T-Mobile Dash Smartphone (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: T-Mobile Branded
Category: Wireless
List Price: $349.99
Buy New: $12.62
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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 3704
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Dash
UPC: 610214614353
EAN: 0610214613455
ASIN: B000NNZT1Y
Release Date: February 21, 2007
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| Features:
| • | Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system | | • | Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology built-in for a wire free experience | | • | Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile (e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes) & Windows Media Player Mobile (music and video files) | | • | 1.3 megapixel camera, Video camera and Windows Media Player | | • | Includes: Battery, AC Adapter, Hands-free Headset, USB Cable, and Case |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Exclusive to T-Mobile service, the quad-band T-Mobile Dash is everything you need to stay connected. Perfect for business or leisure applications, the Dash is a slim Windows Mobile Smartphone that's comfortable to hold and provides crystal-clear calling. Send, receive, and reply to your personal and business email easily with the built-in full QWERTY keyboard and the convenience of integrated Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile software. You can even browse the Web using the included Wi-Fi connectivity or built-in EDGE data support. Other highlights include myFaves compatibility, Bluetooth 2.0, a microSD memory card slot, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and more. 
The Dash is the the perfect mobile office and mobile entertainment device. See it in detail. You can also watch a product demo (requires Flash). | Design
Under the hood, the Dash features 23 MB of built-in flash memory, a memory card slot for more memory, and a speedy 200 MHz OMAP 850 processor. Up front, the large 2.4-inch 320 x 240 QVGA touch-screen supports over 65,000 colors, while the rear of the device houses the 1.3-megapixel camera. The design of the Dash is clean and uncluttered, with most of the buttons easily accessible with one hand. Just to the right side of the display you'll find convenient up/down keys for volume adjustment and handy keys for browser control. There's also a handy HTC JOGGR control pad with variable speed, drag, and hold functions that makes document viewing a pleasure. Meanwhile, call answer and end buttons surround a five-way toggle that allows you to navigate and control the Windows Mobile interface. A full QWERTY keyboard resides underneath the large display. As mentioned earlier, a microSD memory expansion card slot is provided, and USB/Bluetooth connectivity is included for convenient data transfers. Calling and PDA Features
The Dash's phone and PDA functions are designed to provide an integrated, seamless experience. The included Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone software with Direct Push technology gives you instant access to your emails, calendar, and contacts at anytime. That means wherever and whenever, you'll be connected. A single main screen summarizes all the important information you need to make it through the day. Here you'll get message notification, upcoming appointments, dialing functions, tasks, and more all in one spot. As a phone, the Dash features all the functionality folks expect from an advanced cell phone, including a handsfree speakerphone, polyphonic ringtones, a vibrate mode, and picture and ringer ID. Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile combines email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes into a single application that seamlessly integrates with the Dash's phone functions. Meanwhile, headsets, car kits and other wireless peripherals can also be paired with the unit via Bluetooth. Staying productive on the road is made possible by the Microsoft Office Mobile suite, which includes Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile. Meanwhile, the File Explorer application makes it easy to browse the files on your Dash. Like all T-Mobile phones, the Dash supports voicemail, caller ID, conference calling, call forwarding, call waiting, call hold, built-in paging, and access to T-Mobile's 411 service. This phone is fully compatible with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves. Messaging and Internet
Using T-Mobile's EDGE-powered Internet service, you can surf the Web with the bundled Internet Explorer application, or use MSN, Yahoo!, or AOL messenger services to stay in contact via instant messaging. Plus, the inclusion of Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) in the Dash allows you to surf the Web or check your email at blazing speeds when you're connected to a Wi-Fi network. With the purchase of T-Mobile Hotspot data service, you can get online at thousands of locations coast-to-coast. Lastly, robust SMS and MMS functionality is built into the Windows Mobile interface, too. One of the most important tools bundled with the Dash is Microsoft ActiveSync, which allows you to quickly synchronize your device's tasks, calendars, email, and contacts with your desktop. You also get Exchange ActiveSync, an application that lets you synchronize data with an Exchange server. Syncing can be done via USB or wirelessly via Bluetooth. Imaging and Entertainment
Another great feature of the Dash is that it supports Windows Media playback right out of the box. With Windows Media Player, you can play streaming and downloaded video and audio content in a variety of formats. You can also keep favorite tunes loaded on a memory card and listen to your music wherever you roam. As mentioned, the Dash can take 1.3-megapixel pictures, and while the camera is great for taking stills, it can also function as a camcorder, allowing you to capture video to the unit's memory. An integrated media application organizes your captured photos and videos. For gamers, the phone supports Java-based and Windows Mobile games. The Dash also sports an airplane mode feature, which allows the user to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games, or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight. Vital Statistics
The T-Mobile Dash weighs 4.23 ounces and measures 4.39 x 2.46 x 0.51 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of digital talk time, and up to 216 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...
 Avoid at all costs December 29, 2008
I have been very disappointed with this phone since I originally purchased it two years ago while renewing my contract for another two years. My contract ended in November and I have been nothing but disgusted with this phone since I have owned it from 2006.
Firstly, the volume control is so sensitive that holding the phone against my ear the volume would constantly go up or down just while talking. Essentially, you can't hold your phone to your ear and move your head.
Second problem was with reception. The speaker is a thin, vertical, skinny little aperture that you have to have very close to your ear to hear and its prone to collect alot of dust. The position of the phone also determined if people could hear me and I have an annoyingly loud voice at times and people on the other end of the phone still couldn't hear me clearly.
Next, the phone won't hold a consistent charge on the battery. I get about a day with very little talk time and mostly standby out of a full charge and that's with a new battery. This has happened on both of my Dash's. Yes! I had to replace my original phone when the screen inexplicably started freaking out and I couldn't see what was on the phone.
Also, the phone sometimes cuts out when I hold it up to my ear to talk. Other times, the phone gets several minutes into a conversation and then inexplicably hangs up and sometimes just powers off on its own. Again, this happened with both the old device and the new one and with two different batteries.
Finally, the phone will disconnect itself randomly from the Bluetooth in my car switching to the regular speaker instead and then reconnect but not reconnect the call causing the radio to come back on instead of the call which is still connected but now connected to the handset. That's especially annoying.
Honestly, I have owned several different phones, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are among the most trouble free ones that I have owned. I will never buy another T-Mobile based product. I'd just as soon buy an unlocked phone that is rated well or stick with one of the models T-Mobile carries which they don't have many issues with and that list is extremely small. Just ask someone with a crappy G1.
I have read the ratings on most of the phones that T-Mobile carries and the only really reliable ones appear to be from the makers I mentioned above or from Blackberry. I will say that the Sidekick is pretty reliable so that's why they get at least two stars even though the Dash deserves maybe one star. If you choose to buy this, good luck, I hope your experience is better. If you already own the phone you have my sympathy and/or pity.
 BAD PHONE December 23, 2008
When I bought this phone I paid over $200 for it. My first one had so many problems with freezing, shutting off on its own, and the battery life was horrible. I turned it in to get a new one only to have the same problems. The alarm goes off even if you turn it off, and if you change the time for it to go off it will go off at your previous time AND your new one, making for a rude wake up call on the weekend mornings. No ring tone choices, the keys are so small it is easy to mispell words counfusing the people you send messages to. Also, the phone will take FOREVER to load up when you turn it on, you will absolutly dread having to turn it off. Also, the phone sends your messges to the wrong person often, this causes many relationship problems! It is very frustrating to call people from your contact list because you have to be in a certain screen to actually make the call. Bottom line DON'T BUY THIS PHONE!!! Get one that actually works!
Beware of this phone and the company HTC December 4, 2008
Beware of the DASH. It is a nice looking phone but it is as fragile as a feather is. I dropped my phone once from the bed to the carpet and the screen cracked. What's worse is the company knows that this is an issue but wont replace nor recall the phone. Lastly, the rebate for the phone is 130.00 and then you will receive a refurbished piece of fragile junk.
Jimmy cracked screen, and they don't care! November 27, 2008
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Had the Dash for a year and a half. Battery began to die after 6 months, standby time was dismal. Thought I was in a bottomless pit of phone pergatory until the dredded "cracked screen." OMG, I thought it only happened to others, not me. What was a guy to do? I reverted to my old stand-by, my old pal, the Motorola Razr. It never let me down. As for the Dash, she is buried at the bottom of my sock drawer. Bless the dead and if you buy the Dash, be prepared for a disfunctional relationshp that will come to a complete and utter end when you least expect it. You may try to reboot, but in the end all will fail. So stay clear of this device and read the reviews; find out what really works & make an informed purchase. At the present, I am in the market for a new phone relationship, one based on quality, speed, reliability, and commitment. Farewell, Dash, you were a problem from the start.
Not enamored by this thing, about to go back to Palm Treo November 9, 2008
The idea of going back to a Treo probably sounds strange, but that's about where I am today.
I've survived this phone for 9 months now, and the only thing I like about it is that it allows me to link to Microsoft Exchange so I can get my e-mail and like to my contacts from my office. Maybe it's the operating system, Windows Mobile, as I've already abandoned a Samsung 730i a couple of years back. i think a PDA or even just a cell phone, should be intuitive in operation. This one isn't. To compound the problem, it self dials when you hit a button while it sits in your pocket or on the seat next to you when something touches it.
It's been reliable, although frozen up occasionally. When I went back to the Palm just to test it, I was amazed how easy its obsolete technology works.
The screen is too small to visualize many things, the t-mobile network too slow in a dense urban county to provide a positive experience on the web. Would be nice if the buttons were easy to select - many other phones beat it in that respect. The keys just aren't that easy to find and press, compared to others.
Otherwise, looks an feels good.
I'm looking for another solution.
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