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2.0 stars
"Great PDA, Tragic Phone"
Pros: PDA great, standard headphone jack, internet handling, WIFI rocks, works really well in Europe
Cons: Worst call handling, battle between software and hardware to recognize cell signal
Summary: PDA's are great. Phone PDA's will one day be so as well, but this isn't.
As a long time convergence guy, I've gotten used to phones that crash. This one does too - nothing special.
But this phone is not a phone. Whenever this phone leaves a coverage area, which is common with T-mobile and its bad coverage, and then re-enters a coverage area you cannot make or receive a call despite the fact you've regained signal. It's amazing. The phone hardware recognizes it has regained a signal (the little green light flashes), but something in the software tells it that it doesn't have a signal and the software dominates. It is the most incredibly frustrating thing and leads to all sorts of ridiculous situations. The phone will ring, but it doesn't believe it has signal so it won't let you answer. It will just keep ringing. Or, when you've finally turned off the phone and turned it back on to force it to recognize signal, it will ring (remembering some long lost phone call), stop, and let you know you have both missed a call and have a voice message. I'd like to blame Microsoft because this happened to me with a Siemens PDA phone that ran Windows as well, but it could be HP.
The only way this phone will work for you is if you never lose signal. This is true in Europe where T-Mobile/Deusche Telecom rules. I love the phone when I?m in Europe. Otherwise, wait for the next wifi phone because the wifi does rock and quickly becomes indispensable.Updated
I have previously reviewed this phone and said it was tragic. It dropped signal and wouldn't recover even if signal was strong. I soft reset all the time. The only thing that worked was the WiFi (I never use bluetooth because it has never worked on any device I've ever used).
I've had the ROB update available from T-Mobile & HP for 1 week and the phone has become a wonder. It is constantly aware of signal strength, no longer drops calls, in other words works as a phone. I'm psyched! If you have this phone and hate it, get the ROM update now!
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