Paul Reviews.... the HTC TyTN II (Kaiser)

[Guest J273]

Since Kaiser has TouchFLO interface, the only thing missing is a good finger virtual keyboard to reduce the need to slide out keyboard for just a short txt message. Today I found a good SIP keyboard which works like iphone keyboard. Basically, it will enlarge the letter and will only select the letter when you release it instead of pressing it.

I downloaded and installed it on my HTC Apache. But to make it work on my machine, I have to use SIPChange to select it as default keyboard.

It works as promised up to now. The keys are smaller than iphone keyboard, but that is what we should expect given the difference between 2.8 inches and 3.5 screen.

You can freely download it at the website:

http://pocketcm.com/keyboard.php

A review (including Youtube video) is given at The Unwired at

http://www.theunwired.net/?item=input-pock...-with-htc-touch

With this, it would be a tough choice between Kaiser and Polaris !?

Yeah ive been using this for a little while with the default layout.....Much prefer it over the standard keyboard input.

edit:

sorry after re reading it i was taliking about the 'happytapping keyboard'

this still looks pretty good though....may have to give it a try.

Edited August 23, 2007 by J273

[Guest Joe Ruszkiewicz]

Paul - now that you are at or near the final build, are you experiencing any lockups or other problems with the Kaiser?

- Joe

[Guest GordonTGopher]

They've posted a data sheet for the Tytn II over at HTCClub (http://www.htcclub.net/ ) this isn't an official HTC site and it's not a high quality image so some details are hard to read, but either it's real or someone's spent a lot of time!

Another step closer?

Gordon

[Guest Brounoh]

They've posted a data sheet for the Tytn II over at HTCClub (http://www.htcclub.net/ ) this isn't an official HTC site and it's not a high quality image so some details are hard to read, but either it's real or someone's spent a lot of time!

Another step closer?

Gordon

this is the same but bigger:

http://www.htcclub.net/storage/downloads/H...ctsheet_2MB.pdf

same source

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

No weight on there, I want to know if these 160g claims are true ;)

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[Guest J273]

No weight on there, I want to know if these 160g claims are true ;)

P

What do you think to the weight Paul?...Thats the only thing putting me off does it feel overly to heavy?

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

I have no problem with it. It's no lightweight, but it's fine for me.

P

[Guest GordonTGopher]

Paul,

How heavy is the battery, could it be 160 without, 192 with?

Gordon

[Guest luis omar]

somebody knows if this phone has 3.6 mbps of download speed or it has 7.2 mbps¿? if it has initially 3.6 mbps, could be possible to upgrade the data speed by a rom change or something to reach 7.2 mbps?¿ i am very interested in this question. cheers

[Guest NuShrike]

They're back to listing USD $799.95 for Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007.

If you've been reading HoFo, you've probably already seen this for the USA guys:

E-Gadget Depot: $795.00 USD + 2 accessories (screen protector, car charger) 2007/9/17.

Better than Elite-Electronix, but shipping ~10 days later. However, don't know how honest EE is about their date-to-customer.

Should be 192g with battery as Paul previously reported on his kitchen scale.

Edited August 23, 2007 by NuShrike

[Guest Joe Ruszkiewicz]

Perhaps 160g is without the battery?

[Guest gregersdk]

Since you all say, that we we know everything now... do we know if the GPS is AGPS or SiRF Star III? It dosen't say anywhere in the Kaiser, I'm sorry to say... Did spend some time looking for it...

EDIT: Hmm.. the Data sheet says AGPS, but do we now for sure? Still hoping for SiRF

Edited August 23, 2007 by gregersdk

[Guest lozzd]

EDIT: Hmm.. the Data sheet says AGPS, but do we now for sure? Still hoping for SiRF

I think there is a pretty small chance of HTC posting the wrong information on their data sheet. <_<

[Guest Hightech]

I think there is a pretty small chance of HTC posting the wrong information on their data sheet. <_<

One week left for this device to come out if the date of 9/03/2007 is correct crossing my fingers... ;)

[Guest TeDeV]

i am guessing that Kaiser will come out at 5th, and get to stores by 10th. so let's say 2 weeks .

[Guest Brounoh]

guysss, you make me nervous...

if I see dates it make it true in my mind... but after few weeks of long a painful waiting if a "trustful leak" doesn't say a special thing about the release I don't believe!

Different website of expensys do not agree etc...

I cross my fingers to see it in store in few days/weeks but honestly I don't believe in it yet

[Guest TeDeV]

i believe in it. but all this time that we WAIT for it to be published made us nervous....

[Guest Hightech]

i am guessing that Kaiser will come out at 5th, and get to stores by 10th. so let's say 2 weeks .

I would not be surprise if the stores already have them and are keeping a tight lip about it until the sale date...

[Guest Heinz2004]

@Paul: Could you please try to take one picture

from a letter or an Flyer (ca. 30cm x 20 cm)?

This may give us additional information on the quality

of the camera with Autofocus and Makro.

Thx!

Kaiser release date:

My guess is 8/31/2007 or 9/1/2007 as this is the

beginning of the big IFA-Fair in Berlin.

"... new devices like the MDA Touch and MDA Vario III ..."

Edited August 23, 2007 by Heinz2004

[Guest ScrewlooseAZ]

@Paul: Could you please try to take one picture

from a letter or an Flyer (ca. 30cm x 20 cm)?

I thought he took a picture of a buisness card. . . Somewhere back there.

If not Paul then someone else did, but either way it looked pretty sharp.

[Guest Kchrpm]

Couple of previously posted pictures with text:

http://www.modaco.com/content/uploads/mont...-1183777882.jpg

http://www.modaco.com/content/uploads/mont...-1183777387.jpg

Hint for searching the thread quickly: click Options, then Download This Topic. Pick one of the formats and it will show you the entire thread on one huge page ;)

And the business card picture was in the video in this news post:

http://www.modaco.com/HTC-Kaiser-roundup-t257799.html

Edited August 24, 2007 by Kchrpm

[Guest mapletian]

hi , just see a Spb benchmark index and kaiser has scored 438, this is only half of o2 Flame(intel 520, scores 800),and cpu test scores 17xx, compared to Flame 2100, so, please can Paul or anyone tell me does it mean Kaiser is slow or hard to handel in some applications?

btw, i got a Dopod 838 pro(previous version of Kaiser) with slide keyboad too, now the keyboard starts to lose, with amount of flex or movement in any direction,so is Kaiser going to be like that as well?

many thanks

[Guest xricex]

wow still no announcement a week b4 sept... anouncement nxt week? ...since at&t sept 3rd release....?

[Guest clarkster]

hi , just see a Spb benchmark index and kaiser has scored 438, this is only half of o2 Flame(intel 520, scores 800),and cpu test scores 17xx, compared to Flame 2100, so, please can Paul or anyone tell me does it mean Kaiser is slow or hard to handel in some applications?

btw, i got a Dopod 838 pro(previous version of Kaiser) with slide keyboad too, now the keyboard starts to lose, with amount of flex or movement in any direction,so is Kaiser going to be like that as well?

many thanks

The o2 flame has the nvidia chipset as well, so it will beat most things with benchmarking (and to also lose it's power)

[Guest Heinz2004]

Thank you for the pictures.

Can you read a telefax or a letter (with smaller characters) if you scan it with this 3.0 Megapixel camera?

This was not possible with other HTC-devices. But now I think scanning of a document ist possible with the HTC-Kaiser

because of the wide range of the autofocus.

As the business card works with OCR (Optical Charakter Recognition) there may be a chance of using

OCR-Software on Kaiser-scanns.

Flipchart-Dokumentation is an other application.

Edited August 24, 2007 by Heinz2004