You can add to this with microSD cards, and the slot is under the battery cover on the left-hand side. You can hot-swap cards without powering the S down. The device is quad-band, so international travel should not be a problem, and Wi-Fi is built in as well as Bluetooth. We had no trouble connecting to our own network and then surfing the Internet. The rest of us can use its built-in software to pick up POP3 email.
The mobile email and document management scenario falls down somewhat when it comes to documents, though. But you can only read them -- for serious working on the move you really need to be able to edit existing and create new documents and at least Word or Excel documents , and that is not possible here.
As mentioned earlier, there is no room on the edges for buttons. You would usually expect to find a volume rocker on the edges of any handset, but HTC has replaced this with a bizarre and idiosyncratic feature called the 'JOGGR'. This is a touch-sensitive strip that sits down the right edge of the screen. You can set it up in different modes, depending on whether you want it to just be a volume controller or to be a scroller, too. You can also use its upper and lower sections as a back button and to start the email software.
We've never found a device with touch-sensitive buttons we can use effectively, and the S is no different. Not only did it fail to respond to our touches as often as it recognised them, we often hit it accidentally when picking the S up off the table.
There is a 1. It has no flash, though there is a self-portrait mirror. With no side button to launch it or take shots, you have to start it running from the applications list, which is not a huge problem.
It produces shots of average quality. Performance Making calls was never a problem -- volume was loud and call quality clear and sharp. Since the Motorola Q was the only landscape MS Smartphone until this month, you'll find that some apps, mostly games, don't support it.
But that should change quickly now that we have 3 hot landscape models on the market. The Dash makes a good portable music player using the standard Windows Media Player 10 Mobile or your favorite 3rd party application. Sound quality is good through the included Merry Electronics brand stereo headphones with inline mic.
The bad news is that the Dash, like most recent HTC phones, uses a proprietary audio connector rather than a standard 2. But at least you get the stereo headset in the box: Cingular left that out of the Samsung BlackJack box. The Merry headset included with most recent HTC devices , sounds pretty good with decent bass and no shrillness on the top end.
We were pleased with the Dash's audio quality when using the included headphones. The phone supports Bluetooth stereo headsets and headphones, so we tested it with Plantronics Pulsar stereo Bluetooth headset profile and it worked well. The Dash has Bluetooth 2. You can turn off that annoying new network found" notification if you wish, and set the WiFi radio to automatically turn off if not connected for a specified period of time. HTC's Com Manager shows access points in range and indicates whether they use encryption and their signal strength.
Range is good for a device this small and we managed 45 feet from our And you may have to tell IE not to automatically detect network settings if it doesn't manage to connect when switching to or from WiFi. We generally haven't been fans of HTC's cameras which lagged behind the feature phone competition. The Cingular 's 2MP camera is an exception and it takes quite good photos.
The Dash takes photos that are better than last year's and the year before that HTC camera phones such as the SDA and MDA, but the photos still aren't as good as those taken by the better 1. But they're not horrid either, so don't panic. Colors are decent, with an occasional purple bias see the black Chevy SSR which acquired Zune -like secondary color highlights with the help of the Dash. Bright sunlight leads to whiting out see the pool photo below but under medium indoor or outdoor light, the camera does pretty well.
It handles low light better than many Nokia camera phones, even the high end ones. The 1. It has four quality settings, a time stamp option, four color effects and 5 white balance settings including auto. You can take video in up to x and MMS videos. We've been quite pleased with the Dash and HTC S's battery life, which lasts about 2 to 3 days of use without Direct Push email which eats up any Windows Mobile device's battery.
The mAh Lithium Ion is supposed to be good for up to 5 hours talk time and we got about 4. Lets face it, if you only talk on the phone and don't use the PDA features, you probably didn't need a smartphone anyway. We used the phone surfing the web on EDGE for 45 minutes per day, talked on the phone 20 minutes per day, did several PIM lookups each day, reviewed a Word and an Excel document, watched a 6 minute short video stored on a MicroSD card, surfed with WiFi 20 minutes per day, checked email once every 30 minutes 9am -6pm and listened to MP3s for an hour per day.
The Dash lasted us 3 days. If you use Direct Push and set the phone to notify you of each new email, expect 2 days on a charge. By PDA and smartphone standards, that's good. If you use the phone less perhaps you don't check email frequently and surf the web for 30 minutes or less per day then you might manage 4 days on a charge. That's better than the Samsung BlackJack, though the BlackJack does even things about a bit by providing a second battery and spare battery charger.
It's most definitely better than the Motorola Q. It's sexy, it's slim and light. The display is phenomenal, multimedia is good by MS Smartphone standards that means video playback is bearable and as usual audio is quite good and the phone offers a good mix of business practicality with entertainment value unlike most BlackBerry phones.
We really like the Dash's rubberized coating and novel good looks, not to mention the keyboard which had us typing quickly and accurately in no time.
Which is better? That depends on whether you are or would like to be a T-Mobile customer. Pro: Great design: slim, light and sexy.
The rubber coating feels good and helps keep the phone safe. Paste - paste text in the Send Box a. Smileys - contains 3 sub menus 3 different smileys b. Personal - contains 5 sub menus c. Fraction - contains 5 sub menus d. Contact - contact name and number will be pasted e. Options b. Edit Blacklist - edit the blacklist numbers i.
Default Tone - set default sms tone j. Add Contact - add a new contact for your chat sms 2. Edit Chat - edit focused chat window a. LastRcvd - paste last received text to the send input box b. LastSent - paste last sent text to the send input box c. Mark Start - mark the starting point of the chat window to be editted d. Mark End - mark the ending point of the chat window to be editted.
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