PDA/Smartphone Recommendations

[SIUav8er]

Ive got the T-Mobile Dash. Its ok, and really cheap! it has windows mobile on it, so you can load programs, as well as use outlook. it has wifi, and a crapy web browser. It cost me $140 with a 2 year extension of my contract. The data plan for e-mail was 5 bucks a month on top of my regular bill.

 

[killbilly]

Ive got the T-Mobile Dash. Its ok, and really cheap! it has windows mobile on it, so you can load programs, as well as use outlook. it has wifi, and a crapy web browser. It cost me $140 with a 2 year extension of my contract. The data plan for e-mail was 5 bucks a month on top of my regular bill.

The Dash is going to be replaced - I believe HTC has stopped or is going to stop making it altogether. (It's the HTC Excalibur, I believe.)

I've tried out a number of devices lately because I'm incredibly picky about my mobile toys - no one device has been outstanding. The Tmobile shadow comes close, but the battery life on it was a complete dealkiller.

Right now, if I HAD to make a decision, it'd be either an iPhone or LG's Voyager. I'm holding out another couple of months, though. The SDK for the iPhone is supposed to be released in February, so if any of the rumblings I've seen on the 'net are half-accurate, there will be a BUNCH of new progs for the iPhone in the next 60 days.

 

[derg]

I have a Tmobile dash. I can't say I'm a fan! Slow boot time, quirky, that volume strip is a pain in the rump and it really left me craving just a basic telephone.

If you text message primarily, the thing is like butter, but overall....MEH!

 

[SteveC]

I want a phone, and I want to be able to sync my contacts and calendar to it so I don't need a seperate PDA. I want it small so I can carry it in my pocket.

That's all I want. No other BS.

Suggestions?

 

[killbilly]

I want a phone, and I want to be able to sync my contacts and calendar to it so I don't need a seperate PDA. I want it small so I can carry it in my pocket.

That's all I want. No other BS.

Suggestions?

Steve,

You can do that with 99% of the phones out there these days. I have a Sony-Ericsson W810i right now and it's an excellent value. Yes, it has camera and mp3 player, but you don't have to use all those features if you don't want to. It's small, it syncs, and has great battery life.

And I just might be willing to sell mine.

 

[SteveC]

Steve,

You can do that with 99% of the phones out there these days. I have a Sony-Ericsson W810i right now and it's an excellent value. Yes, it has camera and mp3 player, but you don't have to use all those features if you don't want to. It's small, it syncs, and has great battery life.

And I just might be willing to sell mine.

I've got a Motorola V276 and it has a built in calendar, but I've never gotten it to sync correctly. I have Mobile Phone Tools, and invariably will end up with multiple copies of events on the phone every time it syncs. The software sucks and the end result is unusable. Maybe that is a Motorola idiosyncracy though, I don't know. Anyone else sync their calendar successfully, not on a PDA style phone?

I'm guessing your phone won't work on Verizon (CDMA)?

 

[killbilly]

I've got a Motorola V276 and it has a built in calendar, but I've never gotten it to sync correctly. I have Mobile Phone Tools, and invariably will end up with multiple copies of events on the phone every time it syncs. The software sucks and the end result is unusable. Maybe that is a Motorola idiosyncracy though, I don't know. Anyone else sync their calendar successfully, not on a PDA style phone?

I'm guessing your phone won't work on Verizon (CDMA)?

I had probs with Mobile Phone Tools when I carried a moto phone. Personally, (and I know millions of RAZR and Q people will disagree) but I don't believe that Motorola can build a decent cell phone anymore.

And no, that Sony Ericsson is a GSM phone.

Verizon has some good offerings right now. My girl has the LG Venus and loves it. It's a pretty slick phone and does everything you're asking for. The Voyager also will do WAY more than what you want, but in the right package you might decide to use those things.

The only thing I'd avoid right now is the Samsung stuff. On their slider phones, they're having some problems with quality control on batteries and antennas.