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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a comparison between the HTC Touch pro2 and the HTC Touch pro we've been getting a lot of requests to do this comparison because people that have the touch pro are wondering if they should upgrade to the brand new Touch pro2 or if they should wait or if they should pay the money etc and so forth in this video we're going to compare the hardware of the two devices and in the next video we're going to compare the software so let's start off comparing the specifications of the two devices both devices clock in at five hundred and twenty eight megahertz running Qualcomm CPUs although interestingly the touch pro2 has a slightly older version of that processor the MSM 7200 a and the touch pro has the MSM 2070 201a both devices have 512 megabytes of RAM storage ROM and 288 megabytes of RAM though again oddly the touch pro2 has about 20 megabytes less of available RAM meaning your ability to multitask is slightly decreased on the touch pro2 because you're missing that extra 20 megabytes of RAM both devices share pretty much everything else they both have Wi-Fi B and G they have a GPS they have bluetooth although the touch Pro has 2.0 and the touch pro2 as the new 2.1 both have extended data rate on the Bluetooth the touch pro has an FM radio whereas the touch pro2 oddly does not although it's possible that it has the capability just not through the software the guys that XD developers are trying to work something up to get that to work so that's pretty much it on specifications we're going to post the link on pocket down now showing these two devices side by side so you can get a better feel from all of the specifications that differ between them so let's talk about the actual design of the devices when i zoom in a little bit the first thing that you notice is that the screen on the touch pro2 is huge it's 3.6 inches by comparison the huge screened HTC Touch HD has a 3.8 inch screen and really you really can't tell the difference between the two by that point two inch margin in fact a lot of people are calling the touch pro2 the Touch HD pro because if you take a touch HD add a slide-out keyboard you pretty much have the touch pro2 by comparison the touch pro has ace much smaller 2.8 inch screen the bigger screen makes a huge difference it looks beautiful it looks fantastic and the resolution has also been increased so on the touch pro2 the resolution is 800 down and 480 across whereas on the touch pro it's only 640 down and 480 across so you're really getting an additional bit of widescreen there that helps a lot when you're viewing webpages or when you're using Google Maps mobile or reading an email the extra resolution helps now something that the touch pro2 doesn't have many of his hardware buttons in the touch pro we have a nice d-pad we can click in the center we have four hardware buttons but on the touch pro we don't have a d-pad and a lot of people are asking does that actually make a difference and yeah it's a little bit of annoying and annoying sometimes but the interface is well enough optimized to where you don't really miss having a d-pad down there and especially with the slide-out keyboard which has the d-pad kind of buttons over here it's not that big of a deal so we also get the zoom slider on the touch pro2 which allows you to zoom in when you're viewing a picture or in Google Maps or in your internet browser but I don't use it too much personally because I find it to be very imprecise it's much more precise to double tap on an area on the screen that you want to zoom into rather than kind of arbitrarily zoom into the center or a random part of the screen let's flip them over and take a look at how they compare in terms of thickness so the touch pro2 is actually two millimeters thinner than the touch pro which is great the touch pro was always a hefty device that said it is taller and it is wider let me see if I can line these up it is wider so it does feel like a big device but it feels good in hand it feels very high quality it's actually about 13 grams heavier than the touch pro which i think is actually pretty good because if you get a device like the touch pro2 such a high end device you make it half the weight it suddenly is gonna feel kind of cheap so the weight is a good thing and it feels quite nice so let's continue our tour around the device here on this side we have the auxiliary microphone that is used for straight talk we'll talk about that in a second and then we have the styli the stylus on the touch pro will suck itself in when you get close because it's magnetic but the styli there the stylus on the touch pro2 does not it is not magnetic you have to push it in all the way not sure why they admitted this feature it was really great to have the magnetic stylus that said on both devices when you take out the stylus the screen automatically turns on so that feature remains there and here we are on the back and let's zoom in a little bit both devices have a 3.2 megapixel camera although the touch pro had a flash and the touch pro2 does not the flasher really helps a lot in low-light situations and so if you take a picture with the touch pro2 when it's dimly lit outside just near sunset or you're inside there's not that much light pictures are going to come out noisy that said both devices have selective autofocus which is really helpful to take a picture of a macro and that sort of thing now what we see back here is a little different is a button to mute the speakerphone the touch pro2 has a really fantastic speakerphone with straight talk technology so if you're on a call and you want to go to speakerphone you simply take your device and put it flat on it's on the screen this will automatically turn on the speakerphone which utilizes two microphones one here and one down there to provide noise cancellation I actually tested this by having someone in a bathroom with the water on and I was talking to them on the handset and then I told them to turn over the phone and when they did that the water sound was very much quieted so the noise cancellation does work and they're also two speakers here to make the speakerphone a little more loud so that you can hear more than you would if you were using the touch Pro speakerphone so if we take off the back battery covers we find that the battery on the touch pro2 is a little bit big than it is on the touch pro2 milliamp hours here 13:40 milliamp hours here and are in our tests the touch pro2 actually is worse battery life than the touch pro it may be because the screen takes a lot of power to illuminate it maybe because the keyboard which is completely backlit you can't see it because it's off right now takes a lot of energy to be backlit could be for a variety of reasons maybe it's the ROM maybe it's the older CPU but the battery life on the touch pro2 is slightly worse than it is on the touch pro and if you're considering the touch pro2 you probably really care about how the keyboard is and of course the HTC touch pro has a slide-out keyboard which has Magnus isten s-- with a spring so you bring it kind of halfway and it goes the rest of the way ditto with the touch pro2 I think over time it gets kind of weak so the touch pro2 is very springy whereas the Sprint version of the touch pro isn't as springy so let's take a look at these keyboards side-by-side the first thing that you're going to notice and let's zoom in a little bit is that the surface area is much greater on the touch pro2 than it is on the touch pro we get about let's see how much distance this is we get about 3/4 of an inch maybe an inch extra of keyboard space which really allows for wider keys and as you can see the keyboard layout is offset on the touch pro2 compared to the touch pro which is which is unnaturally arranged in a grid a keyboard shouldn't be arranged in a grid if you look at it on a keyboard or laptop or desktop they are offset like this for a reason it's more ergonomic and because of that the keyboard on the touch pro2 is very very very good especially for people with medium or large size hands that have a problem with really scrunched up keyboards maybe they found that the touch pro2 had a scrunched up keyboard but a very nice keyboard indeed we don't have that many shortcut buttons on here so we don't have a button to the Start menu or an OK button or even programmable keys but we do get a dedicated number row at the top which is very much welcomed we get a link to messaging here a link to the web browser and of course you get all your symbols up here I have to do is press function to get to them on the touch pro we have also a dedicated number row we have a link to email to change your profile so pretty much the same in terms of actual buttons but the main difference is just that the layout is completely different and the keys are much larger on the touch pro now of course another reason you're probably considering the touch pro2 is because of the tilting screen came back the tilting screen goes up about 50 degrees which is less than the tighten to tighten to went up about 80 degrees and actually if you look closely what's keeping it from tilting is a little piece of a little piece of fabric here it's probably really difficult to see and behind the piece of fabric there is a piece of wire so HDC probably put that there so that people don't turn over the screen all the way and rip out the wires making this display go dead but I feel like they could have gotten another few degrees of tilt out of that I know it's very tough to tell on the video but anyway so you get fifty degrees of tilting which is great the touch pro of course didn't allow for tilting so if you wanted to you know sit at a desk and watch a movie or if you're on a plane you'd have to position the device up like this kind of awkwardly not the case with the touch pro2 the tilting screen is awesome and it's a ton of utility and it's a great addition to an already awesome device so the big question if you have a touch pro should you upgrade to the touch pro2 I'd say yes and I would also encourage you to wait till it comes out on your carrier so that you can get it at a subsidized price the fact that there are so many hardware improvements to the touch pro2 the fact that you get a free windows mobile 6.5 upgrade the fact that it just works so well really makes it from a hardware perspective a compelling upgrade of course we're going to talk about software coming up in the next comparison video so watch out for that and if you want more on the HTC Touch pro2 be sure to check out our unboxing software tour and hardware tour videos and I'll put a link up on the video right now so that you can click on to those since we're at the end of this video now so that's it for the comparison between the HTC Touch pro2 from the touch we'll be back soon with the software comparison that's it for now