HP iPaq 510 Voice Messenger

Pros: Voice Command was cool

Cons: Dropped Wi-Fi and Cell calls, WM6 Sucks

Summary: Phone would not stay connected to Wi-Fi network, even when it was 15 feet from the wireless router on a clear channel. Would not automatically connect when it came in range. Lost the Wi-Fi network password several times, forcing me to go through setup again. Occasionally dropped calls on the cell network at home, where our other phones do not have any problems.

The phone was great looking, but the keys were rounded in the center and slick, so my fingers were constantly slipping off and hitting adjacent keys. The Home, Back and navigation keys were small and too close to other keys. Wading through the WM6 menus and making a selection was difficult. I frequently went off on tangents and had to go Home and start over.

And don't even get me started about Windows Mobile 6. You would think after six tries MS would get it right. But the O/S was often slow and would occasionally freeze. Sometimes it would unfreeze, execute all of the pending keystrokes at once and leave me in an unexepected place. Other times it would stay in la la land, and I would have to shut the phone off to reboot it.

If WM6 won't run correctly on a top of the line phone from a PC maker, you know it sucks.

Listen HP and MS, we need simple, reliable, great sounding phones that work on both Wi-Fi and cell networks. We don't want poorly designed hardware, nor overly complex software that works inconsistently and then crashes. If it doesn't work right, don't ship it! You wasted three days of my life. Good luck convincing me to buy something else from you in the future.