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hey guys john r Ettinger here the tilt to or the touch pro2 it's known internationally is a really hot device it brings with it some very advanced hardware specifications augmented by windows mobile 6.5 or Windows Phone as Microsoft is calling it with HTC's own skin on top of it called touchflo 3d odds are if you're considering the tilt - or the touch pro2 you believe looked at the iPhone 3GS if you haven't considered purchasing the iPhone you're at least familiar with how the operating system works so it should be a relatively reasonable and fair comparison we're gonna cover Hardware browser navigation customization app store and keyboard on both devices let's start with the thing that you look at the most the screen the screen on the tilt - is a three point six inch resistive touchscreen meaning you can use a stylus because these touch sensitivity is done by two layers of film that actually pushed together so resistive screens do have a little bit of squishy feel to it the iPhone and on the other hand has a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen which is used by a sensor of electrons so that's why you can really only use your finger so in that comparison the tilt tube does have a little bit bigger screen so speaking of dimensions the tilts to is 4.5 4 by 2 point 3 3 by 0.65 where the iPhone is 4.5 by 2.4 5.48 you know nothing terribly exciting their colors wise the tilts - can show about 65,000 colors whereas the iPhone can show many many many more about 16 million the pixel wise we're looking at 400 by 800 for the tilts - and 320 by 480 for the iPhone this is actually the highest resolution that Windows Mobile can't show the iPhone 3GS certainly has multi-touch whereas the tilt 2 does not from a battery standpoint we're looking at talktime of 7.5 hours for the tilt 2 and 12 hours for the iPhone 3GS but we get 475 hours standby time for the tilt - and only 300 hours of standby time for the iphone 3gs so enough of this non comparisons let's talk about something that we can actually see let's turn the screens on for each and let's start with the browser's pocket internet explorer the browser that has shipped with most versions of Windows Mobile before this was let's just say not the best sin htc recognize that actually shipped the touch pro2 in this case the tilt - with opera which is a very very very capable and scalable browser so we're gonna go ahead and open up the same website on each we'll go over to internet here we go and we will launch youtube.com slash John 4-leggers okay so I've got a queued up on both devices we are running on the same 3G connection with between four and five bars of 3G service so this should be very quick and I should also mention that this website has been viewed on both devices so cookies and cache and everything should already be there so this is a test of how a website that you look down on a daily basis would load up let's go ahead and try and get these things to launch at the same time we're gonna go ahead and hit go go there I think go here at the same time alright and we are off certainly your 3G speed is going to vary depending on where you are but at least it's running on the same network should be a pretty fair test so it's already loaded on the iPhone 3GS and still rendering here on the tilt - now in the interest of brevity I'm going to limit my browser comparisons to just one website otherwise it's going to end up being a twenty to thirty minute video if I do a few tests but suffice to say and all the tests that I have run the iPhone 3GS does render pages no matter what page it is just a little bit quicker so now that both pages are up and ready to go let's take a look at navigation and how the site looks so both have an accelerometer so I can turn it and it will rotate as you can see now navigation is a little bit interesting on me tilt - you don't have the multi-touch you might be familiar with on the iPhone the application is done via two ways you can either double tap to zoom in on an area otherwise there is a zoom bar across the bottom that allows you to zoom in and zoom out scroll in and scroll up now it does zoom in a little bit of an arbitrary area so you've got to sort of pan around to get where you want to go but it does definitely function how you would expect it to do now there's a little bit of a buffering time if you saw there at the checkerboard platform but scrolling is smooth and you can definitely get around anywhere you'd like on the website its world's better than pocket and at Explorer if you've ever used that it's a very very capable HTML browser on the iPhone for example you can do that same double tab scroll around you don't get that same checkerboard pattern and you can zoom in via multi-touch so just pinch and zoom that's gonna come down to personal preference browser I think is definitely stronger on the iPhone 3GS but it's very capable on the tilts too as well so next let's talk about navigation we'll go back to the home screen on each the navigation for the iPhone should be relatively familiar if you're an iPhone fan you know how it is or if you don't like the iPhone you're probably sick of seeing it it's done by a simple grid array of icons and you scroll around and you have to scroll from screen to screen to get to where you'd like to go at least for the main navigation you can drill down in menus to settings and you get some more options in each one you can go through and see what your sub menus are the iPhone is a pretty simple user interface it's it's relatively elegant easy to use I'll let might be getting a little bit stale so let's take a look here at the tilt - this again is running Windows Phone or windows mobile 6.5 with touchflo 3d on top of it navigation is done by its main bar across the bottom you can scroll all the way down and see all your options home people text mail internet talent stocks pictures and the like it's a pretty smooth navigation I've used touchflo 3d in the past and generally the processor that I've used these devices on so the e-team diffuse for examples but a little underpowered this can get laggy the tilts too however processor is quite fast and can handle this quick Scrolls so it doesn't actually end up being very smooth and it nice and easy to use interface touchflo 3d makes Windows Mobile I think very finger friendly as well so if you're a corporate user that's used to Windows Mobile this is going to be a very pleasant surprise to you and things actually work and are really zippy the Start menu that you've seen in most Windows mobile phones is gone replaced with this sort of honeycomb looking grid array which as far as looking at programs is quite easy to use when there aren't that many on the list if you go to something like settings for example I will go to system when there's quite a lot to look at it can be hard to find where you want to go although overall I definitely prefer the honeycomb array to the older list that was found in Windows Mobile this one's really going to be a draw depending on what you're used to if you want the simplicity and elegance of the iPhone it's a great way to go looking for the customization and the more exchanged synchronization and some more advanced features and especially a more open platform the Windows Mobile is really gonna be a very solid way to go now speaking of a customization let's talk about that on the tilt - really you can customize everything programs like SPB mobile shell or registry tweaking and hacking er pretty simple to use and install and you can make the tilt to really do anything that you'd like you can change the home screen you can put in video wallpapers you can customise your tabs on the bottom that's one of the nice things about Windows Mobile is that it's open and you can customize everything on here on the iPhone 3GS it's certainly not that customizable Apple is really limited in what you can do you can move the icons around but if you're not going to jailbreak your pants are quite tight as to what you can do we're gonna keep this comparison video as just a like it's official tweaks however if we're going to talk about registry hacking and knew wrong installation on the tilts - it's important to notice that you can do a lot of the same things if you jailbreak your phone on the iPhone 3GS definitely something just to keep in mind I don't jailbreak mine but something that you definitely could do so one of the other new things that came with the tilt - and windows mobile 6.5 is a new marketplace so one of the nice things about Windows Mobile in the past is that you can install programs nice and easily just via an installed cab file that you could download from your mobile browser and just install well they take that sort of format and put it in a much simpler easy to navigate package and I think that the marketplace is really nice and easy to use it's linked into your Windows Live account and you work just that you expect it would most popular some are free some are not you want to download one you just pick it can ask you for your live ID before it's gonna give you a description you're gonna need some screenshots and you're gonna need some reviews on it it's already 135 reviews it's a very nice app store scrolling is fluid and you get all the information that you need the app store on the iPhone actually looks relatively similar so we'll open that up here and you can view it by feature categories or top-25 and if you want to buy something it's linked to your iTunes account certainly if you're gonna talk about how the app stores behave it's got to be a draw however the app store on the iPhone just has much much much much much more in it right now I think that the app Marketplace on Windows Mobile is certainly going to catch up and there are thousands of Windows mobile applications that can be downloaded but they're just not all in the marketplace right now so the tilt to is called the tilt to for a reason and that's because it tilts up and as it tilts up it definitely shows you its full QWERTY keyboard so let's move on to the final comparison phase keyboard input so you can input text in a few different ways on the touch pro in the tilt - you can take advantage of the on-screen key so we'll open up Office Mobile go ahead open up word open up in your document and you get a either in landscape or QWERTY soft keyboard it's a little bit difficult to use but you can't scroll around to see the keys to make sure you're hitting the right one you can rotate it and get a landscape keyboard as well but if you're using one of these odds are you're gonna be doing most your typing like this and the full QWERTY keyboard is very easy to use and it's actually one of the better full physical keyboards that I've ever used it's very very simple it's got a lot of buttons you have an extra road just for symbols there's a nice throw and the keys you don't get that sort of limp feeling that you get in the middle it just works however when you do tilt the screen up you're gonna lose some of the room you had on that top row of keys yes there's a lot of room for your thumb there you tilt it up you're going to lose that so if you look at the keyboard on the iPhone for example I'm gonna go ahead and open up a nodes application you get a on-screen QWERTY keyboard either typing in landscape or portrait now before I tell you my opinion I should say that I use an iPhone 3GS as my primary phone so I'm much more familiar with the on-screen keyboard that it offers that being said I've gotten very used to typing on it and I think it is quite easy to use however it's not nearly as easy as having a full physical QWERTY keyboard like the one found on the tilt to it certainly rotates into landscape as well so overall guys in in conclusion it's really gonna come down to what you prefer if you like the elegance of the iPhone and I think there's really nothing better as far as its seamless easy to use experience I think you're going to get probably the best mobile web browsing experience so if your that's important to you if web browsing is a paramount importance and if you like picture viewing and video viewing and once your videos are done through iTunes and your songs are all download if they're iTunes it's gonna be tough to beat the iPhone 3GS however if you want more customization a more open platform the ability to sort of tweak it and have access to a few more file formats you can put a ton of different video and audio formats on the tilt to using its media player and built-in audio players it's a great way to go as well it's gonna come down to what you prefer so guys which one do you prefer agree to tilt to something of interest to you or you not interested in for a particular reason you hate the iPhone or you're not interested in the iPhone for particular reason curious to what you guys have to say leave a text or video response for inclusive content guides be sure to check me out on Twitter twitter.com slash John port Lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check outs TechnoBuffalo comm links of both will be in the sidebar and I'll see you in the next video buh-bye