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BlackBerry Bold vs HTC Touch Pro vs Samsung Epix

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Kyle
on October 30, 2008
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The HTC Touch Pro

The HTC Touch Pro is a great touchscreen smartphone because they said “to hell with touch keyboards, they don’t work” and gave us an awesome slide-out QWERTY. This phone is therefore perfect for the Windows Mobile enthusiast who wants a touch screen device, but also needs to get some work done.

Compared to the BlackBerry Bold, the HTC Touch Pro is fairly similar. As previously discussed, there isn’t much here in the way of different software. The obvious benefit of the Touch Pro, is that it’s a touch screen device. Personally, I’ve found web browsing a much better experience with touch screen devices. I would therefore recommend this phone to someone who is a little less enterprise centric than a Bold user. Also, the camera on the Touch Pro is much better than the Bold. So if a camera is really important to you, this might be a deciding factor.

Relative to the Epix, the Touch Pro offers a much more rich WinMo experience. The camera and media functionality is better on the Touch Pro, and the mere fact that it has a touch screen makes it a better user experience. If it’s a solid WinMo phone you’re after, I would have to recommend the HTC Touch Pro well before the Epix.

HTC Touch Pro Specifications:

Processor - Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
Operating System - Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Memory - ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 288MB
Dimensions 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 18.05 mm (T)
Weight 165 g (with battery)
Display 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus and flash light
battery - : 1340 mAh
htc Charger/headphone/mini usb jack.


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7 Responses to “BlackBerry Bold vs HTC Touch Pro vs Samsung Epix”

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  1. 1 Player911
    November 10, 2008 at 3:38 pm
    The Epix also has a touchscreen. I also was under the impression that the Bold was the first Blackberry to also have a touchscreen.

    It seems your review puts the Touch Pro in the win simply based upon having a Touchscreen, which in reality, they all have.

  2. 2 Kyle
    November 10, 2008 at 4:00 pm
    @Player911

    BlackBerry Bold doesn’t have a touch screen. I think you’re thinking of the BlackBerry Storm.

  3. 3 Player911
    November 11, 2008 at 10:59 am
    You don’t go into detail as why you say the Epix is “a little out of the competition”.

    The Epix offers everything the Touch Pro does hardware wise. Who cares about included software? You know the first thing people do is cook their own Windows OS versions to exclude useless software crapware. My personal opinion is that the Epix running leaner and not including an additional browser is a plus since Opera isn’t stuck wasting ROM space when SkyFire is my browser of choice.

    The Touch Pro offers a larger screen which as a result is a much thicker slider phone. Here it is give and take. Personal choice. Samsung’s screens also have a lot higher DPI quality for more detailed finer looking graphics.

    Samsung also offers a lot better build quality then HTC devices inside and out.

    I fail to see any true comparisons here which puts any 1 device over another. The Epix can do everything a Touch Pro can do plus has a faster processor. Blackberry is a completely different Operating system completely and in no way can you compare them directly.

    Touch Pro
    + Larger screen 640×480
    + Larger QWERTY
    + 3mm Audio Plug

    Touch Pro
    - Thick
    - Slider
    - Slower Processor
    - Lower Screen DPI
    - No Alternative Input Methods (ie Optical Mouse)
    - Smaller battery

    Epix
    + Thinner
    + Bigger battery
    + Faster Processor
    + Touchscreen + Optical Mouse/Optical Dpad + Keyboard
    + Higher screen DPI

    Epix
    - Smaller screen 320×320
    - Proprietary Audio/Charger Plug

    Sounds like the Epix has it where it needs it.

  4. 4 Kyle
    November 13, 2008 at 6:15 pm
    @ Player911

    Nice thanks for comment!

    I’m curious, can you change the Epix’s classic WinMo interface into a TouchFLO 3D interface? I just find that interface so unnecessarily complicated.

  5. 5 stiffler
    November 15, 2008 at 6:06 pm
    I would have to add the fact that the Touch Pro being thicker and having a slide out to the bennifit collumm as I like a phone that feels a little bigger in my hands and I very much like the fact taht it has a larger slide out keyboard.
  6. 6 Player911
    November 17, 2008 at 2:36 am
    Yes you can. I even had Manilla2D running on the Epix. It looks identical to TouchFlo 3D… but there are some minor differences. The Weather panel is animated on both.

    Having both devices… I find the 3rd party FTouchSL works much better then actual TouchFlo. Finger gestures in the smaller scroll boxes seems much easier on the Epix/FTouchSL vs Fuze/TouchFlo.

    The Fuze does have a nice screen, but the high resolution on such a small screen greatly reduces the onscreen items. Luckily they have a very nice “Large Start Menu” hack going on which makes it more finger friendly. Also the touch-sensitive D-pad allows text resizing and zoom functions in many apps which helps also.

    I’m finding it awkward to text one handed on the Fuze, which was easy on the Epix.

    If you took the hardware from the Epix and put the software from the Fuze… you’d have a perfect device.

  7. 7 Spork
    December 5, 2008 at 11:15 pm
    Well if you look elsewhere you will find the the HTC Touch Pro wins in all debates.

    You are of course allowed to express your views on the phones but when 99% of people prefer the Touch Pro… it seems you maybe wrong.

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