[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] undac:
As the video seems to be really low res (QVGA at most) it should work, (we don't know about the bitrate but I'm assuming it's fairly low too).

Most of us who are complaining want a seamless experience. Ie we want to watch the regular videos we want on our computers on our mobile device.

IE scrolling seems nice enough, that seems to differ a bit between ROMs.

I can just share my experience from strart to "finish":

I read up on what device to get. Kaiser was very much hyped at the time. I took the time to read their webpage where they claim that the phone is "more powerful than any other mobile communicator". The same text says that the device is equally good for business and pleasure. It also reccomends using it for gaming:

http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_tytn_II.htm

"More powerful than any mobile communications device you've seen before"

"perfectly for reading and creating e-mails, using applications, or even just playing games."

"Always ready for business - and pleasure"

I also took the time to check out the MSM7200 processor and what that was all about.

Now my primary focus is business. I wanted Office Mobile and a nice contact manager etc. I have no gripes there.

The problem started showing up when I came to the gaming/pleaasure part.

I tried dragging and dropping some TV shows (700kbps 512x384 res) and the playback is prety lousy.

So I went out and bought CorePlayer for 25 bucks. First result was even worse. So then I figured out that I actually had to turn off the standard Windows Mobile rendering interface called DirectDraw. Seemed strange enough as this is THE standard interface for drawing video on a windows mobile device. With a lot of tweaking I got semi acceptable playback in the end.

A day later I started playing around with the camera. It took me about five seconds to realize that it was utterly flawed. Shutter speed (or rather the processing speed) makes the delay from the point where you click the button to where the picture is taken was so slow that none of my pictures came out right.

It's also exceedingly difficult to use the viewfinder seeing as it runs at less than 5 fps and with extreme blur.

Capturing video was also a downer. Instead of the 30 fps @ VGA resolution that the chipset touts I'm getting 10-15 fps and I might add that to me it looks like it's even less than that. Utterly unwatchable.

So ok, video playback and the camera was pretty awful. But as I said I mainly intended to use this for business so I didn't think much more of it.

So I tried surfing a bit on the web. I run a website and I wanted to check my bak account.

What I noticed was that as soon as I visited a "non-Mobile" website everything slowed down. Scrolling takes forever, and also simply rendering the page takes "too" long.

The mobile pages of my service provider works like a charm, but that's a no brainer seeing as they are meant to work on everything from the cheapest 50 dollar phones and up.

Then came the weekend. I was off to some friends that live out in the country. I had to go there by train.

So "hey, great time to load it up with some games".

Some of the games I've heard of was legend of steel and call of duty 2.

Well call of duty 2 was just as mess, with no open gl support.

legend works pretty well unless you actually try to play the game. As soon as the stylus hits that screen everything start going in slow motion.

I resorted to playing bubble breaker and tetris for the trip.

By this time I was pretty annoyed since my 3 year old Sony Ericsson el cheapo 3G-phone gave me a much better gaming experience than this.

So then I resorted to emulators. I really wanted to try out some nice emulating but again, performance was too low.

I didn't expect the TyTN II to be a Playstation Portable challenger but I didn't expect it to be just a typing machine with a calendar attached to it either.

I found this forum and surely enough I found out about the lack of drivers and everything suddenly made sense.

And the thing that bugs me the most about this is that the drivers are readily available to HTC, they just choose not to provide them to us.

So personally I'm a bit pissed off and I surely won't consider HTC a first hand alternative the next time I go shopping for a new PDA phone.

/Scincerele signed "Business users who expected more"

there you go (actually a true story even though a made it cheesy on purpose. :))

oh yeah, PS I'm also pretty irritated by the lag that you get when you put the phone in landscape mode or vice versa. And the slight lag that happens when you start programs (you can actually see how the device renders in approx 10-20 lines at a time) it's not a deal breaker but I certainly expected more, especially since I've used similar phones using both pal, symbian and windows mobile and other OSes (even really cheap ones) that don't exhibit the same symptoms.

Still it's only a minor gripe...