HTC Shift vs. HTC Athena

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I am still trying to decide what i should buy. HTC Shift, HTC Omni and HTC Kaiser will be announced in Q3 just like HTC X7501. I am still waiting as my friend WU told me to do. I will wait till Summer July or September where more juicy stuff will come and therefore I decided not to buy HTC Athena.

One is a UMPC and the other is a Pocket PC. Compare both in all ways, from price, technical spec's and style.

I find the Shift to be much better than the Athena. What do you all think?

I have the Ameo now, and by the time the novelty of that has worn off, the Shift will be out.
And of course, I'll have to have one of them as well.....

Originally Posted by nuclear

I am still trying to decide what i should buy. HTC Shift, HTC Omni and HTC Kaiser will be announced in Q3 just like HTC X7501. I am still waiting as my friend WU told me to do. I will wait till Summer July or September where more juicy stuff will come and therefore I decided not to buy HTC Athena.

One is a UMPC and the other is a Pocket PC. Compare both in all ways, from price, technical spec's and style.

I find the Shift to be much better than the Athena. What do you all think?

I will never buy the HTC Shift, and none of the UMPC. You see, i think PPC and UMPC are completely different product. I don't like UMPC, you can't turn it on in one sec, even you put it in stand by, it will still take a while. And also, none of the UMPC can last for whole day, i do not want to charge my device every so often.

I want my device to be 24hr connect to Internet to check mail, that you can't do with UMPC.

So i still prefer Athena, and don't forget this, i can use my U1000 to do remote control to my home pc.

If you compare Athena with other PPC, yes other PPC might have better spec when it comes out, but i find it quite hard to go to any smaller screen size then Athena. So again, it's all depends on personal needs and use, personally, i find Athena meets my needs

I agree with Wu. Why would need some slow device, I have it at home. When I am mobile I want something that would last for whole day, would be with me when I need it to check my emails, use it to go on MSN or Yahoo messenger, would have big screen and wont take ages to respond in some action (for instance Symbian phones).

Originally Posted by schoofter

...wont take ages to respond in some action (for instance Symbian phones).

Wait till you see E90 in action it will blow Athena apart

I don't like XP/Vista in my phone. Slow startup and wake up from hibernation is a huge problem. Another con is since it is essentially a XP/Vista machine, it uses the ordinally desktop application which comes with all none-essentially adds-on and this blown up the size they needs. 40G storage will depleted in no time.
Battery staying power is another huge issue for UMPC.
Granted E90 is quite good but Symbian apps. is more on multi-media centric, so professional softwares are quite limit and hard to come by.

Originally Posted by raven2000

Wait till you see E90 in action it will blow Athena apart

I am sure E90 would be a interesting device but after my N73 I doubt I would like any other Nokia. It is all sparkly and nice on paper and when you read it on Net it is super duper but when you start to use it then it gets on your nerves. Nokia maps is so nice on first look but would be with maps of other countries? I don't think they would ever make map for my country so no use of it and you can't use any other app for GPS because it is made just for Nokia.

Originally Posted by schoofter

and wont take ages to respond in some action (for instance Symbian phones).

Welllll, that's some really controversial statement :)
All the Symbian devices I've ever used performed WAYS faster, than their CE/WM competitors, though the specs were usually much lower.

E90 ????

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Originally Posted by raven2000

Wait till you see E90 in action it will blow Athena apart

I don't know with you all, but for me what is nokia E90 caps so beat Athena. I don't have them both, but
1. Do E90 will be supported by many software developer?
2. Do it will doing many "assistan" thing?

For me it's not a "smart phone" at all... it's just a phone...

Once again it's personal opinion, i doubt if someone already use PPC/Palm will move to NOKIA thing...

But everyone have their opinion..

Originally Posted by cornelius

I don't know with you all, but for me what is nokia E90 caps so beat Athena. I don't have them both, but
1. Do E90 will be supported by many software developer?
2. Do it will doing many "assistan" thing?

For me it's not a "smart phone" at all... it's just a phone...

Once again it's personal opinion, i doubt if someone already use PPC/Palm will move to NOKIA thing...

But everyone have their opinion..

i totally agree with you, i think E90 can only be call a phone, looks at the number of third party software that PPC has, yes it might be faster on E90. But slow is just usual for Windows device, for example, Windows is slower then Mac, but does that mean everyone will run and get Mac? No, because windows has much more application.