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User Submitted HTC Mogul PPC-6800 Smartphone (Sprint) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-12-17 good phone this phone is not as bad as people make it seem. the bluetooth does have problems, but has been improved upon since the latest htc update 2.17. the update has improved overall performace and processing speed. i love this phone, contratory to all the others Date: 2007-12-15 Awkward to use. Frustrating. . I waited for months for this product to be available. I even got it at a great price through a corporate discount--$299. There is little that I like about the phone. In fact, I can't think of one thing I like about the phone except perhaps the challenge of a puzzle that is difficult to decode. Phone: The keypad sucks. It is a touch device but with all the huge screen size the phone keypad is small. Also, you have to first turn on the display, it won't come up by pressing the talk button. Next, finding phone numbers is slow and awkward. The screen shuts itself off to fast. Or if you set the time to stay on longer, the phone loses power too quickly. Next the keypad disappears when the call starts, so that you have to either touch a very small "keypad" button to bring it back up or use a stylus. I found myself using the stylus so much that I wondered at the need for the keyboard. The speaker phone works fairly well. I use it a lot. I don't have a Bluetooth headset for this phone but consider it an essential accessory. Stylus; I like using Palm device stylus input. But on this phone, the on-screen keyboard is useless. It is awkward to key in a text message because their are two virtual keyboard--one for the alphabet, the second for special characters and the later had the space bar and delete keys. What where they thinking? These need to be on the alphabet virtual keyboard. What this means is you have to deploy the sliding keyboard, all the time. To send a text message. I found it awkward to find the appropriate contact. It is best to press the talk button and then slide the keyboard. Funny but you can't do it the opposite way if you want to bring up the call history. Otherwise you need to open and sort though all your contacts. Display. I have a noticeable burn in spot in the middle of the screen. I'm not happy about that. Even if I decided to keep the phone--unlikely at present, I'll have to address that. Wifi. SO far I have been unable to use the Wifi. The phone defaulted to Verizon's wireless network and I have been unable to switch that off and I want to use Wifi only. Also, it seems to always default to the slower dial up network access. I can't claim I fully understand this function yet. Also care must be taken to prevent the unit from automatically checking email because your battery won't last 1/2 a day if you do this. Battery. Better get at least one more battery or have several chargers and plan on leaving it plugged in nearly all the time. Battery life is the worst I've ever seen. The battery should last all day but does not. I'd trade a little thickening on the size for a battery that lasts more than a few hours. Windows OS: It sucks. I was unable to sync with Office 2003, and was only able to sync my task list with Outlook 2000. I suspect it will work fine with Outlook 2007, but I absolutely hate they way MS has screwed up what was a decent package. Basically, this alone has convinced me to return the device and buy a Palm PDA. I like the Palm task list--it makes sense while the MS task list has limitations that make it difficult to make a numbered list. Internet access: I found my attempts to scroll, very frustrating. As the page loaded and I tried to scroll down, it would jump to the top again. Basically I feel the slowness of the loading coupled with perhaps operator error on my part made it a frustrating experience that I don't want to repeat. Knowing how Verizon always screws up a good thing, I have to wonder how much better this phone would operate on Sprints faster cheaper network. The bottom line is I plan to return this phone and try the Voyager next or perhaps the newest Palm based Treo. Date: 2007-12-14 Best sprint PDA phone if you are above average tech-wise I have several friends who have tried out the Mogul and didn't care for it, mainly due to the fact they either like 1-handed dialing or are used to the Blackberry. Still, you can get robust email, text messaging, web surfing and a host of other add-ons if you are comfortable doing research and some trial-and-error. There are annoyances/idiosyncracies but they are easily overcome. Launching calls/apps due to the extra buttons? One tap to lock the phone (it's become a habit in just 2 days). Can't dial easily? Took just a few minutes to set up voice-dialing and I can actually dial okay using 1 hand on the touch screen. The iPhone and Blackberry have very real advantages over the Mogul but you get to pay about $50 more a month and hope someday they are opened up for add-ons. I love the Mogul because it is somewhat of a blank slate and I can tweak it heck and back to make it do what I want. Between ppcgeeks and sprintusers dot com, there's enough savvy users to get the help you need. Pros: Small but solid, nice screen, WM 6, nice keyboard, portrait/landscape views, fun to surf on. Can add 2 GB memory and probably 4 GB before too long (if not more). Can add tons of programs and customize almost any part of the interface you want. Basic camera is so-so but it has a flash (very neat) and I find that the sports mode takes good pictures and the video is above average. Addictive -- I'm constantly playing with it and finding new things to do. It's a pleasure to use. Cons: Limited memory -- you need to get good at turning off programs as it will keep IE, IM running after you close the screen. No idea why. More likely a WM-6 'feature' than Mogul-specific. Limited battery -- not horrible but not a strength. I keep a $15 car/wall combo charger with me and will probably end up keeping an extra charged battery as well. EVDO and GPS functionality pending -- supposedly coming Jan. 28. You need to learn the ins-and-outs of WM-6. What should take 2 screens, takes 5 and and the most useful settings are buried but it's from Microsoft so what do you expect? It's still better than Vista ;) As far as call quality, it's been better than my M610 or my wife's LG Fusic but we are in an area with a strong sprint signal -- if you are having call quality issues, it could be the connection and not the phone. Do you want an easy to use PDA out of the box? Get a blackberry or iPhone. Do you want a phone that within 6 months will be able to do about anything? Try out the Mogul. Date: 2007-12-11 Get the ROM update!!!! People are complaining about the short battery life and bluetooth problems. These are quickly fixed by downloading the latest update from the HTC website. Once I installed the ROM update the battery life for my phone seemed to almost double. I couldn't believe it. Also internal GPS is activated with it. I've been using telenav from my phone and I'm amazed at how cool it is. With the ROM update this is a seriously awesome phone. Date: 2007-11-29 Battery Life is Dismal - At Best This phone works well for me as a part-time working mom -- allows me to keep up on emails from work while I am with the kids. However, the battery life is EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING. With moderate email and phone use, this phone will run out of batteries by the end of the day even if it was charging the entire night before. Sometimes I worry that I am going to be stuck somewhere and the thing is going to be out of batteries when I need to make an emergency call. I only got the phone a few weeks ago....battery life only goes downhill from here. I am definitely going to have to buy an additional battery.
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