include the Cruise, but it doesn't have a hardware keypad and the heralds/kaisers are too bulky...

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[therealholg]

i think they left out gps and wifi for marketing reasons. there is surely space for at least one antenna. the wizard had a telescopic stylus and that wasn't so bad. and there is space underneath the battery if they wouldn't be using such a bulky battery cover.

but who would take a polaris or a kaiser??

[Pharaohnough]

Check out this review I posted 18 days ago when I got my Touch Dual
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346999

[ohyeahar]

I've had mine for a bit over 2 weeks now. Very happy with it. No wifi is not a big deal for me since I find it quite difficult to locate free hotspots anyway. Besides 3G is not too expensive in my area. The only thing that can be done better would be to make the screen more sensitive a-la the iPhone/iPod Touch. I find I have to use a considerable amount of pressure to fingerscroll on the Touch Dual.

[stmcgill]

I'm going to try to compare it to the S730 and TyTN II (should be interesting to see which wins...)

http://www.clieuk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14706

[Pharaohnough]

I'm going to try to compare it to the S730 and TyTN II (should be interesting to see which wins...)

http://www.clieuk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14706

I would compare it to the TyTN II but not the S730... I don't think it's just to compare a PPC with a Smartphone... the PPC will always win :p

[stmcgill]

Not convinced by that- there S730 has some very worthy attributes:)

[dnts]

I got a Dual and a Tytn II at the same time and am trying to make up my mind which of them remains and which one gets sold... I decided to give each a week. The Dual had it's week and now it's the Tytn II. I must say it took me a day or two to get used to the Dual (had a Trinity before) but I liked it better with every day. Now it's the Tytn II turn and I kind of miss the Dual. Much nicer and better feel. I only wish it had GPS enabled somehow and that would have nailed the decision for me. It's a close tie as it is right now (day 3 with the Tytn II).
With the Dual, I switched the camera button into "OK" button which I missed alot. Other than that - I got used to the sparse hard key layout (or lack of).
Get me that GPS working!!!
:)

[Morghus]

Wrote a quick review (http://www.morghus.com/2007/12/10/i-got-a-cellphone/) in my blog about it.

Summary?
I'm close to being in love.

[tcs80]

I really hope there is a OK button on the keyboard. That should be standard for all PPC! The location of charging port is really annoying! I like it to be placed at bottom. However, memory card slot is brilliant idea. Wat a split character the designer is!