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Hello everybody,
I have a question, maybe somebody can help me here?
I am using an Artemis and consider to buy a TYTN2. Is it worth to change? I know, this is a strange question but maybe somebody had a Artemis before and is now using a TYTN2.
I guess iGO will work on the TYTN2 as well, is somebody using this SW?
Thanx in advance,
Ralf
If you look at GPS, yes, unnlike the P3600 Trinity, you are ok with the Tytn II GPS: it has a working quick GPS program. According to GPSPassion.com, the GPS quality is significantly improved, equivalent to the SirfIII (which you have in Artemis). The unit is slightly fatter and heavier though. You also have no FM radio. I like the one-hand navigation possible through the jog wheel on the side and the ok button on the side, which opens the windows menu when pressed. The tilt is nice when you keep the unit on your office linked to the PC, because it's not lying flat on the desk, you can see on it very well. Also when you use it as an alarm clock near your bed. Last but not least: WM6 without overclocking...
funny that you visit a Kaiser/TyTN II forum and ask that question
iGO do work on the device ... it's basically the OS that you should referred to when dealing with SW
I use it without any problem ... infact, I preferred it over TomTom !!!
yes i know, sorry for that
i think i will go for the tytn2, i was just looking for opinions and for the confirmation that iGO is working without problems. i need iGO for eastern europe, tomtom is here not very strong in map availability
thanx to all
ralf
If the weight is not an issue for you
If you can survive to the lack of VGA screen for surfing...
Then go and buy one
It's all great !
Dear all Kaiser users,
I've also a Kaiser and I'm wondering if all complains are grounded.
I understand that some people ask for these drivers but please know that currently almost none of the current PDA's have this video acceleration.
Some people say that when scrolling through programs this is choppy. (Thats correct) but when it is a video issue it must also must be choppy at Settings -> System. And there simply it scrolls smoothly. I had this same problem when upgrading to WM6 on my Wizard.
I also, want to see good video drivers (who not) but I think that HTC or ATI or Qualcom not have stable drivers at this moment. It is also possible that 3D chip is not working (same what Intel and AMD do with budget CPU's) but that is only speculation. (I don't think this is true because HTC would say that then as excuses).
And of course of business view that will release a new phone with 3d acceleration of course. But at that time all our kaisers have also 3d acceleration .
I came from the Wizzard and the Kaiser is for me a big improvement. But when I was searching for a new phone I was looking at more phone's. I doubted between the Toshiba G900 and E-Ten X500+, X800. But these phone's are underperforming to the Kaiser. Especially at video speed.
This is my point of view. I don't know if there are more people sharing this or not?
All I want to say that a Kaiser is a great phone, but it seems to be that a matter of time it will be a monster.
Greetings from Holland.
The choppy programs scroll maybe is caused by some bad icon caching ... ie ... the system makes sd card reques every time the icon is shown. Which has nothing to do with acceleration or GDI as some adress the problem. However being a part of the shell and stored in internal memory the icons in the settings are being scrolled perfect.
And also I don't believe that Toshiba G900 is underperforming ... I don't believe that any Toshiba product can underperform
mkara said:
Dear all Kaiser users,
It is also possible that 3D chip is not working (same what Intel and AMD do with budget CPU's) but that is only speculation. (I don't think this is true because HTC would say that then as excuses).
Greetings from Holland.
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Wrong... This would affect Qualcomm's market value.
I agree with mkara.
I think that the video acceleration issue is over exaggerated.
I mean common, this is not a PC, neither it is a TV. It does not have a screen to watch movies or play shooters, it's a business phone.
I more often see my Kaiser completely freeze when it synchronizes via ActivSync but I haven't complains of that - people take that for granted.
Although I must admit that HTC should care more of its customers' opinion and react proactively instead of waiting for petitions and so on.
For me Kaiser has been nothing but pleasant experience (except, pehaps, the issue with GPS module I reported separetly, but I prefer to think it is less about the device and more about HTC not being able to admit its mistakes).
Regards
mkara said:
Dear all Kaiser users,
I understand that some people ask for these drivers but please know that currently almost none of the current PDA's have this video acceleration.
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None? There are Dell Axim X50v/51v, G-Smart T600 w/ Intel 2700G chipset. Take a look at on at here (Chinese): http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=225&t=358344&p=1 and it's TCPMP QVGA benchmark really put Kaiser into shame.
Average Speed 805.94%
Video Frames 8003
Audio Samples 6014564
Amount of Data 9086 KB
Bench. Time 0:33.132
Bench. Frame Rate 241.54
Bench. Sample Rate 181543
Bench. Data Rate 2.2 Mbit/s
Hey all,
I currently own an 8525/Hermes and was thinking of upgrading to a Kaiser Tilt.
I mainly use my Hermes for video and music playback (using TCPMP), RSS Feeds, and traditional PDA functions such as calendars/email/contacts....
I am a bit hesitant however due to the video driver issues and GPS-Battery drain issues....
For all you past Hermes owners, in retrospect to your Kaiser purchase, do you recommend upgrading to a Kaiser or just keep the Hermes until HTC or our XDA developers finds solutions to the Kaiser issues?
As always, best regards to all and I do appreciate your advice
Thanks...
In my opinion, my Kaiser crushes my old Hermes...but I'm also the type of person that doesn't care whether we get drivers or not. To me it's faster, cooler and I always use the internal GPS. I also use Newsbreak for my RSS feeds and have no problems.
I agree, I find my Kaiser to be better in every way than my 8525, no regrets whatsoever. I use GPS every day, Slingbox, watch many full length movies, photo viewing with the HTC album are great, streaming radio stations, it's all good.
The only reason I have my Tilt, is because the screen on my hermes broke. If it hadn't, I would defately stuch with my hermes. I loved my hermes. The video playback was twice as good as the Tilt. And the keyboard was a lot nicer and easier to use. I would just wait and see what the driver upgrade brings. IMO
Hi RemE,
Quick question.... do you have to encode/rip your full length movies (assuming you use divx or xvid codecs) to lower video bit rates and resolution to watch videos smoothly on your Kaiser?
What bit rates do you generally use for your videos? (I say generally b/c I'm sure these bit rates varies depending if the movie is an action movies vs non-action movies )
I'm just trying to get a gauge on the video playback performance of the Kaiser as compared to the Hermes
RemE said:
I agree, I find my Kaiser to be better in every way than my 8525, no regrets whatsoever. I use GPS every day, Slingbox, watch many full length movies, photo viewing with the HTC album are great, streaming radio stations, it's all good.
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I've always created my video content as Divx / Xvid at 320 x 240 audio at 96k stereo and a total bitrate between 475-500kb/sec. I've used these settings for hundreds of movies to be played on my Archos players (with 4" screens), iPAQ's (even the 4" VGA hx4700). They play perfectly on all of these plus the Hermes, and now the Kaiser. I've used TCPMP and Core players with great results. These smaller screen players just don't need higher rez content to be very enjoyable to watch on the go.
People can say whatever they like, but my movies look very good and sound great, even better with WOW SRS active. Benchmarks in TCPMP and Core run between 148-204% and I never see stuttering or artifacts.
I know that the video drivers would make the Kaisers better, but right now everything is "just" good enough for everything to work as one would expect. I use this thing all day every day and it's much better all-around than my 8525
There are a bunch of little things I like better about the Kaiser (better camera, stylus, spring-loaded slider, color scheme). But the built-in GPS really puts the it head and shoulders above the Hermes.
The video driver issue isn't a deal breaker for me yet (even if the Kaiser vs. Magician Tom Tom video made me want to cry). I don't really see the point of watching a full length video on my phone. I just hope they get the driver issue fixed by football season... Orb server plus Hermes gave my wife her weekends back last year.
I do think the keyboard on the Hermes was a lot better though. It's probably because they had to cram the GPS components into the phone, but the Kaiser keyboard seems less responsive.
For me, the perfect phone would be the Kaiser with a Hermes keyboard and decent video drivers.
i miss my hermes camera more than anything. it took such great pix
Thanks to all so far for your feedback
I'm sure there are a bunch of Hermes users curious about the Kaiser performance (as of today without the video drivers fixed) compared with the Hermes. There seems to be so many bad posts related to the kaiser (drivers,battery issues,random cracking screens without abusing the phone). Don't get me wrong, the Wizard, Hermes, and now (it would seem) the Kaiser have all been sensitive devices and requires some kind of protective case (I use the aluminum cases for both Wizard & Hermes) unlike the Apple crude phone where apparently, it can be dropped onto a marble floor from 4 ft without cracking the screen. Why couldn't HTC build a sturdier screen?!?!
Anyways, the Hermes is an awesome device but since I currently don't need GPS, I may just stick with the Hermes a bit longer until some tragedy befalls on it.... but then again.... my wife's Wizard is going on the fritz and I may just give her my Hermes and upgrade to a Kaiser... ha ha.... now that would be a poll to post..."How many users gives there spouses/partners their hand me down phones?"
I hope more Kaiser owners vote in this poll.
Thanks again
hollywould said:
The only reason I have my Tilt, is because the screen on my hermes broke. If it hadn't, I would defately stuch with my hermes. I loved my hermes. The video playback was twice as good as the Tilt. And the keyboard was a lot nicer and easier to use. I would just wait and see what the driver upgrade brings. IMO
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Now I've tracked my instability issues to pocket plus and low memory i really wish I'd stuck with the hermes. Agree with all of the above really.
joel32137 said:
the Hermes is an awesome device but since I currently don't need GPS, I may just stick with the Hermes
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Good move. The built in GPS is the killer feature for me, one less device to carry.
I gave my Hermes to my girlfriend as she rarely uses GPS and it does everything the Kaiser does (except GPS) and just as quick.
This might be a stupid question, but can anyone confirm that we have working video drivers on our diamonds? I know HTC told us so, but I know better than to trust HTC's word on anything.
Not a stup question.
The drivers are present
The diamond was part of the solution for the missing Kaiser drivers.
They took parts from the KS20 the Diamond and tytnII wm 6.1 update.
(I don't know which parts they used from the diamond).
So where are those 3D games and Hardware Video players ?
CorePlayer is making full support for Diamond chip roght now, just wait. About games, you must program them exactly for this Graphic chip, so you need to make some game first.
Reading thru this
As you can see at the end, the average FPS was 136. Strangely enough running the same application on the Diamond resulted in only 82 FPS. This while using the same viewport dimensions, in other words, the triangle was a lot smaller on the Diamond.
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Any reason the Diamond frame rate would be lower?
can diamond play divx films with subtitles?
I am going crazy with windows mobile. i have never had a reliable phone with windows mobile there is always another problem. anyway who has had a nokia n95? how does it compare with your htc phones?
thicker, compared to touch hd , sometimes may open to the wong side while in your pocket(tight pocket) and go to media, It doesnt have a touchscreen!!! I only had it for 2days(a year ago), cause my Nokia 5610 was broken at that time, and after those 2 days I had to give the N95 back and use Nokia 6230!! How about some other nokia with symbian like Xseries or maybe some other phone (non Nokia) with touchscreen and symbian?
Still have mine!
You cannot compare to HTC phone as it like compare apples and bananas.
N95 is a very nice phone and I have no problem with mine actually the VoIP phone feature is very very good on the Nokia, much better than on any Windows phone I had.
But it's a question of taste, some like Windows some like Android and some like Symbian, but as said earlier it's a very nice phone.
Garcia
love the nokia n95
i have had this for about two years...i have used it as a back up phone. Completely customizable! i have android on it via flash. i also pay dumpphone unlimited internet prices thru at&t and in my town its gives me 3.5g full bars...i use at home as my internet just tether thru nokia suite and video works great....and no tethering fee!the cam is also still pretty good!
I had a Nokia N95 which I gave to my dad. Typical Nokia reliability and good voice/signal quality. Only problem the phone has is that the batery gets wasted pretty quick, nothing a spare battery couldn't fix. I am not sure what generation it is as I got the phone 3 years ago... He still has it though and it works perfectly and still looks great.
I used to have it, but sold it to get sony xperia x1.. I loved the camera on it, best camera i ever seen on a mobile phone.
Here are the smart phones that I have used:
Samsung SCH-I760 - 1 year
iPhone3G 16 GB - 3 months
Xperia X1 - 1.5 years
Nokia E90 - 3 months
Nokia N95 - 1 year
Here are phones that I have access through relatives:
HTC Touch Pro2 T-mobile - I've used it for 12 hours
Well...the Nokia N95 and the Nokia E90 are pretty much the same thing except:
1) You will realize that an accelerometer, not found on the E90, is useless on a Nokia N95 Phone because it's not a touch screen interface.
2) The N95 has 5 Megapixel Carl Zeiss high quality camera lens and senser. The Nokia E90 has 3 Megapixels with ordinary lens.
3) The Nokia N95 has excellent speakers. The Nokia E90 has excellent speakers but you need to place it on a surface that has an acoustic feedback (a wooden table is good enough). All-in-all the Nokia E90 speakers is 90% as good as the N95 (I promise).
4) N95 has headphone jack, and E90 has 2.5 mm miniature headphone jack.
Get the N95 if you want the music experience to be 10% better than the E90 and the camera to actually be useful. Get the E90 if you want excellent Personal Information Management and excellent media player.
All-in-all, I could not believe that the E90 was not marketed to the U.S. consumers. Because of this stupid bull**** reason, I bought the N95 first, which really fooled me. The E90 is a better phone.
Of course, this is coming from a guy who rarely use the camera, and mostly use the calendar application.
I agree with poetryrocksalot's points. I used my N95 in between my AT&T 8525 and Fuze. I love the N95 for:
- camera quality
- speaker quality
- Nokia SportsTracker. This is an excellent application for GPS tracking. I haven't found anything for WinMo that I like as much.
- smaller size and light weight
- built-in SyncML support
- general quality of hardware
Things I did not like about it that ultimately drove me back to WinMo:
- no touchscreen. I can't stress enough how frustrating it was to go from a touchscreen phone to a non-touchscreen phone.
- no copy/paste support outside of text editing areas. You can copy and paste in the SMS app, for example, but not the text of a web page.
- terrible, clunky email client. ProfiMail is better, but still limited.
- lack of ability to customize the OS. For example, the Nokia web browser comes with several useless bookmarks and bookmark folders that you cannot remove. There are apps that remove them for you, but they return on the next restart as they're built into the ROM.
- application signing
- lack of updates from Nokia
anybody want to trade me theirs? i have a good cdma touch pro i will trade or a htc wizard + sx66
romana said:
I agree with poetryrocksalot's points. I used my N95 in between my AT&T 8525 and Fuze. I love the N95 for:
- camera quality
- speaker quality
- Nokia SportsTracker. This is an excellent application for GPS tracking. I haven't found anything for WinMo that I like as much.
- smaller size and light weight
- built-in SyncML support
- general quality of hardware
Things I did not like about it that ultimately drove me back to WinMo:
- no touchscreen. I can't stress enough how frustrating it was to go from a touchscreen phone to a non-touchscreen phone.
- no copy/paste support outside of text editing areas. You can copy and paste in the SMS app, for example, but not the text of a web page.
- terrible, clunky email client. ProfiMail is better, but still limited.
- lack of ability to customize the OS. For example, the Nokia web browser comes with several useless bookmarks and bookmark folders that you cannot remove. There are apps that remove them for you, but they return on the next restart as they're built into the ROM.
- application signing
- lack of updates from Nokia
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Application signing was a nightmare
If you are looking for one, PM me. My father was talking about selling his yesterday.