[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] whitedragem:
freewill, each to their own and all that jazz....

smiles...

I had a Yaris from launch day (modern Toyota), I sold it and bought a beast of a van from the eighties, with 4WD. My kids love the van, it is a mobile cubby house.. I can disappear for weeks, live out of the fridge (got some solar and a couple of deep cycle batteries to keep the power lasting a bit longer), and run a netbook/phone as modem for my tech fixes - I am an aquarian).

have I digressed?

Not sure if this thread will keep going.. and if it does I am glad to see this community is supportive of an individuals free will to chop and change.

Phones. They make phone calls. My ideal phone is a rubber tough phone.

But then I need to keep a seperate PDA for my diary. I just don't survive on notes on scraps of paper.

So I like a keyboard (physical) on my phones. Modern phones are getting better as onscreen keyboards can figure out which keys' we mistype...

Touch Pro 2 slow?

hahahahah

I have run roms that make it sluggish. Dropping the pretty front end, and these things ZIP!

With the right rom this is the most amazing functional device.

I am glad you put in the initial hard hours to learn about modding. No doubt those skills will transfer to whichever platform you move to, maybe even making the next device easier to setup and use.

Upon reading that after the hours put in, just when things should have started working out, you swapped devices.

Sometimes a piece of buggy hardware gets out.. and, simply running roms and not knowing if the unit is stable to begin with doesn't help.. though likely this was not a hardware issue.

I bet you didn't download older stable roms, rather the latest most graphically laden and feature packed ones.. the ones that say "bugs included".

After playing with many of the latest 'gee wizzes', I decided I wanted a 100% functional (and fast) phone. So I dropped back a level or two in terms of my expectations, and turned my TouchPro2 into the fastest greatest phone I have yet used.

I had to mod it.

My model is Phone company 'X' branded and they have crippled the device with their custom apps, which are nice, but I am using phone company 'Y' and they are not compatable, and internet sharing defaulted to hidden dialers for a phone company I am not using.

And the promised 6.5 update from HTC is taking a long time for company 'X' to release.

So I came here, downloaded a shedload of roms, and bought drinks for the people who made my phone the phone I wanted.

Think about it...

You buy a phone from a shop. You are excited about it and want the most from it.

A person on the street walks up and says "hey buddy, buy me a coffee, and I will make that device sweeet."

Deal of the decade!

This person has spent hours researching, tweaking and making a great product. A product I wanted.

Until this site, other than online shopping, I had never 'tipped' someone on the net.

Thankyou to the chefs here.

Having used psions, palms, nokia communicators, and iMates, to have a well modable HTC unit built out of top quality hardware is da bomb (for me).

My only gripe comes down to the lack of video drivers to make the most out of the video chipset. This is an issue that just shouldn't be, and actually hurts microsoft as much as the phone makers... (cause this device should be smooth out of the box)(and I am confident that battery life goes up as the processor load goes down)... !My only gripe! (and it isn't a deal breaker).

XDA-developers are changing the world one mobile at a time.

just check out the number of active users to see how much of an impact this site is making..

Yes Winmo as an OS is poor candidate. And yes we are living in hope that winmo7 will be as great a product as desktop7,.. but a well setup device will outshine anything.

Hey I have Pentium 3's that run rings around modern PCs.

My netbook is sweet, and the father-in-laws boots fully in eleven seconds (thankyou moblin) doing EVERYTHING he needs it to do.

For those of use who have taken an antagonistic approach to misplaced forum questions by newbies seemingly lost, who appear to have no patience.. well it is a double edged sword..

we want our threads neat and succinct, so the regulars can get to what they need with the least fuss. (of course we can come across as cold in making our point heard of 'please do a search first')

Yes nomenclature can catch us out (I didn't even know my phone was a Rhodium until I did a search)

So again I applaud the community here for being so friendly even to a newbie who has 'left the building'.

Cheers