[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mrmega:
mikechannon,

Here is my experience.

I live in the USA and I paid a little over $900 for an HTC TYtN II. I researched for MONTHS before buying a device and as part of my research I choose to spend the extra money for the TYtN II over the Tilt for many reasons.

My specs:

HTC TyTN II with Stock ROM and radio.

ROM version 1.81.707.0 WWE

ROM Date: 9/5/07

Radio: 1.27.12.11

Protocol version: 22.45.88.07H

6GB micro card

Cyberon Voice Commander (came installed)

Sprite Backup (Installed from CD that came with unit)

WorldCard Mobile 1.0d (Installed from CD that came with unit)

Kaiser Tweak

Resco Media Suite 2007 (explorer, voice recorder, picture editor/viewer and radio)

SiriusWM5

TCPMP

Additional cabs:

Installed PIE scrolling Fix Cab

I also bought 2 spare batteries, 3 cases (1 for normal battery, 1 for extended battery, and one case for the unit with a stock battery and another compartment for small accessories. I also bought

1 bluetooth keyboard

1 Bluetooth steroe headset

1 travel charger

1 car charger

1 docking cradle w/ spare battery charger

1 emergancy AA battery charger,

1 spare OEM battery

1 3000mAh extended battery

and several cases.

After all is said and done I have about $1300 invested in my TYtN II and accessories for a device that is laggy, jerky and non-responsive across the board.

My 6 year old ComPaq Ipaq PPC performs basic pocket PC functions better and without lag than my TYtN II. It almost never lagged or jerked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't even want to talk about how much better my friends 2 or 3 year old HTC units perform (8125 and 8925).

Issues I have had since the moment I charged the device and started using it

1) Anything requiring me to touch the screen takes a long time. Anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds depending on what it is. There is no such thing as instant response to my touching the screen with a stylus or finger.

2) Scrolling a long document is jerky, laggy and sometimes even non responsive for anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds(normal is 2 - 3 secs) VERY short documents are just ok to read.

3) Before I installed the PIE scrolling fix cab, navigating any webpage was completely jerky, laggy and at times non responsive and utterly unbearable.

4) After I installed the PIE scrolling fix, it was better, but maybe only 25% or so. I STILL have major issues trying to use PIE.

Other issues:

Bluetooth: I have yet to find any bluetooth 2.0 single earpiece that sounds decent for the phone (ANY bluetooth headset on my 5 year old Nokia sounded excellent, loud, clear and warm). EVERY headset that I have tried on my TyTN II sounds thin, tinny and only at low to medium volume.

My stereo bluetooth headset does sound good for music, but I was only willing to buy one after 2 weeks worth of research to find one people said worked well. For phone use people say I sound ok with it but they sound tinny and weak.

Speakerphone:

Using the speakerphone is very bad. I can hear people ok as long as I turn the speaker down all the way. Any volume setting but the lowest and the speaker crackles and distorts. I can only be heard if the other person is not talking or if noise on their end isn't loud enough to come through.

Things my Unit does acceptably well at:

Make normal calls without the use of any bluetooth headsets or speakerphone

Send/Receive text,multimedia messages or emails. However, if someone sends me an animated cartoon message, it is laggy and jerky.

Surf the web. The actual data transfer is good, the units response using PIE is laggy and jerky (see above).

Resco file explorer or stock file explorer work pretty good most of the time. I still get lag and jerk though.

I can access contacts and appointments ok, but even these functions jerk and lag a bit (especially contacts. I probably have 200 contacts stored if not more in the unit not on the sim).

Even changing from the today screen to any other screen is laggy and even unresponsive at times.

If I try to press the top right to close a window or stop a program, I am met with laggy and jerky response. Response time? 1 to 5 seconds!!!

So I basically paid a very large sum of money for a device my wife's 4 year old Motorolla outperforms in every way and my 6 year old compaq PPC and 5 year old Nokia out perform my TYtN II in every way it is capable of).

My brand new TYtN II does not compete with any of my friends HTC units, Samsung units, Nokias, Motorolla etc etc etc. When I first got it I wanted to show it off, and after a couple of comparisons I stopped. Even my friends were shocked at the bad performance!!!!!!!!!!!

The camera is a joke. I had to turn the shutter sound on to know if my picture took when I was taking a self portrait with my friends/family. That sometimes takes 3 or 4 seconds, even in good light!!!!

Taking videos or watching them is a joke. Painful is a great way to describe it.

I am not a computer or a tech noob but I am not a developer either. This is my first mobile device purchase in a few years, so I read and read and read and read and search and read everything I can to find (so I do not post questions already covered) to find what I want to do to my unit.

I don't mind all the time reading and searching to add additional accessories, programs or functionality to it, but I am spending most of my free time just trying to tweak what is there to get decent performance!!!!!!!!!!

I really want to love it, I really do, but it really is a laggy jerky crappy performing unit..... all of this for what was advertised and reviewed as the flagship and best unit out there. you would think for 900 dollars I would have a good experience. I do not :(

I intend on installing the camera and HTC and album fix it.

I intend on installing opera mini or opera mobile, I just haven't gathered enough information to decide which is best for me.

I want to get the GPS working (Tomtom was not on my CD) but I haven't yet. I can only imagine that the response of tomtom or any other GPS unit will be crap on my TYtN II.

I haven't watched any video on it except what I have taken with the camera. I would like too but do not have high hopes (unless the new core player works well)

Playing a basic game every now and again would be nice, but I haven't even tried. I doubt it will be pleasant. I dont even want to think about a 3d game. Maybe I can find a poker game that works ok

mikechannon I hope my feedback is helpful, if you or anyone else have any additional questions I will be glad to answer them to the best of my ability.