T-Mobile Dash (Windows Mobile 6)

T-Mobile Dash

Dash (Windows Mobile 6) Review, by Christopher Null January 2, 2007

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• Reviewed by: picky44

  Strengths: internet connection, signal of the quad band

  Weaknesses: not so responsive, it's slow the program is not smart especially in capitalization and shifting of characters. No auto save of text messages.

  Overall: I thought this quad band would impress me since it's suppose to function like a computer but instead I'm disappointed. Why my Motorola pink razor is more productive than this the only difference is the signal strength between the two. This is expensive too. The internet cost 19.99 to make use of this feature.

• Reviewed by: txlatinmarine

  Strengths: compact

  Weaknesses: need newest windows mobile software for best performance, very weak speaker, very short batt life, must purchase interent and hotspots to get interent (29.99/month), slow processor/limited memory.

  Overall: 29.99 for internet you'll have to cancel your internet at home... don't buy because it devalues to 1/4th original cost when you walk off the lot. Very little customer support for technical issues with email set up. T-mobile blames your email provider and email providers blame T-mobile... meanwhile your stuck with a horrible phone that won't function and no one to help you.

• Reviewed by: bloom691

  Strengths: Great display, very solid feel, mostly great software

  Weaknesses: Sync to Outlook can be a BIG problemBattery cover tends to fall out when pulling phone from holster

  Overall: On the whole a great phone but has two serious flaws, one of which is intrinsic to all DASH phones: - Calendar will not sync correctly to Outlook if you live in Arizona. This is a known issue and there is no work around (a patch was released but does not work, and now T-Mobile seem to have given up). For me, living in Arizona and not being able to take my calendar with me is a show stopper. I can't live with this problem! - Often when you hit "answer" the phone hangs-up right away. This may be just my phone, but T-Mobile diagnosed it to the volume strip being hit as you hit answer. Their solution - disable the volume strip. Great, but how do I now change volume....? Other than this, it is a fine phone! WiFi works flawlessly, and web-browsing is as good as you can get on a small screen.

• Reviewed by: ixcafe

  Strengths: Plenty of features, Reasonably priced, Sleek, & Solid

  Weaknesses: Slow processor, Lack of battery life

  Overall: First, don't be fooled by the picture. The actual unit is as sleek as you can imagine which is perfect for a QWERTY unit. The quad-band-wifi-bluetooth-gprs-edge functionality will satisfy all your pre-3G communication need. WM5 SME is still immature and less polished comparing to other phone OS. There are plenty of missing features, fine tunes and improvement need to be made by adding 3rd party softwares or modifying Windows Mobile registry and system files. So expect you have to do some dirty works to fully customize your Dash to your need and be prepared (means fully backup regularly) to "hard reset or cold boot" your unit from time to time like we did for other Windows OS. In the end, I wish Dash has a bit more computing juice (400M instead of 201M, which was tuned down to 180M in actual use), and a larger battery pack (1800+mAh comparing to current 960mAh).

• Reviewed by: sumit_kulkarni

  Strengths: phone size,windows smarth phone ,wifi,bluetooth, applications,great battery life

  Weaknesses: no touch screen, no standard earphone socket, volume slide bar

  Overall: I love the form factor of this phone.Its light and compact.It has bright crisp screen.It also has all the features which a 2007 mobile phone should have. It has bluetooth , WI-FI , Micro SD slot for expanded memory space. I don't like the fact that it does not have the touch screen and because of my 3 years of habit of using Sony Clie NX 80, it sometimes annoys me.But I was knowing it does not have touch screen before I bought it. Overall I love my TMobile Dash and I will definitely recommend it for some one who is searching for replacement of their blackberry or treos