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T-Mobile Dash PDA Phone
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$399.99
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Overall Rating
1 Star Review
Reviewed by: txlatinmarine
Updated:08-22-07
Duration of ownership:6 Months
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 Evaluation: 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.
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Overall Rating
1 Star Review
Reviewed by: bloom691
Updated:07-17-07
Duration of ownership:7 Months
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 Evaluation: 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.
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: ixcafe
Updated:01-21-07
Duration of ownership:45 Days
Strengths: Plenty of features, Reasonably priced, Sleek, & Solid
Weaknesses: Slow processor, Lack of battery life
Overall Evaluation: 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).
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: sumit_kulkarni
Updated:01-13-07
Duration of ownership:60 Days
Strengths: phone size,windows smarth phone ,wifi,bluetooth, applications,great battery life
Weaknesses: no touch screen, no standard earphone socket, volume slide bar
Overall Evaluation: 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
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: qwertangel
Updated:01-11-07
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Strengths: Wifi, slim, nice to hold in hand
Weaknesses: volume strip too sensitive, no alphanumeric dialling helper (e.g. difficult to translate 800.abc.defg to number.
Overall Evaluation: Got this for $50 from tmobile. Love it !! some things were not right out of box 1) volume strip was too sensitive.. so when talking to someone, it would reduce the volume to zero.. !! had to disable it 2) default ring volume was too low.. however later found out that I can edit the 'normal' profile to increase the ring volume. Works great after that. Another problem i faced was dialing when the alphabets are used in number as memory aids. Fixed that by replacing BrandingBrick.gif by an image which has mappings of alphabets and numbers. Now instead of tmobile logo it displays the mapping which helps in dialing the number. Otherwise a great phone !!
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: duhang
Updated:01-10-07
Duration of ownership:30 Days
Strengths: Tons of features, sleek, and solid
Weaknesses: Immature OS, loud speaker sounds very cheap, no dial/wheel
Overall Evaluation: Finally, I could indulge myself with a Blackberry equivalent without having to pay for the expensive BlackBerry data plan.I had this phone for a little over 1 month now. Every feature of this phone is solid and the phone itself is rock solid too, I had dropped it on cement floor twice, not a single scratch. (Well, I do have screen protector on it though).I would highly recommend it to anyone who either tired of their Blackberries or have been waiting to get a Blackberry but was scared by the high service fee
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: wolfden
Updated:01-03-07
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Strengths: light weight, small size
Weaknesses: screen size can be bigger
Overall Evaluation: Got this phone for $50 after rebate from tmobile with one year contract, it was really a good deal. It come with the phone, charger, USB cable and stero ear phone. But the microSD is not included. The screen is bright, but is not bigger enough. Speaker is loud. Overall it feels very solid in hand. definitly recommended.
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: qwertin_1
Updated:12-30-06
Duration of ownership:30 Days
Strengths: Good body, nice audio, sleek, nice keyboard and features
Weaknesses: Volume is very low, volume touch strip is irritating and flaky
Overall Evaluation: Works great. Very good phone. Very Sleek. In short a sleek blackberry. Typing text message is very easy. Look and feel is excellent, a very satisfied customer except that tmobile signal is not very good.
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: old_cotton
Updated:12-28-06
Duration of ownership:1 Months
Strengths: WM5.0. Qwerty key. Wi-fi. Bluetooth.
Weaknesses: None so far.
Overall Evaluation: I bought this smartphone to replace my 2-year old HP iPAQ 6315. Its little body comes with 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, 2.4inch QVGA. The qwerty key are very helpful, I can type SMS much quicker than before. Built-in wi-fi and bluetooth makes internet connection very easy. I also use it as a MP3 player (just got a 1GB MicroSD 1 week ago) to listen music wirelessly with my Moto HT820 bluetooth stereo headphone. Very happy with it! Highly recommend!
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: godd2
Updated:12-26-06
Duration of ownership:25 Days
Strengths: Small and thin compared to other PDAUseability is excellentWIFI enabled
Weaknesses: Volumn strip is not properly placedNo infraredNo Office application to edit existing application
Overall Evaluation: I really like this phone a lot.The greatest complaint I have is the volumn strip. It is placed where I touch too frequently. I always turn off and on the volumn without I knowing about it.But I like the WIFI enabled phone. Great phone
