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ye110wbeard
I'm Sean - I'm a PC - and I'm ENERGIZED

What's everybody out there running for a Smartphone?

I had some rather "generous angels" drop a Palm Treo 750w on my lap for Christmas... LOVE THIS THING!

Plays a mean game of solitaire too... Smiley

AdamBomb

ooh, this is a timely thread. My SDA is falling apart and I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd like to get an HTC S710. It's not currently offered by my carrier, T-Mobile, but they are doing a deal on the t-mobile Shadow - anyone played with one of those and have feedback on it?

Another generous angel gave my wife a Palm Treo 750 to my wife for Christmas (that angel being me). She really loves hers too. Loudest ring I've ever heard on a mobile phone, which is pretty much the killer feature for her phone, as far as I'm concerned. No more "I didn't hear it ringing at the bottom of my purse buried shoved under the seat of the car with the stereo cranked up."

extreme

I have the HTC TyTN (similar to the AT&T Tilt) running windows mobile 6. It's ok, but it's bigger than I'd like and I miss being able to actually push the number keys to dial out instead of messing with the touchpad. I'd like to get one of the HTC touches, but I don't want to drop $500+. I'm considering the Pantech Duo instead. Anyone like or dislike this phone?

ye110wbeard
I'm Sean - I'm a PC - and I'm ENERGIZED

One of our suppliers had the TYTN. He loved the phone except for the battery life. HSDPA seems to be the magic killer on these units. I'm not sure who's at fault in this one. Turning off 3G/HSDPA on my phone on Fido makes it run faster.

A really nice person at Microsoft Canada pointed out the voice control on the 6. Oh this is sweet. Now I just need to squeeze out $50 for some voice recognition software so I can "Twitter without typing"... Smiley

Unfortunately my little Geo Tracker is WAY too noisy inside and ruins the full experience on "voice control".

Not the phone's fault... Mine... Smiley

No my "Generous Angels" were the coolest bunch of people at Microsoft Canada. The Community Evangelists. I guess they must have heard I was down on my luck and must be enjoy their Friday Funnies.

That and maybe to get me to learn a lesson about data plans. 555 emails in one day. OUCH!

Cheers all

Sean
"Highway to PowersHell"
100+ hits to the damn song and still counting... Oh well... Smiley

MartySmith

In reply to ye110wbeard

#Jan 19th, 2008 @ 8:13 AM

You should buy a Jawbone headset. It does real noise-canceling. You'll be able to do voice even if there's a ton of background. There used to be a video on the site showing a guy on the phone beside a person using a gas-powered weed-eater. My experience has been equal to what they do on the video.

richfrombechtle
What?

I'm over in teh UK and I've got an HTC Diamond..this thing freakin rocks! It runs WinMo 6.1 with the HTC Touch-Flo interface and is a joy to use..the camera is great, office runs nice and fast, it's light..it's near perfect.

chaaker
Chris Haaker

Try the Nokia e71. I am testing it along with the Palm Treo Pro and the iPhone and it is in the lead!! Nice hardware, S60 fp2 and other goodies as well as EAS. Feels great in your hand.

Studioart
Wild like a horse.

Nokia E50 (I would like to have Nokia E51 with WiFi) and Sony Erricson P1i (nice phone).
iPhone Rules.

Rickster.CDN

Motorola Q9H up here in Canada. unfortunately it's WINMo 6 instead of 6.1 - like SOME OTHER GUYS on the team have.

Sad

Rick