T-Mobile MDA Cell phone

T-Mobile MDA Cell phone Ben Freedman: Hi there and welcome to NEO-FIGHT.TV, the technology reviews with two points of view. My name is Ben Freedman. Tiffany Young: And I’m Tiffany Young and today is Thursday, July 20th. And today’s spot light, we’re to be talking about the new T-Mobile MDA PDA phone which is very much like the Sprint PPC 6700 Ben Freedman: It’s a Windows Mobile Phone Tiffany Young: Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you. Windows Mobile Phone, and it’s similar in design it’s a little bit smaller and a little bit more compact it has the same slide-out keypad on the side which then makes your picture convert form landscape, portrait to landscape. Ben Freedman: There you go. Tiffany Young: Thank you. Wait. There we go. So yeah, it switches it from portrait to landscape. I’ve been using a PPC 6700, that Sprint phone. Ben Freedman: Yeah Tiffany Young: For quite a while and I have yet to use that keypad Ben Freedman: You’re not a slider kind of person? Tiffany Young: No, I just haven’t used it. Maybe if I did more text messaging, that would be something I would use it for but I just don’t use it. I still think of these phones have ways to go technology-wise. I mean they’re cool because they do have Windows-based applications. You can sync it with Outlook. This particular phone, the network that this ones on is not very fast. Ben Freedman: No, it’s this T-Mobile is not as fast as the Sprint. Tiffany Young: Right Ben Freedman: But let me tell you, what I like about this phone over the Sprint phone is that the Sprint phone has that kinky antenna that sticks up. Tiffany Young: Yeah that’s right Ben Freedman: I like this because there’s no antenna so there’s a positive of this and it’s probably the first PDA phone that is actually a decent size. I used to have the Sprint 6600 and that thing is huge. Tiffany Young: Is that like the Trio? Ben Freedman: It’s right before the Trio and I think this is even smaller than the Trio. Tiffany Young: It is smaller than the Trio. Ben Freedman: But its got a big screen. And again, the Trio has the keyboard that’s always out where as this one has this screen in portrait and again you can open it Tiffany Young: And it’s WiFi Ben Freedman: I tell you, I do use the keyboard but— Tiffany Young: You do? Ben Freedman: I do use the keyboard when you know I do instant messenger and sending out e-mails and that stuff. But the problem is this keyboard even though its backlit, it’s freshly impossible to see at night Tiffany Young: See now I think you can see it, me I mean you could see it not well that you can see it Ben Freedman: I have trouble I was looking at this and it was dark out side and I don’t know what it is about the backlighting it’s too dim or the buttons are just to shiny Tiffany Young: Now you see that only light-up the Q, S, T, basically look at the keyboards Ben Freedman: As we like call them Tiffany Young: No. What I’m trying to say is that— Ben Freedman: It doesn’t light-up the whole key. Tiffany Young: It doesn’t light up all the letters Ben Freedman: Right, right. Tiffany Young: It only lights up some of the letters Ben Freedman: You know what I’d like too see— Tiffany Young: The ones that I was just saying out loud. Ben Freedman: Here’s what I would like to see, I think they should put a small LED like right here in the crack on the bottom Tiffany Young: Right Ben Freedman: And that shines from the top down like a mini flashlight Tiffany Young: That would be a good idea Ben Freedman: Rather than try to backlight these keys because I don’t know what it was but I just couldn’t see them. The other thing about this is it’s not very fast. Its only got, I think is a 200 Megahertz processor. Tiffany Young: It’s slow. Ben Freedman: It’s slower than your phone. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: And I found that video, I tried to play some video back on it. Tiffany Young: Good luck. Ben Freedman: Kind of jerky. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: Kinda jerky on here. Tiffany Young: It does take Mini SD. Ben Freedman: Mini SD not SD. Tiffany Young: Mini SD. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: Mini SD, which I think you can EBAY a Mini SD a 2 gig in eBay for I think a $150 Ben Freedman: Which is fantastic because of course I have a half a dozen SD cards because up until you know yesterday that was the current standing. Tiffany Young: Like an hour ago or something Ben Freedman: Yeah, but now because it’s gone to a clock, now it’s all Mini SD and so I’ll buy all those now come out with Micro SD Tiffany Young: Right Ben Freedman: And after that you’ll need to buy your Nano SD Tiffany Young: Right, what do we do? Ben Freedman: Why can’t does it really to be that small. I would much rather this had a regular SD card slot. Tiffany Young: And not only that, I’m not sure about this one; I need to check specifications for this specific one. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: What would I recommend if you’re gonna buy this phone, don’t buy a 2-gig Mini SD until you’re absolutely certain that this is compatible with a 2-gig Mini SD. Ben Freedman: Because there’s a maximum limit on how much— Tiffany Young: There’s a maximum limit on how much these, these, these phones—you know the memory or the RAM or whatever. Ben Freedman: So buy a 2-gig Mini SD card that you’ll stick it in there and it will— Tiffany Young: You have one usable. Ben Freedman: You’ll only get 1-gig of usable space even if you bought a 2-gig card. Tiffany Young: Exactly. So you have an extra gig of wasted space. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: And then of course, the gig that Nano SD comes out. Ben Freedman: The tiny SD card. Tiffany Young: Maybe you could toss in the garbage and recycle all together. Ben Freedman: It has Bluetooth and it has Wi-Fi so it’s very easy to connect to anything. You know if you have WIFI you connect to your home network, you’re not using your you know your slowish T-Mobile network when you’re on here or at home and it has Bluetooth. I had no problem pairing with microphones and all that stuff. So my only real problem with it was you know— First of all you’ve gotta want this format. I don’t know, if you don’t want this- Tiffany Young: Exactly it’s a style preference almost like a color of shirt that you wear. Ben Freedman: Right, so if you still want the PDA, and it’s still is really a PDA first and then a phone kinda style thing. Tiffany Young: And it’s the smallest one that I’ve seen and I’m definitely a big fan of Windows-based PDA’s. Ben Freedman: Right Tiffany Young: And if, you know this was just missing a couple of elements that mine doesn’t have but the size is great. I think that were gonna continue to see a trend I hope towards Window-based PDA’s that are this size, you know this size or a little bit smaller. Ben Freedman: So do you agree with me that this is a, an evolutionary step forward but probably not the Holy Grail? Tiffany Young: It’s still the ones forward two steps back and you were lack in speed and we’re lacking in you know light ability for those letters. Ben Freedman: Well you have no problem. I guess it’s my crummy character recognition I don’t know I just couldn’t see it Tiffany Young: So, anyway I think that their on the right path but we’re not quite there yet and what is about the is the cost of— Ben Freedman: Well it depends on what contract you buy of course. I think it’s like $400. Tiffany Young: By itself. Right. Ben Freedman: Or $300 if you want the one year or $200 if you want the two year contract so. Tiffany Young: Is it stand alone? Isn't close to four as the stand alone unit? Ben Freedman: Yeah some on four. Tiffany Young: Yeah Ben Freedman: Buy on ebay Tiffany Young: So if we get on the force still and I still don’t think with that one or quite yet and I have a feeling there’s going to be some bugs that are gonna be worked on this one just like the PPC Sprint 6700 Windows-based Mobile Phone as well. Ben Freedman: Right, so I like it as a PDA again I don’t think it’s the holy grail but I have nothing against it, I give it a three out of five. It could be a bit faster; it could have a better backlighting. But all in all it does kind of won its promises, three out of five for me. Tiffany Young: You think it does what it promises? Ben Freedman: I do Tiffany Young: Yeah Ben Freedman: Yeah Tiffany Young: Okay, yeah I’ll go with that, I think I does what it promises as well it’ just not as good as it could be, right? Ben Freedman: Right Tiffany Young: So I’m gonna give this a four out of five. I think that it is— Ben Freedman: Four out of five? You’re going to give more than me? Tiffany Young: I’m going to give it more than you just because I— remember where we talked about shirt color? Ben Freedman: Yeah Tiffany Young: Shirt color? I do prefer the style. I don’t use touch tone keypad thing but Windows Mobile is very important to me and therefore it makes it the product that I would foregoes some other things that doesn’t have to have windows based. Ben Freedman: Because you like Windows Mobile. So four out of five for Tiffany, three out of five for me, that is seven out of ten for the T-Mobile MDA PDA Phone, and it’s all the time we have for NEO-FIGHT .TV today. But if you got 30 more seconds, take a look at this. The last few years has seen a proliferation of hand-held devices from Cell Phones to PDA to IPODS, yet our clothing has not kept up with this technological advancement until now. 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