HTC Touch Pro

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Failed High High Hopes

26 Jun 2009 Chad14433

4.3 out of 10

I had the HTC Touch Pro from Alltel for exactly 29 days (back in April) before i returned it and i cannot tell you how frustrated i was with this phone. I spent tons of time researching the phone online as well as asking Alltel reps about this phone and everything was very positive.

The biggest problem i had with the phone was its horrrrible battery life. From day one it would only last 6 hours on a charge. 6!!! And that was with VERY little to NO use. If i dared turn on the wireless internet, let an app run in the background (such as Google Maps), or use the camera the battery would last 3 hours. I asked Alltel to replace the phone because there obiously was somthing wrong, three (3!!!) representatives said that either 1.) they never had this problem or 2.) thats what they were hearing from all the Touch Pro owners and that getting a new one would not change anything.

I decided to wait to see if maybe it would get better but instead more problems came up. All of the phone's physical buttons (call send/end D-pad, keyboard) would stop working and i needed to remove battery to fix. This happened at least twice a day. The phone froze constantly. The soft reset button would not reset the device most of the time. The touch screen was soo delayed that it was nearly impossible to use. When txting somtimes the time from when you hit a button to when the letter apeared on the screen would take as long as 10 seconds. As well, the phone felt extreamly cheap, constantly creaking and wobbly, front screen buttons always felt like they were going to break. I would hate to see the aftermath after its first drop.

I could not keep a phone that was this faulty (and i can't rely on bring my charger litterally everywhere i went) so i returned it and went back to my Blackberry Curve. My Touch Pro could have been a true lemmon but seeing other user reviews out there, i'm thinking HTC needs to fix this phone.

Pros

aGPS- paired with Google Maps was awsome. Did not need to purchase Alltel's navigation to be able to find my location (within a decent area)
Touch screen with physical keyboard idea
Camera-took wonderful pictures (although it had a long lag)

Cons

Battery- i cannot stress how bad this was
build quality
Software

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21 Jun 2009 Anonymous

8.3 out of 10

After reading all the reviews on here I decided to get one. This phone is slow when it comes with the preloaded att rom. But me being an htc geek I solved all the slowness including the unresponsive touchscreen. I flashed a custom built rom from xda deveplopers website and I even tried the new wm 6.5 rom which is pretty sweet and fast. This is a great phone once you know how to use. It is ten times better than my kaiser and i love the accelerometer. The att rom really slows the phone with all its useless preloaded trial games and other stuff. When using skyfire I have full flash and can watch movies from hulu.com and watch-movies-links.net without problems.

Design-7

Features-10 (after you put a different rom)

Performance-9 (after you put a different rom)

I love this phone.

Pros

Once you change the att rom to something else, its totally customizable to ur liking and way faster like the way it was designed to be.

Keyboard

Cons

The buttons on the sides.

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Without question, the worst phone I've ever owned!

11 Jun 2009 rdruan

1 out of 10

I've had this phone for 6 agonizing months!  I can't believe that anyone would give this phone a positive rating.  This phone is slow, unresponsive, freezes, and sometimes changes functions without me even touching it.  It is an embarrassing finger print magnet.  When taking a picture, there is such a lag in shuttter speed you have to make certain what you are photographing doesn't move.  The only thing I like about it is the key board.  I've had cell phones since 1989, the Motorola "brick" being my first.  I would rather have that phone again than this one.  Do yourself a favor, ignore all these positive posts.  I have no idea what their agenda is, but this phone SUCKS!!!!  I'm not do for an upgrade but on the 19th, I'm going to do what I should have done the first time, buy and iPhone.

Pros

keyboard

Cons

everything other than keyboard

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