[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Steve-C:
OK, I made a really bad choice of thread title! Maybe I should have added the word "Discuss" at the end... I just chose the first line of my post that was quoted in another thread for the title of this one, and started this thread in order to avoid taking over another...

Firstly, thanks for clearing up my query re heat production. Its good to know that there is little chance of my Kaiser burning a hole in my hand if / when the graphics drivers are release to take full advantage of the power of the processor.

I do agree that the camera is rather crap, for me its just something that comes with the phone and from experience with other camera phones (HTC Universal, Nokia 6230, various Motorola's) I didn't expect much from it and frankly having only used it once or twice it didn't dissapoint me due to me expecting it to be crap, will the better drivers improve the situation? If I'd wanted a decent camera phone I'd have bought a SonyEricsson. I am kind of guessing the issues here are not totally driver related, and HTC hasn't really bothered to put a decent sensor in either so all the driver improvement in the world won't help if the hardware its working with is low quality to begin with. Reasoning behind that? I have a 3/4 year old Nikon D70 as my main camera which is around the 4MP mark. I also have several other digital cameras, one which is brand new, that boast anything upto 7MP. None of them can give the results the Nikon does despite having more MP to play with (and real MP, not interpolated). I suspect this is down to the Nikon having better optics, better image sensors, and the company knowing that anyone who spends £1k+ (UKPound) on a DSLR is going to want results.

As for the phone. Well, I have a Nokia 6310i sitting around that will give me (still despite being 6/7 years old now) around a week and a half of battery life, and kick the Kaisers ass at anything phone related. The fact that this phone can still be bought 'new' shows how good that was.

I also have an old Ipaq 5450 that would pretty much take care of the PDA side of things that I use my Kaiser for (mainly Word Processing, couple it with a bluetooth connection to said Nokia 6310i and my web browsing is in the bag too) and give better battery life to boot. With the exception of an external bluetooth GPS, my old HTC Universal will do everything the Kaiser will (for my needs), and do it with a bigger screen (640x480) and better keyboard (due to it being bigger, thanks to the form factor required for the screen, there is more space to put a keyboard).

So yes, the Kaiser doesn't do anything that special. But I do like the all in one nature, I like the tilting screen, and my needs don't demand the graphic driver improvement. Long gone are the days when a business user needs a electronic equivalent of a filofax coupled with a mobile, so I accept that many business users these days will have needs that the Kaiser can't deliver due to the poor (or lack of) drivers.

I really only started this thread to get a better understanding of what these issues were and if the link I quoted in my first post had made it clear that it was showing a bug in PIE, not with the Kaiser itself, I probably wouldn't have even bothered.