New T-Mobile phone

[fuzzyjay]

Is anybody on T-Mobile and happy with their phone?

My SDA has died after a year and after I left it out in the rain. I need to get a new phone tomorrow and I'm researching what to get.

I do some texting so a decent text entry system would be nice. The SDA has a good system but a terrible keyboard. I don't care about a camera, or MP3 players, or ringtones.

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[urbear]

Both my ex and I have a T-Mobile Dash (A.K.A. the HTC Excalibur), and we both love the thing (he's using it on T-Mobile, and I'm cheating and using it on Cingular). It's probably the best Windows Mobile Smartphone ever built, with both an excellent (and rugged) industrial design and the best signal reception I've ever seen from any phone.

Coincidentally, T-Mobile posted a free Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the Dash to their site today. I just installed it and I'm delighted; the voice command feature alone is providing hours of entertainment.

If you do get a Dash, it may be both application-locked and SIM-locked. It's not hard to unlock both.

Geek weakness

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

I was weak and got the Dash... on the theory that the more things you can play with the more fun it will be... and the generally-held opinion that it's a better phone than the SDA.