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User Submitted HTC Mogul PPC-6800 Smartphone (Sprint) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-05-16 HTC Mogul/PPC-6800 I have had my mogul for about a week now, and I like it for the most part. as usual, i'll start with the bad things. CONS: 1. my biggest complaint, and this is probably b/c i'm just switching from Nextel is that the speaker volume sucks. 2. Too many stinking blinking lights on the darn thing. Green, orange?? Blue??!! why do they have to blink?? it reminds me of those blinking coupon generators at the grocery store, trying to grab your attention..that, or an airplane. It'd be better just to have a green for full charge, yellow for medium and red for time to charge up. 3. short battery life. I am used to leaving my phone on overnight (i work midnight to eight) in the car, but i have to turn it off now. i've learned some tricks like making sure the accept beams is turned off, and that there are no programs running, and the wifi switch is turned off. 4. Another bad thing about the phone is that sometimes, you don't know, but it's calling someone. One night, I called in to work. Next thing i know, i look at my call history, and i called work three more times. OOps. Also, and i'm glad that there is text to voice text messaging for landlines; however, i saw that my text message that I sent to a certain phone number had been sent (twice, so two different messages). I looked up the phone number, and I apparently had text messaged the local chilis restaurant. I have them as a contact as I like ordering the curbside pickup, but it did weird me out to know that I was inadvertently texting them. I guess it dials while the phone is in my pocket, and I accidentally hit some keys or something. Good things: 1. this is my first smart device since i made the mistake and bought the i930. it totally blows that out of the water, and you can download things to the phone, and it's upgradeable as well. 2. my phone came with the newest upgrade, so i didn't have to upgrade yet. the guy that says he needed a bluetooth gps adapter is wrong. i know that sprint navigation/telenav states that the phone does, but that must have been before the software update. it will pinpoint exactly where i am, along with displaying a map, and even saying the street names. 3. i love being able to use my own mp3 files as ringtones. too bad the speaker sucks. all in all, i like the phone very much. I especially like the sprint navigation as I can find phone number a lot quicker than even using the internet. Like i said, i've had this phone a week, and it still does things that i haven't figured out yet. i recommend that anyone who buys this phone buy and download the photo contacts pro. it offers you so much more flexibility with the phone than the software that comes with the phone. 25 May 2008: One other thing that I would like to add, and this is for Johnny Law too. I went to Orlando, and I tried to use the resorts wifi access for my laptop, but the signal was way too weak. So, I called Sprint, asked them to change my data package to the phone as a modem to try my luck that way. I was scared b/c I had never used my phone as a modem, and I figured that it'd be extremely difficult. If you are using Vista, you just plug the phone in using the active sync usb cable that is provided with the phone, and on the phone, go to start/program/internet sharing/use usb, and at the bottom, hit connect. the laptop finished everything by adding a driver, and it connected flawlessly. My friend that I'm on vacation with, doesn't have any sprint software on her laptop, but it was just plug it in, and internet share on the phone, and she was on the internet too. I just thought that was pretty cool. I'm not trying to incite anything, and i'm not a microsoft/sprint fanboy either. *********23 July 08...Be advised that there is a new rom update for the mogul which changes it to windows mobile professional 6.1 and also adds Sprint TV. you can find this information at the HTC mogul update homepage. Date: 2008-05-01 So much potential brings disappointment The HTC Mogul has the potential to be a very useful phone/PDA. That being said, the HTC Mogul is full of disappointments. My biggest grievances are: 1) The poor battery life. --Even if you only use the device a few times a day, the battery will die within 24 hours at best. The device has a few lights on it that blink ALL the time whether the phone has something to tell you or not. When you plug the phone into charge, a very bright, blue light turns on making it difficult to sleep in the same room without turning the phone over. 2) Ability to act as a phone. --The HTC Mogul is far harder to use than a normal phone. Everything from adding a new contact to using the call waiting is more difficult. Dealing with automated call centers is especially hard because the keypad constantly disappears. --The audio quality is sub par. 3)Unfulfilled promises. --The HTC Mogul was sold to me with the idea that I could use Sprints impressive data connection to watch videos online. That would work if Sprint didn't use software to block watching videos on sites like YouTube. The only place that I have been able to watch videos is on Sprint TV which costs extra on top of a data connection. --The phone was also supposed to support GPS. In order to use GPS on the HTC Mogul, you first must buy an external GPS locater for at least $100. Do not buy this phone as a GPS unit alternative. 4) Phone as modem. --Setting up the HTC to work with your computer is a lengthy process. If you have multiple lap tops, they will all need to be configured to use the Mogul as a modem. Do not expect anything close to plug and play. Staying up to date on Facebook and Gmail is also fairly straight forward. Reading news stories works well on the phone although general research is limited by the lack of web support for mobile devices (An identical search on a lap top and on the HTC Mogul will fetch far more results on a lap top). This phone is on the right track to replacing the modern lap top but the iPhone is a much better choice right now. I would like to see advances by Microsoft, the Moguls OS, in extending battery life. If you buy this phone, be sure to place the provided screen cover on immediately. Date: 2008-04-27 Mogul Well I have own the Mogul for about 2 weeks. My only complaint is the battery life. You need to tune the phone with your specification in order to increase the battery life. Im going to buy the extended battery that way I can use the MP3 features and internet without worrying about charging the battery as much. Date: 2008-04-15 Works great with the newest update Had the same issues as most people at first with Bluetooth connectivity and no GPS but since my lastest update both have been working perfecly. Overal the Mogal s a great phone and PDA. I have had it for 6 months and it has been very reliable. The new oftware update added a task manager so that programs can be shut down instead of left running in the back ground. this helped my battery life dramatically. Date: 2008-04-09 Don't go there! I purchased this phone from US Cellular and thought it would be great. It is great if you don't really need a phone. It has all the problems I have now read about. Imagine a smartphone that has no voice recognition but needs voice tags like my old LG did. Who can record 250 voice tags. The Bluetooth is non exhistant. I love getting email and surfing the Internet on it but it's not worth having to pull over to answer the thing or dial it. Very inconvenient. I only gave it a two because it had Wi-Fi. Very disappointing from a premiere Taiwanese company. I may go back to the Motorola Q I tried before I tried this one. I am fortunate that US Cellular gives you 30 days to try a phone. I will be returning it tomorrow and getting back the Moto Q.
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