- Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 29 reviews Back to product review
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4.5 stars
"Don't listen to the Negative Reviews; they fulla it!"
Pros: Sleek Design, Voice Command for All Features on the Phone, 2x the Memory w.r.t. the Wing and Dash from T-Mobile
Cons: No Touch Screen, Considering T-Mobile is now getting to 3G it would have been a bonus to have that capability
Summary: People, it's time to get with the program and RTFM (Read the $%^&in Manual) for once. More than a handful of things listed by the others on this board as "Cons" are entirely not accurate.
Examples:
1. Can't Slide the phone shut to end a call (Clearly someone does not know where in WM6 to locate this setting. This is blatantly clear)
2. Call quality sucks OR I can bearly hear the person on the other end OR I cannot hear what the other person is saying, etc (Hello! Every figure to take the frikkin' plastic that wraps around the ear piece at the top of the phone? And what about may be raising the volume key?)
3. The Phone occasionally freezes or slows down to a crwaling halt (People, this is a Windows Mobile Phone and has a WINDOWS OS preloaded on it. Like on a PC that you may have at home or at work, you need to go to the TASK MANAGER and STOP ANY OR ALL services that you are not currently in use or needed for use. You need to clear the Cache too in the even that your slowness happens to be while you are online. Common principles that PC User should be aware of in this day and age.)
4. My Battery life absolutely sucks (Well did you even think that your phone Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Active Sync may be powered on. How about shutting them off when they are not in use, similar concept to the slowness issues above in #3).
5. Cannot turn off the XT9 typing feature (Folks, page 44-45 in the manual please)
If you don't have the phone then don't come on to the boards like this one at Phone Scoop and bash the daylights out of it. Trust me, the proof is in the pudding and these types of reviews become blatantly obvious to someone who has used the phone. This kind of behaviour is commonly seen from Reps outside of T-Mobile from other providers. In all honesty and for what it's worth, those idiots are just jealous that T-Mobile has got the mac daddy of "Fun Smartphones in the current market. That said, get this phone if you have not done so yet, no regrets!
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"My Battery life absolutely sucks (Well did you even think that your phone Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Active Sync may be powered on. How about shutting them off when they are not in use, similar concept to the slowness issues above in #3)."
None of those things are powered "on" and I am very careful about the power-saving settings being set properly. The battery life still "sucks".
Also, I understand the Windows OS on this phone very well. However, my phone still freezes for no apparent reason (and the T-Mobile tech support can't figure it out either) and in order to restart I need to remove the battery.
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