Comments on: Gear Diary smackdown: HTC Touch vs. HTC Touch Dual http://gigaom.com/mobile/gear-diary-smac/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:40:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John http://gigaom.com/mobile/gear-diary-smac/#comment-396616 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:03:22 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/gear-diary-smac#comment-396616

Can you still use the onscreen keyboard for text entry on the touch dual, just like the regular touch?

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and the touch dual has a touch screen as well as the numeric pad so a double winner. I have both and for a 15 second review

Touch Dual :
+++ : 3G (voice and data at the same time and faster), faster CPU and more storage so less lagginess
—: flaky and buggy software especially in searching contacts which is a real ball ache; slightly smaller screen than the touch; battery life unpredictable (3G); no WiFi
000: different form factor doesn’t really add much apart from faster texting which is a plus in the UK

Touch:
+++ : sleek and nice size; WiFi; decent screen estate
— : underpowered and undersize storage even with the 1 Gbyte microSD in the package the device grinds when put under load (even with only a couple of apps, no 3G
000 : poor texting

the killer for me is 3G so the dual is my device of choice at the mo if I had 3g and the faster chip in the touch I’d stick with that.

]]> By: bluemonq http://gigaom.com/mobile/gear-diary-smac/#comment-396618 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:11:30 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/gear-diary-smac#comment-396618

I would think that the twice as speedy chip in the Dual would make it a winner?

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