Best HTC phone as of right now?

[PhroztBite]

Hey guys! I am an avid reader of this forum and i was just wondering.....i'm looking to upgrade to another HTC phone. I currently have the wizard and i LOVE it! Just curious as to which HTC phone i should upgrade to, Are any of them as "open source" (for lack of a better term) as the wizard? As far as the community and the custom roms go? Any suggestions?
I was looking at the Tilt? is that a good choice?
Also, when i am buying one is there anything to watch out for like there is with the wizard? Like the G3 and G4 versions

[XabdullahX]

TYTN 2 !!!!

[PhroztBite]

Hmmm....i've kinda spent the last few hours just browsing through the forums on the newer phones, apparently there is some kind of video driver issue with the Kaiser....should i wait for maybe the touch cruise?

[stmasi]

I will second XabdullahX's vote of the TYTN 2!!!

[mfrazzz]

Hmmm....i've kinda spent the last few hours just browsing through the forums on the newer phones, apparently there is some kind of video driver issue with the Kaiser....should i wait for maybe the touch cruise?

I also vote that the Kaiser/Tilt/Tytn II is the way to go (I bought the Tilt and am loving it). Its a little different with the key layout than the wizard. I'm getting more used to everything being around the D Pad, but at first I didn't care for this (I still have to be careful not to hang up on a call when trying to press the right soft key). The phone has a ton of memory and is fast.

What you've been reading about in the Kaiser forums on the video driver is that the phone is capable of so much more, but HTC isn't using the proper drivers. What it does do is still very good, and personally I'm very happy with it and feel it was money WELL spent... Supposedly a media player app (don't recall which offhand but its a commercial one) is coming out with a new version that has fixed drivers or something in it. A lot of people are waiting to get their hands on this to see if they can use that to improve some other things.

So if you are a heavy watcher of movies or high performance games, you may want to evaluate the Kaiser/Tilt/Tytn II a little more. But for the majority of the uses of a PPC, its a fantastic phone...

OK, not to brag, but I have my Tilt fully loaded right now with Dutty's 7b ROM and a lot of apps (almost everything I have loaded into the phone's memory and not to my storage card). I have 85MB of free storage memory and 55MB of RAM free. HUGE change compared to the Wizard where you are trying to eek out every bit of space by cramming everything on your SD card and not having but a couple of apps open at a time to conserve precious RAM...

[surur]

Yep, the Kaiser it is, or if you dont need a keyboard the Polaris.

Surur

[shawndh]

I like the kaiser a lot too, but from personal experience, they have some issues with these devices. Hardware and software related. In particular, the BT Stack seems to um, SUCK big time. A couple of my friends had them (Tilts) and they both had horrible BT performance. Either they couldn't connect to certain Headsets/Car Kits or they couldn't walk five feet away from the device while connected without a bunch of static. These are common problems.

I'm waiting to see if they announce some kind of fix for that. It may just be the Tilt versions - not really sure, but BT stack issues are major to me. I always use BT.

[Rudegar]

apart from the fm radio and no keyboard and screen the cruse is pretty much the same hardware as kaiser so unless that suffer from the same driver issue as kaiser

only the keyboard thing should be the factor of which one to get if you ask me

[mfrazzz]

I like the kaiser a lot too, but from personal experience, they have some issues with these devices. Hardware and software related. In particular, the BT Stack seems to um, SUCK big time. A couple of my friends had them (Tilts) and they both had horrible BT performance. Either they couldn't connect to certain Headsets/Car Kits or they couldn't walk five feet away from the device while connected without a bunch of static. These are common problems.
I must be lucky. I work in a home office upstairs in our house, and I can use my jawbone BT connected to my Tilt and walk downstairs to the kitchen and only get a small amount of scratching sound. When I was using my Wizard, by the time I got to the bottom of the stairs I knew I had forgoten my phone as the scratching and popping sounds were pretty bad.

Could be that this was because I was using the unofficial AKU AT&T ROM (I immediately upgraded to this when I got my Tilt as I at first understood it was an official AT&T upgrade). Now running Dutty's 7b which is based off the HTC rom and my BT sound is even better and more clear than the AT&T roms ever were, so it could be more the AT&T rom than the HTC rom with BT issues.

[jug6ernaut]

i just got my tilt(kaiser) and in my personal oppinon...it totally kicks ass...seriously. i was kinda wondering bc of how much it coses but let me assure it was well worth it

[Chainfire]

The Kaiser is a terrific device and I'm very happy with it. Ofcourse there are some issues (like the video drivers, and audio glitch) that do not make it perfect for all uses.

If you want to play a lot of games or video or so, don't go for the Kaiser right now - that situation might improve, I'd wait and see what happens.

Note that the Touch variants all have the same issue.

[maati]

HTC TyTN II and HTC Touch Cruise (same as TyTN II but without keyboard) are the best phones out there.

[Pumpiron579]

Call me crazy but I like the wizard still. I have a Hermes 8525, Faraday 2125 and I tried out the Tilt for a day. Not much differant then the Hermes but has a ton of memory. For a smart phone, the Faraday is awesome.

[jug6ernaut]

Call me crazy but I like the wizard still. I have a Hermes 8525, Faraday 2125 and I tried out the Tilt for a day. Not much differant then the Hermes but has a ton of memory. For a smart phone, the Faraday is awesome.
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agreed...i LOVE my kaiser....but at the end of the day im always like damn that wizard was one hell of a phone....seriously

[character]

i have a 8125 and a 8525 also tried tilt because my friend has one and he let me plaay with it for a day

if your looking for speed of course go to 400mhz but it does not mean that wizard is slow because of frequent change in roms it can match the speed more or less

only thing here is the memory of course tilt has the most; second is tytan and last but not the least is my 8125... what makes the wizard advantageous is that it has a double speaker unlike tytan the speaker is placed at the back it produces less sounds in a process

I dont know if 4gig or 8gig can support the wizard but it has happened to kasier and tytan

IMHO:
one last and important thing that I have noticed is in the wizard forum all of the good rom makers has not made roms nowadays??? that is the only sad part
in kaiser and tytan rom makers are very much active this makes the HUGE difference between the phone :):):)

[Pumpiron579]

IMHO:
one last and important thing that I have noticed is in the wizard forum all of the good rom makers has not made roms nowadays??? that is the only sad part
in kaiser and tytan rom makers are very much active this makes the HUGE difference between the phone :):):)

Did you forget XM6R5, That rom is awesome.

[character]

yeah aside from mfrazzz... I miss the times when there are too many roms to choose from maybe it is because people here know now about cooking and still I am a noob :):):) for cooking and trust cookers t put there files here???

oh well I can only blame myself actually...

[JamminJaguar]

As my Nike is bust (see my sig) I will probably be looking to get another HTC phone in it's place. So I'm asking the same question.

From what I've read the Kaiser and TyTn 2 are the best, am I right in thinking that one of these two would be the best phones to have? Like the first post, I'd like a phone that's 'open source' so to speak (ie. popular, lots of mods for it) and WiFi and SD slot.

[mike21pr]

i can ask nothing more out of my vogue, till i get my hands on the touch HD

[rkwhyte2]

My vote is for the Tilt/Kaiser. I bought mine off craigslist for $200. Best $200 I'd spent in some time. I love my Wizard but the ROM's available for the Kaiser are just amazing and the device itself is fast, Stable, and just plain fun to work with.

Kirby

[mbarvian]

i bought my kaiser in may. best phone ive ever had

however, i love what you guys are sharing (roms, kitchens, etc.) on this forum. in kaiser rom development, information and advice is very hard to find, and kitchens and such are almost never shared

i dont have a wizard, but if i did, this is where i would be spending my spare time

keep it up guys :)

[amey]

I have HTC Wizard, but I upgraded to HTC Kaiser 2 months back. Kaiser is Awesome. Wizard was Awesome too. I used it as PDA, GPS and car music player also ( due to change of battery, stereo system got locked and asking for codes, which I couldnt find ) but every Device has a time limit, so I guess for wizard, its time.

Good things about Kaiser, 400mhz speed, Inbuilt GPS, and 3.2 mp camera.
on Negative, little heavy than Wizard.

Lately, HTC annouced few phones to look for. HTC HD is one of them.

[jwzg]

I got the chance to use my colleague's Tilt for a few days and loaded it with HTC's new 6.1 ROM. I like it more than my Wizard in terms of form and function, but the battery life blows. It could be because it's taken a few spills, but any device should be able to withstand some abuse and not overheat or lose charge like this one does.

[Stu_Can_Sam]

I love my tilt. i came from a land where unintelligent smartphones were common. I was using a Motorola Q9H and my wife had the BlackJack. Both were operable in function, but neither was fun to use. I now consider myself a convert. The versatility of the tilt is astounding, and I'm not sure that another phone could best it (currently).;)