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User Submitted HTC Mogul PPC-6800 Smartphone (Sprint) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-01-26 Battery Life Tweaks Turn off WiFi when not in use. Also, go to START|SETTINGS|CONNECTIONS|BEAM and deselect "Receive all incoming beams." You'll see a dramatic increase in battery life! Date: 2008-01-18 HTC Mogul PPC-6800 Smartphone (Sprint) The phone is really cool and easy to use. The touch screen features are great. I love the windows operating system on it so you feel like you already know what you are doing. I haven't found anything wrong with it yet. Great Buy!! Date: 2008-01-12 A big improvement over the 6700, but far from perfect I have a Mogul with Qwest, which rents tower time from Sprint. I previously had a PPC-6700, which was great as a computer and internet device but an absolutely *horrid* phone. I don't go into the details, but it was something I shouldn't have put up with as long as I did. After something else went wrong with it, I called Qwest to see about downgrading to something else- I needed a functional phone, and I could always go online via my PDA through a BT-equipped phone. I had *no* desire to upgrade to the Mogul, especially if it would cost me money. Luckily for me, Qwest pulled some trick, made it go off as an insurance claim, and got me the Mogul as a replacement. I was extremely sceptical, considering the problems I had with the 6700... But so far, so good. The problems I had with the 6700 are gone, and I now have a good phone as well as a great pocket computer. I think WM phones are hit and miss with people. I'm a Mac and Linux user at work and home, but with what is available now I still think that CE devices are the best around, as far as capabilities are concerned. I could get an iPhone, but then lose a ton of the functionality I rely on with my Mogul. A lot of folks should get something else- a Blackberry, a non-HTC WM Smartphone, or something completely different. A shame that Spring/Qwest doesn't have the nicer Nokia models. I use a Mac, but for me it's irrelevant- I don't use do any sort of syncing. I don't think I'm an average user. I install apps via .CAB download on the device, SSH, (S)FTP, VNC, wget, use CE's DOSish CMD, view webpages as if on a desktop with Opera, write scripts to automate things, run various *nix ports, and prototype new apps all on the device itself. Unlike Docs2Go on my older PalmOS devices, I can open and edit Office docs with Mobile Office and in the Picsel Browser. I read a book a week using uBook, downloading the files directly to the device, with no "real" computer as a go-between. That's the kind of power WM, and regular WinCE even more so, affords me, the kind of power that most people don't want or need. When I go out of town, I can leave the MacBook Pro at home, which is a huge boon for me. Bottom line: This might not be the right phone for you, but I love it. It has a few flaws, but no showstoppers. It is somewhat unexpectedly a big improvement over the 6700 in a thousand small ways, and folks with one who want to retain that kind of device, but without the suckage, might find the upgrade worthwhile, especially if you can get cheap. Folks more focused on texting or email would likely be better served with a simpler device. Date: 2007-12-31 Powerful, practical & amazing this is an amazing phone. firstly, the looks rugged and at the same time professional, but feels seemingly Slippy to the touch. Therefore you might want to get a case, or if may one day slip off your hand. It is also amazingly smaller than what one could imagine; we figure about the length of a credit card and about an inch longer. the design also features buttons about everywhere (but the front side). Good shortcuts to get where you want to fast, with no need of using the touchscreen (unlike other PDA phones). The five-directional thumb pad looks unpromising, but, thruthfully, it is wonderful in performance. One's thumb just fits on it, and one needs just pressure in the desired direction with no need to move the thumb to press it. The full qwerty keypad is a little small (what did you expect from a small phone?) and the feedback is GOOD. I wonder what degree of feedback other critics need. Entering info in this device can't be any easier. apart from the qwerty keypad and onscreen keyboard, HTC software allows you to write on the screen and it's converted to text, as you'll do on a tablet PC. handwriting recognition is good too. Navigation on this device can't be any easier. Curiously I found out that the most used commands on this phone have 4 different ways to lunch, and some have 3, to 1. So you can't get stuck. A perfect tool: I mean-this PDA allows you to even turnoff its phone capability in 2 Clicks. So you will use it as a PDA only. the camera is Great. I mean, who will criticize a 2.0 megapixel camera with flash and camcorder on a PDA? It the camera program looks sexy and awsome. It's like you have an actual $250 camera with a BIG touch screen. connection is great and it even has a "spot" at the back for in car connection, in case reception is low. Internet connection is also superb, and it connects with relative ease to wi-fi networks around - in preference to sprint network where available. wi -fi seems to be way faster than sprint's 3-G network. A few setbacks: sound in a call is perfect, but on a music or video, it seems jazzy (for critical listeners. If not, no problem) esp. with the earphones. It does not have a great deal of cooool alerts and ringtones. But this is like no problem since getting free (some) from installed windows mobile is relatively easy. Overall, this phone is, not just great, good, practical, but AMAZING. It will amaze you each time you use it; simple but yet highly punctuated with functionalities and capabilities. Whether you just want to call, or you want to manage business, it is perfectly suitable. Date: 2007-12-29 A beautiful disappointment I did about 2 months of research before buying this phone so save the criticism that I'm not informed about the phone. I'm a techie. I love to understand, tweak, and maximize each phone I own. This phone is great if you want a computer in your pocket. It can do everything your laptop can do. It's a powerful smartphone, no doubt about that. Here's my list of pros and cons. PRO: It's not THAT big. Some say it's too big. It's a freakin' computer in your pocket, of course it's bigger than most phones. It's got a full keyboard with nice sized keys that anyone could type on, even with fat fingers. CON: It's not that easy. The biggest problem with this phone is the operating system. It takes way too many steps to do simple things on this phone. If you want to be able to do any and everything then you can, it just takes time to execute. Palm is stuck in the dark ages with their operating system but I still use it b/c at least it's a stable OS and at least it's simple. Windows Mobile 5.0 is lame. It's just too much work. Again, if you want to do everything under the sun with a phone then you can, it just takes you a lot longer on this phone. PRO: Nice screen! This screen is big! I loved looking at pictures and videos on this screen. The camera, for a phone is really nice. CON: Keyboard backlight is totally unreliable. It has a sensor that is supposed to turn on the backlight for the keyboard when the lighting is low. The keyboard backlight is awesome! The problem is that it doesn't come on when you need it to unless you hold your hand over the sensor for about 45 seconds. It can't be that hard HTC. Make it so it works or don't include it on the phone. Just another SMALL thing that made me frustrated with this phone. PRO: Buttons! There are no less than FIVE programmable hard buttons on this phone that you can make open whatever program you want them to open. This phone is like a computer in that it's VERY customizable. If you like to get into the guts of a phone and make it the way you want it to be instead of the way it was shipped to you then you can make all sorts of changes to these buttons. CON: Simple stuff...when someone calls you and you want to answer the phone, when you want to save a phone number right after a phone call ends, when you want to enter text at a stop light (yeah, I know it's a bad idea), when you want to do little stuff, it's difficult sometimes. PRO: HACKS!! You can make this phone's screen look like whatever you want it to! Want an iPHone screen...you can have it. Want to have the a totally different HTC home screen? You can have it. Just go to www.sprintmogul.net and join the site and there are a ton of downloads there for you. PRO: I've compiled all of the best programs and hacks for this phone. I don't sell the programs, but I do sell the instructions on how to customize the programs and I do include the programs if you send me a note to mogulfiles@gmail.com and send $6 to me via PayPal. I also created a few videos on YouTube to teach folks how to make those changes to their Moguls...just search for my videos. My YouTube name is "andytbusiness" I sold this phone on eBay b/c it didn't meet my needs but some folks love it. Just do your homework 1st.
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