HTC Touch Pro Aka Raephel Vs HTC Touch Diamond

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Hi,
I am in Delhi (india), and need to buy a new PDA. I am not able to make up my mind on Touch Diamond or Touch pro. HTC touch pro is not yet launched here, and will be launched soon... if somebody knows the date of launch, please let me know.
Can somebody advice me, if it is worth waiting for Touch pro, or go ahead and buy Diamond.

Thanks.

The Touch Pro has the following extra things:
- Slide out keyboard
- 288Mb RAM rather than 192Mb
- 512Mb ROM rather than 256Mb (Diamond also has build in memory for file storage - eg, music etc)
- Flash to go with camera
- more powerful battery
- microSD slot instead of 4Gb built in memory
- fair bit thicker (almost 1cm I think)
- TV out (though an extra cable which needs to be purchased)

You can see a side by side comparison here:

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdacomp...=1306&id2=1311

Wrong, the Raphael does not have more ROM. The Diamond has 4gb ROM while the Raphed has only 512mb. I'm pretty sure it's more thicker than an cm, especially when you consider the keyboard

Originally Posted by kareem9nba

Wrong, the Raphael does not have more ROM. The Diamond has 4gb ROM while the Raphed has only 512mb. I'm pretty sure it's more thicker than an cm, especially when you consider the keyboard

Right, 18mm to 11.5mm I believe.

It's really not that thick though, believe me...

Originally Posted by kareem9nba

Wrong, the Raphael does not have more ROM. The Diamond has 4gb ROM while the Raphed has only 512mb. I'm pretty sure it's more thicker than an cm, especially when you consider the keyboard

To clarify...

The Diamond has 256Mb + the 4Gb storage, whereas the Diamond has 512Mb + microSD card slot.

Originally Posted by grahamrb

To clarify...

The Diamond has 256Mb + the 4Gb storage, whereas the Diamond has 512Mb + microSD card slot.

True, however ROM is what's built in so i took it that's what you mean No biggy, good clarification for all.

Very Importantly , It depends on convenience. If you do a lot of typing and used to hardware keyboards then Raphael is a go
If you are used to onscreen keyboard , Touch Diamond has a good onscreen keyboard which gets very comfortable to use.Further , raphael has extra ram ( 288 , but again 64 mb may be off for Graphics processor as diamond )and provides storage card slot.

Originally Posted by kareem9nba

True, however ROM is what's built in so i took it that's what you mean No biggy, good clarification for all.

Well, I think the bigger part is that firmware can't be put on the 4GB fixed memory or the microSD card, so the Raphael has more room for that.

Thanks everyone for replying back. Any idea when is "Raphael" launching in India or in Delhi for that matter. And what is the expected price for it ?

Originally Posted by Black93300ZX

Well, I think the bigger part is that firmware can't be put on the 4GB fixed memory or the microSD card, so the Raphael has more room for that.

All very true, I will edit my post to try to clarify.