New found toy: ATamp;T Tilt (HTC Kaiser or TyTN II)

Recently I switched from Sprint to ATT. Financially it was a bad move, I was paying much less with Sprint including the unlimited data (just $5 per month). But I have been with sprint for last 7 years and kind of got bored with it. Moreover, the trend is moving towards GSM. Sprint is very slow to adopt to new phones, their phones are boring and have no statement. But their service has been wonderful all these years and I had no real reason to move other than getting into the “in” thing. I like toys, electronic toys and thats the place to be if I wanted to try new GSM phones without worrying about contacts. For long past, I have been an advocate of CDMA technology. And probably still I do, but thats not what the world wants. CDMA is not getting successful in winning markets across globe. Other than US and Canada, there are very few CDMA playres in the world.

So, here I come to the GSM world. With two fancy phones to begin with. For myself I got ATT Tilt a little modified version of HTC’s TyTN II, the best and most powerful PDA phone in the world today (some may argue in favor of Nokia N95). But I am not a Nokia fan. Never was.

For my wife I got a Pantech Duo from ATT. She is not one of those people who like to keep a Super Computer in their phones. She just wanted a simple easy to use phone. My first condition was that it should have a hard keyboard (not soft screen based like on Tilt). It should have bluetooth, music player and some customization options. I wanted to buy something Windows mobile based for her  so whatever tricks I learn for my TIlt, I could pass on to her .

It’s a fancy phone with Dual sliding keyboards. One for number keys and one for text.

Will post about my experience with Tilt in next few blog entries.