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| T-Mobile Dash Smartphone (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: T-Mobile Branded
Category: Wireless
List Price: $349.99
Buy New: $29.89
You Save: $320.10 (91%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 2489
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Dash
UPC: 610214614353
EAN: 0610214613455
ASIN: B000NNZT1Y
Release Date: February 21, 2007
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Takes a few days, but this phone does everything! May 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'll try and make this quick, but I went from a standard flip-phone to the Dash. In the first few days, I admit that I was somewhat frustrated with the overhead that it took to operate using the same tasks as my old LG flip. -But- once I got the hang of all of the shortcuts, this phone is so much better. It functions wonderfully as a PDA phone. It seems that I can literally do anything I want on this! So to cut the commentary short, this phone rules all other phones.
My quick positive/negative (and let me stress, none of the negative ruin this phone for me).
positives:
- There is a ton of support on the internet for 3rd party software for free, to over-clocking the processor, to adding an NES emulator, to creating your own wallpaper (if I can add this link, check out http://mobile.surrealnetworks.com/DashApps.htm for all sorts of cool stuff)
- The phone works great as a Multimedia player - especially after adding a miniSD card. I can't wait to get a Bluetooth-compatible car stereo to use this in my vehicle.
- If you search on google, you can find quite a bit of custom 'homescreens' that fit your liking. I ended up writing my own.
- It's great having a task manager to kill all unwanted programs that get stuck running in the background
- Any shortcomings can be worked around, for instance, the volume Jogger bar can be reloaded to act as a scrolling slide, or disabled all together. Hopefully when Windows Mobile 6 comes out, it will solve a lot of the bugginess
- and many more
negatives:
- I'm not used to the shape and it feels awkward holding it up to my face as compared to a flip phone - maybe this is also because it's so thin.
- It is windows, so if you can handle your PC crashing, you can handle this phone locking up. It's not horrible, but there are periodic moments of slowness, locking up, etc. They usually can be solved by killing all tasks or rebooting.
- I wish that there was a direct audio out, instead of just the USB/Power out, but it is nice that you can charge from a USB cable. You can also buy a splitter for under $10.
My Back Bone April 29, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
this phone is the best phone I've ever owned. Coming from
a palm tungsten e. I felt that I should combine the two
devices together I am only 17 and I love my techs.
Pros. and Cons
Pros...
Camera is great(everyone says its so clear like a digital camera)
The keypad is great for texting(which I use most)
POP3 email it allows me to get my gmail emails directly to my phone's inbox
Internet is awesome
windows media player is great for watching videos streaming radio and mp3 playback
You can record sound clips and use them as ringtones
and they still sound very clear
Bluetooth works great
Cons
Not 1 but the touch volume can be irritating but once your used to it, its ok
I'm never bored with this phone. My phone is constantly in my site.
The do-it-all phone! April 16, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Well I read through just about every review prior to purchasing this phone and was almost thinking twice about it after reading some of the reviews here, but I decided to take the plunge and go for it. Well I'm glad I did. All I can say is this phone has been a pleasure to use from the get-go. It has its flaws but what phone doesn't? The question is whether you're going go flip out over an alarm clock or volume strip or is it a trivial issue for you. Most of the gripes others have had just seem little to me. Let's talk about the pros and cons:
Pros:
1. Call quality is excellent. No static what so ever. No dropped calls. My area has good T-mobile coverage so I can't complain. As a phone it does what it's supposed to do. Make good quality calls. It also pairs with my bluetooth headset (Plantronics 510) really well. Speaker phone is of good quality too.
2. Internet works great. I have the $5.99 plan and yes EDGE isn't the fastest but it gets the job done. It doesn't matter where I'm at I can check my email, finds restaurants or directions, or just surf the web when I'm bored. It really came in handy when I was out on vacation and lost. WiFi works well too. Didn't want to fork out the money for hotspots though.
3. The camera at 1.3 megapixels is decent quality. No it's not going to replace my regular camera but I found it really handy when I forgot to take my camera to my friend's wedding, but was still able to take quality pictures. I haven't tried videos yet though.
4. Mp3/Video player: Now the speakers on this phone aren't the greatest so I wouldn't use them for listening to music but when plugged into a headset it sounds pretty good. I bought a 2GB microSD card bought here at Amazon and now I can hold a ton music and movies. Videos looks pretty nice I'd have to admit. This thing is my travelinig entertainment center. I even found a way to play original nintendo games on this thing and have been trying Mike Tyson's Punchout like back in the old days.
5. Calendar/schedule: I had a PDA but for some reason I'm more compelled to actually use my calendar and keep my schedule on this thing than I did with my Pocket PC. Probably because of convenience reasons.
6. Smartphone applications: I'm in the medical field and I keep all my medical applications on this phone. I can quickly look up drug references or research diseases. I really thought I'd need a touchscreen in order to better navigate these programs and while it might be slightly easier with a stylus, I don't find that it's all that necessary and still navigate pretty well. I just wish the processor were slightly faster for some of these apps, but it's more than adequate. And I'm not sure why people don't think there are a lot of programs for the smartphone. Programs written for WM5 are compatable with PPC as well as smartphones equally. [...].
7. Appearance: Everyone who sees this phone absolutely loves its looks and so do I. It looks great and feels great. I saw this side by side with the Motorola Q and the Q just looked so much bulkier and...well... not as nice. The rubber backing feels awesome.
8. Battery: For all that I use this phone for it makes it through the day with plenty battery to spare which is all I can really ask for. I wouldn't go 2 days without charging the battery though. You should charge it every night.
Cons:
1. Windows Mobile 5: Mighty Microsoft needs to write a cleaner program. However Windows Mobile 6 is on the way and will be free to download for T-Mobile customer soon so hopefully that'll take care of some of the problems. I swear just to turn on the bluetooth and pair up my bluetooth device takes me a whole minute just because of how hard it is to navigate WM5.
2. Volume strip: Yeah like everyone says it sucks. I disabled mine. Adjusting the volume with this thing is tedious at best. Luckily my music/video programs as well as my stereo headset allow me easier ways to adjust the volume so it's not such an issue for me.
3. Alarm clock: Now I don't use this all that much but I see what everyone says about it and yeah it's a pretty idiotic written program. However rather than writing half a page on how bad it is I downloaded a free one from the internet that works great so my life now goes on.
Summary: So I use this device to make quality phone calls, surf the web, check email, play games, listen to music, watch movies, monitor my schedule, check my medical references, and take decent quality pictures. All this thing needs now is a laser beam that will cut through metal and it'd be the greatest gadget known to man.
 Looks are deceiving April 4, 2007
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love the way the phone looks and feels but that's about it. From finding contacts to dropped call this phone functions well below any phone I've ever owned. I've had it now for 3 months and my frustration level continues to rise.
Mini PDA and Great cell phone April 4, 2007
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I was carrying a PDA and a Razr cell phone. When I got this phone I gave my PDA to my brother and my Razr to my daughter. I love the full contact list with addresses, all the phone numbers and notes that are in my Outlook are now in my Dash and it syncs with Outlook. The calendar is really nice and that too syncs with Outlook. I don't try to use it for browsing the internet, but I do use T-mobiles T-zones to collect all my email from all my various email address types. It took some learning to find the easiest way to get to everything, but it's there if you look. For example, called and received numbers log with one key press of the send button, extremely easy contact look up by just starting to spell the name of what you're looking for and everything else gets eliminated, and my favorite applications stay on the home screen at the top so that they are only a push away.
It has EVERYTHING that any cell phone has and works as well or better and easier. The speaker phone is great, clear and plenty loud enough; bluetooth syncs with my GPS without a hitch and one touch (or speed) dialing is great, you can even have two digit spead dialing by holding the second digit until it begins to dial. I can store hundreds of phone numbers in number locations I choose (like my brother's home is 5, cell is 15 and wifes cell is 25), then use the number of the location to make a call instead of looking up numbers.
All in all, I find that I have service across the country without much trouble and I drive rather than fly. If you have T-mobile cell service, their t-zones for email and many other internet based services is only $5 and T-Zones w/WiFi service is only $20 (monthly), can't beat that. The full keyboard makes text messaging and keeping notes MUCH easier and more fun. It's not a full PDA, but it does everything I did with my PDA, and with the updated firmware you can edit your word and excel documents.
It's way more than a phone, really small and thin, easy to carry, easy to lock and unlock the keyboard. It takes nice pictures for emergencies if I don't have a camera and it uses a mini SD card, which I have installed and use to store pictures and videos.
Personally, I can't think of a negative thing about it. It's not a laptop computer, but I think it's the best cell phone on the market. My cousin has the blackberry and he's jealous of me and my Dash.
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