HTC Touch Pro review

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August 7, 2009

Posted by: Sailormoon

"Fundamentally flawed"

What I like:

pretty to look at.

What I don't like:

everything else!

Review:

I have to agree with the user who gave this product a 2. Since day one I have discovered more and more usability issues with this phone that leave me thinking this was the most money I ever wasted.

To summarise the main gripes (very similar to other user).
1) battery life is diabolical. One day, even if I don't answer a single call and don't much else either. It's just not practical.
2) Agree that ring tone, even when set at max is no where near loud enough. I use this phone for business and it's a constant source of embarassment and apologies that I never hear callers.
3) Even if you do hear a call, the touch screen is so unresponsive it's sometimes impossible to pick up... it simply doesn't react.
3) Even if the caller thinks he's left it ringing for ages, I never hear more than 3 rings before it cuts off. This is ridiculous and means I miss calls even when the phone is next to me on my desk!
4) I don't know why people want full querty keypads... I thought I did, but soon found out it's not practical to stretch your fingers so far whilst holding the phone. It is however very easy to enter text using the touchpad version of a normal phone pad.
5) The phone hangs ALL the time, if it hasn't been used for a couple of hours. You then have to restart it, which takes as long as rebooting a slow laptop - imagine how frustrating that is when you urgently need to make a quick call. I have a friend who works at Microsoft and even he admits that he can't bear using the software and uses his personal iPhone instead.

I haven't even got as far as trying out videos/ camera or other things because I just hate the phone now and can't bear to use it other than to read my emails... which it does very well. Not true that you can't sync to Outlook. This is one thing that works well...

Good points? Looks pretty and came in a nice box. Work wanted me to buy a windows mobile operated phone. I've never forgiven the iT guy.