I still have my HTC Touch Pro 2... It was an awesome phone. The amount of work I got done on that phone... just recalling it was actually insane.
Back then Windows Mobile 6.5 came with Microsoft office, so office was the biggest advantage for me as it meant I could work on documents on the go.
The camera was decent for it's time.
The other advantage was the stylus as it meant I could use the Touch Pro 2 to draw floorplans.
I also have a samsung omnia pro b7610... but that is nothing compared to the Touch Pro 2 and the stylus was really hit and miss.
What I loved by Windows Mobile 6.5 was that I could create a back up on device and have it save to msd card. I used PIMbackup and SPBbackup. The former to back up all my contacts, text messages to the msd card. SPB backup to back up my entire phone - think about that we were able to back up the entire phone using an app installed on the msd card to back up to the same very msd card.
Thanks to advanced WiFi configuration settings in WM6.5, I was able to run a mesh WiFi network using a ethernet back bone and WDS. So that meant whereever I was in the house I had WiFi at full bars.
Now, I have had to resort to the most backwards fixes ever conceiveable. I have to add my L930 to the each of my Wifi Routers - access point control registry and then delete it!
To get WiFi working seamlessly... :grincry::grincry::grincry: If I don't delete it I get the obscure WiFi address allocated 169.xxx.xxx.xxx . So I had to simplify my entire network, now If I'm lucky I'll get 1 bar of WiFi in the kitchen... and not to mention I have instances where i am connected to WiFi but I have "no internet connection", despite the fact I do but I have to toggle WiFi off and on again.
But it's not just WM10 devices now, Android and ios have the same issues now... I reckon the people who are actually writing WiFi chipset drivers don't actually understand how a WiFi network operates beyond the bits level (physical level).
That's what happens if you don't retain the most experienced engineers who actually had to code their own games just to make characters move. These days we just deal with simplified language and sprites....
But yeah I still have my HTC TP 2, although the screen is pretty much functional as a powered mirror. I managed to get everything working but the screen is proving difficult to fix as I have a verizon import. The reason it's an 10th+ hand import is that the global model doesn't have a headphone jack... the only other phone I used that didn't have headphone jack was the google g1 and it annoyed the heck out of me.
I would say it was due the Touch Pro 2 that I was able to make the transition from a physical keyboard user to phones without any physical keyboards. As my past daily drivers included blackberry bold 8700, curve 8900, the Nokia E61 - that was a solid phone.
I really wanted to get the HTC Touch Pro 7 but the lack of place to put the stylus along with the fact it pretty much used a your own msd card as part of the o/s.
The UX looked phenomenal, it had so much potential... but it lacked every single enterprise feature and advanced feature that made WM6.5 great. The landscape support was lacking as when you opened the keyboard the start screen was still in portrait mode. on the HTC TP2 the start screen changed orientation and in effect you now had another customisable start screen.
Good days, good days.
If Microsoft:
- enabled custom roms
- incorporated all the enterprise and advanced features
- used the NT kernal, enabled users to their msd cards without it being swallowed by the os
- allowed on device backups to msd cards
- used secure element on device for tap to pay, the action centre (they had the gall to say the tiles were all that were required... lol (tiles that only displayed a number upto 99, went to zero when the app was opened - so you could still have unread emails but the tile will show no new e mail LOL)
- Not to mention they didn't want to give us a file explorer
- Did not have copy and paste - (Apple imo got away with it because no one is hyper critical of Apple when it comes to actual detailed analysis)
(Some of the reasons why I never bought a Wp7 phone)
Then they would have been onto a winner.... and we wouldn't be here recalling the good days of Wm6.5.
But as the saying goes everyone has hindsight but not many have foresight.
There many free ones and some trail ones that may not be able to be bought since some of the developers site are gone.
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