Touch Pro2 Video Review by Matt Miller – He Bought a myTouch Pro Instead

YouTube video courtesy of palmsolo (AKA Matt Miller)

Well, I still don’t have a T-Mobile Touch Pro2. But, my friend and occassional podcast tag-team partner Matt Miller over at ZDNet had one and posted his review (text link below, video embedded above).

Review: T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 is a hefty device with a price to match

I played with a display model at the local T-Mobile store yesterday and noted, as Matt also did in his video review, that the QWERTY keyboard doesn’t include a Windows Start button. I found this quite annoying since I often use that key for navigation. The Touch Pro2 forces you to use the Start button on the front panel where the LCD is. This button is on the far upper right when the QWERTY keyboard is extended out.

The other thing that concerned me is that moving between menus and applications seemed very slow on the Touch Pro2. I had hoped that HTC had put enough horsepower under the hood to make Windows Mobile 6.1 look a bit more responsive. Given the unavailability of the Touch Pro2 in local T-Mobile stores (I checked two), I’ve gone on the fence about buying one online. I may fall back to the Dash 3G (no touch screen) or just skip the entire current Windows Mobile 6.1 generation of devices. In fact, I may join Matt in skipping 6.5 and wait for Windows Mobile 7 in 2010.

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