[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dizzy33:
Hello,

I am a Prophet owner, and I just bought a Kaiser. I would like to give you my experience of it, maybe it will make you avoid to do the same mistake I did !

I wanted to buy this Kaiser for 3 things :

- better performances

- Built-in GPS

- hardware keyboard

The performances, for now (I mean with no overclocking), are just the same than the Prophet (wich is overclocked at 240 Mhz). Even reading AVI files is not faster. We know that this is because HTC did not make the drivers for Windows Mobile 6 to use the Qualcomm processor capabilities. Will this change in the future ? Who knows ... I don't think it will change, even if a petition for that is on the run.

Maybe in the future an overclocking utility will help us, like it did on the Prophet.

The built-in GPS works fine, from my point of view this is the only thing I have nothing to say against it, except one thing I didn't think about : I thought that having a buit-in GPS would be less power consuming, but it's wrong. When I was in my car with my prophet, all I needed was to enable the bluetooth for both the GPS and the Jabra handset, so I could answer the phone even with the GPS activated. The GPS had its own energy.

But with the built-in GPS, I also need the bluetooth to answer the phone, plus the power consomption of the GPS chipset.

So there is no power economy when you have a buit-in GPS, instead you will have a bigger power consomption.

This, of course, is not an issue when, in your car, you can plug the Kaiser to a power source. But it may be an issue when doing sport/trekking (using Vito activetrace for exemple), every time you use your GPS when you're not in your car (in that case, I had a better autonomy with my Prophet and an external GPS).

The hardware keyboard disapointed me. All the keys on it don't give the same feeling when using it. I mean for exemple one key will give a soft feeling, another will give a hard feeling... Many people in the Kaiser threads report that typing fast on this keyboard is difficult because sometimes you think you pressed the key and it's not the case, sometimes you think you pressed it twice without wanting this ... I had a HTC universal, the keys feeling was a lot better on the universal, but the device was bigger...

Also the spacebar sometimes produce a "double-click" feeling when you press it, just depending on where you put your finger on it. This is very annoying because you never know if you pressed it once or twice.

So when using the Kaiser keyboard, you always need to look at the screen to be sure that every pressed keys just answered !

In the first weeks I had it, I prefered to use the onscreen keyboard ! Now, I am trying to get used of the hardware keyboard, but it's sometimes painfull.

The pad is a lot better on the Prophet. When you press the Kaiser pad, you have a "looseness" feeling, in fact the pad moves itself (for about 1 millimeter). It gives the feeling that the Kaiser is a cheap device. Also, the size of the pad is very bad for gaming : it is so wide that you need to move your finger from one side of it to the other side. You just can't play very fast action games (I'm think about "Commando" on the C64 emulator for exemple).

Also when you push the pad too hard, the screen moves a little just like if you wanted to open the hardware keyboard.

For sure, this is not a gaming machine, the Prophet was a lot better for this !

The fact the pad is moving, and that the Kaiser is made of plastic (instead of metal for the Prophet), makes me want to protect more my Kaiser than my Prophet. So I need to buy a leather case for my Kaiser, wich increases the size that my Kaiser takes in my pocket (I didn't feel the need to buy a case for my Prophet). The Kaiser is also a lot heavier, but difficult to blame on this when you know all the Kaiser has inside... or can we ?

Also :

- no more infrared port (I was using it on my Prophet to sync with my laptop).

- no more headset connector (now you need to use an adapter to connect it on the USB port !).

- micro-sd door quality very poor ! Each time I open it, I think I'll break it.

- 3 Megapixels camera as bad as the 2 Megapixels of the Prophet (even with the autofocus feature).

I wanted to sell my Prophet and its external GPS, but I really love this device. Now I don't know wich one to sell !

So again, if you plan to buy a Kaiser, just think twice. I hope with my post you will be now advised of the Kaiser issues, so if you buy it anyway you will not say what I said "Oh ****, I didn't know !".