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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: $16.95
You Save: $333.04 (95%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 198
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Great phone but far too fragile for everyday use October 26, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have had this T-Mobile Dash for about a year now and I am on my second one. I cracked the screen on the first one by putting it in my pocket without the case. I had to pay the whopping $110 that the insurance company uses as a deductible. What a rip off. That is probably what they pay for the phone wholesale. I then had the next phone for about four months before the same thing happened. I am not sure how it cracked this time, but it did. In my opinion, they shouldn't create a phone that cant handle a bit of pressure on its screen before cracking. I am very seriously thinking about dumping this phone because I can't afford to spend $110 every few months or so to have this phone. Don't get me wrong, the smart phone functions are great, the battery life is fine, but too fragile.
Worst phone I've ever had. October 19, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This phone is absolute garbage and adds re-enforcement to my theory that micrsoft puts out anything and do not care about quality control anymore these days.
Problems I've had with the phone:
1. My sim card erased everything and decided not to work anymore. I had to go to a Tmobile location to get a new one and all my contacts and info was gone.
2. I can't access my text messages..I have to restart the phone constantly
3. It's freezed on me about 10 times now and I've had the phone for 6 months.
4. Most obnoxious of all, a few hours will go by and ill think to myself "weird my phone hasn't gone off" and ill make a call or text and my phone decides to just be shut off on it's own (i mean the actual connection of the phone, not the phone being turned off itself). I'm constantly turning it off/on and going to the comm manager to turn on the signal again.
(update on this phone a year later)
- Battery life is near a minimum of two hours if you actually use this phone.
- This phone fried my sim card and I lost everything, I had to get another sim card.
- Phone still freezes more than it used to.
- The profiles change on it's own and I had this phone go off on me in meetings, funerals, you name it.
- the phone shuts off on me when i'm in the middle of a website, emails, text message.
If I can change the 2 star to one, I would but I can't So let me say it here....DON'T BUY THIS PHONE. It's absolutely terrible. Worst phone I've ever had to deal with in my entire life.
ONE STAR!
 Good Phone CRACK SCREEN! October 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Okay get this, left my phone on my desk in my room and left for an hour, i had locked the door so nobody could have touched it, came home and screen was cracked for no reason. Went to T-Mobile Store and it was my fault annd would cost me $110! Stay away
 Great phone, nice wifi crappy camera August 18, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this phone to replace my blackberry 7820 and Razor V3xx. I was constantly switching my sim card from home to work and bought this as an all in one. I love this phone. bluetooth, wifi, voice recorder, windows media player, great reception. BUT crappy camera. Would be great except for that. Razr v3xx is 100 times better camera.
 Picked this over the iPhone, and I'm Glad August 6, 2007
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
Let me begin by saying that I have been a long time admirer of Apple, and have the five volumes of "Inside Macintosh" for developers to prove it. In fact, before they moved to OS/X, I used to develop printer drivers for the Mac.
So when the iPhone was announced, I looked at the release date, and when I would be looking for a new phone, and thought the timing was pretty good.
However, after reading the reviews (positive and negative), and doing my research, I picked up a T-mobile Dash instead.
Why?
First off, both phones use the EDGE network. So browsing speed wasn't going to be a difference. However the Dash uses Windows Mobile 6 (with the free update) that has a version of IE that is about as good as Safari. Not to mention that the Dash also supports the Mobile version of Opera. Like the iPhone, the Dash also supports WiFi browsing, and the phone plan (similar costs) includes free use of T-mobile's hotspots - which are much more numerous in my experience than the AT&T ones (Starbucks anyone?)
Then there's the cost. The Dash with a 1 gig MicroSD card is about $25 (Dash is free, the MicroSD card is what's expensive). The iPhone, of course, is several hundred more than that. I could have gotten my whole family Dashes for the price of one four gig iPhone. And of course the microSD card is removable and replaceable (as is the battery).
While the Dash does NOT have a touch screen, it DOES have a physical keyboard. My typing speed is already 30wpm, and I wouldn't be surprised if I get up to 50 or 60 (compared to my desktop speed of 80-90). The Dash has a somewhat smaller display, but it has the longer battery life to go with it.
Then there is the comparison of the voice plans. With T-Mobile you have the "MyFaves" plan that lets you setup five phone numbers on any network for free calls. With the iPhone, your AT&T folks are free, but everyone else starts burning minutes - and fast. For me, having those five numbers means that I'm pretty much covered. Not to mention that T-Mobile is consistently ranked higher for customer satisfaction and coverage compared to AT&T.
Oh, and unlike the iPhone, there's a version of Skype for the Dash, so I can make calls over WiFi to folks who aren't in "MyFaves" at no additional cost beyond the normal Skype out fee. I don't think there will be a Skype for iPhone anytime soon.
Finally, WindowsMobile, for all of it's Microsoft issues, does have a fair library of apps I can install, and support for a number of things that you will have to wait for on the iPhone. And there is an SDK out there for developing your own apps if you don't find what you need.
For me, and considering the above, the T-mobile Dash was the right answer. Something you might want to consider if you're looking for a new smartphone.
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