[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] SlyTuk:
Rom Mini Review

Leo,

Firstly, I wish to thank you for your work for this community, it is very much appreciated.

As an Analyst/Developer in real life, I am chosing to review this in accordance with the way I work on my own tasks. Please take my comments in the way they are intended which are partly to point out good aspects (areas where I see specific excellence over other roms), queries (where I simply do not have the experience in the field that you do) and constructive observations / suggestions.

Firstly, this is the ONLY rom I have been able to use which has made me not want to flash back to my stock T-Mobile UK Rom. All other roms I have tried, on balance, have deprived me of something I deem "essential" without offering significant benefits somewhere else.

- Overall Device performance - fantastic, far less pauses in application switching, Portrait/Landscape switching etc etc.

- Battery performance - Excellent - after a day of "typical" personal use with HDSPA deactivated via Advanced config, I still have 40% remaining. My days usage was email updates every 15mins, 14 RSS Feeds on hourly update, approx 1hr of calls and a cumulative 1hour of internet browsing. Also approximatley 30mins playing on AirIsland.

- Visual style - Great - v4 I perosonally found the 3G icon in the task bar a little poor - the one in this is much better. Diamond appearance, personally I like the balance of some Diamond styling without trying to pretend this device is something its not. What has been provided is a good, clean feel with enough included bits for people to tweak to the majority of users tastes.

- Bundled Apps - Good - for me the apps and features included are at a good level - ie there are enough for most users without creating too much bloat. What isnt included are likely to be things that are more "either or" apps - ie some want enhanced phone/dialers/sms functionality, whilst others would want more multimedia and others may have something else. I would say you have provided a core which matches most peoples needs, plus the individual upgraded apps/components are a good choice (eg advanced config, voice dialer etc)

- Call performance - Fair/some issues - whilst the reception is good, and mostly I have been impressed, I have had a couple of instances where a new call does not come through the speaker (only observed during outgoing calls). A soft reset resolves this, but having asked the person I was calling for feedback I have found that they couldnt hear me either. I experienced this much more frequently in V4, requiring perhaps 3 resets per day. In addition with V4, on 2 occasions, rather than there being no sound, a loud buzzing was experienced which could not be stopped via any means. This has not persisted into the v5/radio combo.

- Internet - on the whole, fine - however I did have an experience today where IE hung completley. Pressing and holding the power key caused the "do you wish to turn off" dialogue, however I couldnt actually select anything. This could be a glitch with the page, however I normally get script warnings if there is a site issue. Also in Opera 5 I noticed some screen repaint issues - this could be down to the Opera issue, however I mention it here for the next observation.

- Graphics - Mainly excellent - Observation that during the GX benchmark, there appear to be some graphical tears where the lower 1/2 does not quite move together with the top 1/2. This could be a device limitation, but it appears to be about the same point where the opera refresh issue is. Playing SPB AirIsland ArkballII I got a high enough frame rate to actually see where the ball is, unlike previous Roms I have tried.

- GX benchmark result - ? - I have never used this app before, but I did notice that I got significantly lower results than you. Perhaps there is a hardware variance between your TyTnII and mine? Inittially I got about 1525 a couple of times, then I once got a 1400, and now seem to get mid 1500s. I am using only your rom pack, plus HardSPL 3.28. Maybe I should try the SPL you are using?

Overall I am very happy, and my main issue would be the call issue. I have read others in this thread have the problem too, but dont know enough about their networks etc to see a common cause. Whilst I personally mainly use a phone for RSS & Internet - I cannot afford to miss calls or have be unable to make calls when driving etc when I cant do a reset. If this could be ironed out, or someone let me know what I need to do to sort it, this would be be pretty much perfect in my opinion.

Keep up the good work.

SlyT