Polaris or Kaiser???

[Rafael1000]

Hello,

I want to buy a new PDAphone and i hesitate between HTC kaiser and touch cruise.
An important point for me is the customisation from developers.
I've seen that Kaiser has very much customised roms, tweaks... Very interesting and attracting for me !!!

I expect this will be the same for Polaris...

My question is : do you think there will be much developers for HTC touch Cruise, like with Kaiser ? Because actually there are very few resources for Touch Cruise and no customised roms...

If Kaiser interests many community developers, even in long term I'll buy it.
But if Touch Cruise (polaris) is promitted to the same future that Kaiser for optimisations (roms...), I prefer buying Touch Cruise.

SO what do you think?

Thank you and sorry for my english, i'm french ;)

[BadTasteUK]

Hi there, the only reason there are not many customisations / hacks for the polaris / touch cruise, is because it's so new. If you have a read through this forum, you'll see we're all awaiting the first cooked rom. ;)

[gnick666]

The Polaris has only been released recently, so don't expect everything in first month or so... The Kaiser community had time to develop.
The bugs are being wokred out and tweaks are being found as we post on this forum.
But the first cooked ROMs are arriving soon, so if yo don't need the slide-out keyboard, the the Polaris is a must :D

[Rafael1000]

Thanks for your answers, effectively I don't want to pay 100€ more for a slide-out keyboard because I don't write emails, I use only SMS. Keyboard of my previous HTC S710 (Vox) was great but a touch keyboard is perfect for me.

Two things are scaring me with Polaris:

- The problem of sound volume and quality:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360650
My phone will be my only MP3 player and I use this fonction several hours a day, so I want a good sound and great volume, especially with my Koss headphones (I have a mini usb --> jack adaptator).
If this problem isn't fixed, i will regret to buy Touch Cruise...

- And the problem of video driver, i know HTC Kaiser also have it and it is annoying...

[gnick666]

On the sound issue, my personal oppinion differs from that thread... I don't have any issues whith the sound... maybe the external speaker is a bit quiet, but the headset feels great :D

And yes. The driver... the chipsets RAW power makes it fairly useable, and even faster is some cases than the competitors...

I didn't regret buying it, but still, if you can try it out before buying.

[Rafael1000]

I see that HTC Kaiser has a great success with developers:
On XDA, there are 90 000 Posts for Kaiser and 33 000 for HTC Elf (touch), and the Kaiser is more recent than the Touch !

So do you think that developers will prefere in the future customising Artemis or Kaiser? Do you think that Polaris will be so much tweaked that Kaiser is actually or will be, or do you think that Artemis will have less success than Kaiser?

I tell that question because the hardware of the 2 phones is the same, I like both models, and it will be the customisation (official roms, tweaked roms, tweaks...) that will made for me a real difference between the phones.

So which phone will have the best evolutivity and community support? HTC Touch Cruise or HTC Kaiser?

HTC Kaiser has a great potential, the numbers of messages and customisations about it are enormous on XDA developers (it attracts me very much) ! So, do you think that Polaris will have a comparable success, or would I do better to buy the kaiser ???

Thx in advance and sorry for my (i think) ugly english :D

[Top Mario]

Hi Rafael1000

You already know the answer to your question, but may be you are looking for someone to tell you.

Go on and get that Polaris sexy device, is much thinner than Kaiser, weight less, looks much better and by the time you get use to, you will have your new rom and else ready. You said it, you don't need the sliding keyboard, so why to carry one in your pocket!