Hah wow. That's alot to digest. I think at this point it's going to.come down to a battle between the MT and the kindle. It seems like for the price andthe ease of everything that the kindle will be a better choice. I can always get something better if needed down the road.
As long as I get a good version of the MT. I.would be pretty happy with that. Like wat said that little screen increase actually does make a hell of a difference and as you can see... almost a year into owning the optimus v ... I still am horrible at typing on it.
I can deal with Netflix on this little screen so an inch increase would be a world of difference if you know what I mean... ha
Its just for the things that the OV can't do which make me want the triumph and it seems like a kindle will almost make my.phone obsolete. Then ill have this large tab to drag around granted.I have the surgery and stop keeping myself shut in my house forever. Ugh I wish I could just play with someones MT and see what its like. That's probably my issue cause I've touchedxa kindle but not a MT. But if a HTC I.spire is closernough.of a comparison ..
I'd love it
with the MT, the stock rom is quite literally... bs. its bad.
some great devs over on AndroidForums have created good CM7 and MIUI roms, the only thing non functional is HDMI out. and the're working on a ICS rom thats growing fast.
if you are really considering it, and you actually HAVE the cash to spend. I would say to go pick it up in a retail store like Best Buy, bring it home, use Virgins website to swap service from your OV, ROM it with cm7 or miui, and test it out. one thing I will say is that the triumph has an unlocked bootloader and to install CWM recovery requires NO root, all you have to do is boot into a special mode, connect to your PC, drag and drop the new recovery in, rename it, reboot the phone, and its done. you can even use it to back up the stock rom completely untouched by root.
best of all, you can nandroid restore the stock rom, restore the stock recovery, and return the entire phone 100% stock to the store if you dont like it.
no ADB commands, no terminal emulator, none of that. just avoid the stock rom altogether but make a backup of it.
with MIUI, the Triumph is the smoothest phone I've ever used, of course im only comparing it hands on to the Galaxy S, the last high end phone I owned. and its worlds better than that. on miui and CM7, pretty much everything from scrolling homescreens to going up and down menu lists, opening apps, its all smoothly animated and fast like an iphone. I hate to compare it to that, but that is the only other phone device offering such a smooth UI experience.
the PPI on the Triumh is around 230, which is not as high as a retina display but unless your really anal about it and inspect your screen with a magnifying glass, you'd be hard pressed to point out that fact in every day use. Fonts look clean and crisp all the way down to tiny sizes. web pages are readable in the fully zoomed out mode, the text is so small it borders on uncomfortable. but individual letters dont turn into pixel smudges like on the OV.
the screen also does wonders for watching netflix. the size alone makes it actually comfortable to watch movies, I thought I loved netflix on my OV, but I cant get enough of it on the Triumph. I also bought a 16GB SD card and a few spare batteries so I could go a few days without being plugged into a wall and take my whole collection of music with me.
the screen is Standard Definition in a widescreen aspect ratio, 480x800, its close to a 16:10 aspect ratio, not a 3:2 like the OV, so widescreen content plays much nicer, fills out more of the screen. also, the Pixel Density is high enough that even SD content looks very good, no need to watch the HD version of everything and suffer with crap quality and slow buffering.
If you decide to try it, keep your OV and the Triumph, so you can swap service BACK to the OV before you return the triumph.
things to look out for when you turn on your triumph for the first time.
1. play around with the stock rom, but dont take any problems you see in it as permanent, all those problems are software based.
2. when you have CM7 or miui installed, look for a green blob in the cameras live view in the camera app, some have it some dont, it shows up in almost every picture. if you get it, its not a deal breaker but consider replacing it if you get more trouble.
3. speaker volume, the triumph media speakers are stereo, one on each side of the phone, and very loud. if your phones max volume is quiet, replace it. its supposed to be loud.
4. some triumphs have a touchscreen that occasionally misses taps and swipes, and the back and search keys may not respond for a few seconds at a time. I'd say for every 30 taps or swipes, it will miss 1 or 2. not a huge deal, I think it is more in the touchscreen driver itself, not the hardware. and the custom roms still use the stock touchscreen driver with minor fixes.
5. there is one known issue that affects ALL triumphs. it has real multi touch, but when two touch points cross axis, like rotating a picture all the way around, the axis will snap together when they get close to either perfectly horizontal or vertical. in viewing websites and stuff, it actually helps drag the pages around and stuff. but in games, it makes walking and aiming impossible.
the triumph can play modern combat 3 at full speed, no lag. but you will hate the game becuase you cant aim at anyone.
this problem is being worked on, its believed to be in software only, but so far it still exists and gaming will be out. except for things like angry birds or accelerometer based games. emulators work too since you can move the virtual controls to opposite corners of the screen.
I can see the touch problem being your major issue, but you should give the triumph a try at least for everything else it does. you can return it, get your 300, buy the kindle and have some cash left over as well. and in the end you will have made a better decision by at least trying both products before buying one to keep.
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