{"id":450,"date":"2009-07-01T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/htc-touch-pro2-vs-universal\/"},"modified":"2013-03-14T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T07:07:45","slug":"htc-touch-pro2-vs-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/01\/htc-touch-pro2-vs-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC * ( Touch Pro2 vs Universal )"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahh, immense joy. Today coming back from work I found a nice surprise: a brand new HTC Touch Pro2<\/a>. Well, not exactly a surprise, since I spent every idle moment refreshing<\/a> the FedEx tracking page; but it\u2019s always a nice feeling to unbox a new gadget (as long as it does not become a compulsion to film & post every unboxing, behaviour that appears to be quite widespread lately. Rule 34: no exceptions).<\/p>\n

The thingy is light, snappy, sports an enormous display with mind-blowing resolution, the best thumb keyboard I\u2019ve ever used, and above all moves me back to first place  in the \u201clatest smartphone\u201d arm\u2019s race with my wife (she has an \u201cold\u201d Touch Pro, and until 2 hours ago I had a s730. HA!). It does lack US 3G, but I am usually pretty content with Edge: I live constantly surrounded by PCs readily available at arm\u2019s length, for the few times I need connectivity while on the move I can wait a bit. The other thing I am not crazy about is the charger, a super-sized UK plug: apart from the times in which I travel to Singapore (rare) or London (even more rare), that just takes a lot of room without a bringing any ROI. This is not the first time I have a phone with such a charger: 4 years ago I bought a JasJar<\/a> (HTC Universal), a behemoth which was really good as PDA but a tad oversized as a phone, which forced me to go around with a fanny pack (and very briefly with a man\u2019s purse) which was handy for keeping the rear pockets of my jeans in good shape, but that regularly unleashed hilarity among colleagues, friends & detractors alike. Now, that was a long <\/em>sentence. Well, I needed an adapter and I thought I could find it in the original box of the Universal, which in turn was in the den\u2019s closet, sleeping the sleep of the just in the geological strata that can be dated to our last move. I sure found the adapter (too many, in fact: a UK->Italy and a Italy->US), but even more interestingly I found the Universal itself. The thing is much, much bigger than the TouchPro2: keeping them side by side makes it so incredibly obvious that I felt compelled to shoot few pictures and write this silly blog entry for sharing them with you.<\/p>\n

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I know that the following is the quintessential commonplace about technology, nevertheless I can\u2019t help but being amazed at this magical force that packs more power & features in smaller and slicker form factors. In front of this, a little overstretching of my jean\u2019s pockets truly is a little sacrifice\u2026 at least I won\u2019t have to dig out the fanny pack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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