T-Mobile Dash 3G by HTC

Yes indeed, a smartphone with 3G on T-Mobile US! The Dash 3G, otherwise known by its code name, HTC Snap (a name that Sprint stuck with for their HTC Snap), is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition smartphone. It has a landscape QVGA non-touchscreen display and a great QWERTY keyboard (we like it best among all the HTC Snap/Ozone variants). Likewise we like the trackball quite well and BlackBerry converts will feel at home.

The Dash 3G offers quite a bit more than the original Dash, including a much faster 528MHz Qualcomm CPU, 256 megs of RAM and flash storage, a GPS that works with Telenav (a $10/month subscription navigation service offered through T-Mobile) as well as Google Maps and Windows Live Search. It has a meager 2 megapixel camera, WiFi and Bluetooth with A2DP Bluetooth stereo support.

Other goodies include HTC’s YouTube player, plenty of IM clients (AIM, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, MySpace IM and Yahoo) and Microsoft’s Office Mobile suite.

If you’re a T-Mobile G1 user who’s tired of the G1’s bulk and poor battery life, the Dash 3G will seem like a thin slice of heaven. It’s extremely thin, small overall and fits in a pocket. The battery life is surprisingly good for a 3G HSDPA phone and ours easily lasted 3 days on a charge with moderate use. MS Direct Push email will eat more battery, so expect more like 1.5 days if you use push email. That’s obviously quite a bit better than the G1’s battery life, but you do forego the touch screen.

The Dash 3G is thin. That’s the volume rocker on the smartphone’s left side, and that’s the only side control.

Above: the Sprint HTC Snap and the Dash 3G.

The Dash 3G went on sale mid-July 2009, and the price seems a bit high at $169 with a 2 year contract. The retail price is quite reasonable at $349, however. If you want a data plan, the phone is available only with T-Mobile’s 3G Smartphone Unlimited data plan ($25/month with no SMS/MMS and $35/month with unlimited messages), just like the G1. A data plan isn’t required though, for those of you who want to save money and use WiFi for data.

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T-Mobile G1 – Google Android Phone Details

The details about long awaited HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1, the Google Android powered phone is finally revealed. It has a 3-inch touch screen along with QWERTY keypad and Internet navigation buttons. The home screen of the phone does look like an iPhone screen. One of its main features is multitasking, now you can receive your messages even when you are talking on your phone.

Drag and Drop can be performed by swiping the touch screen. It will come with Google Maps Street view and will have a compass mode where the screen will move with the user. It will also have a 3.1 MP camera and will have GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WiFi /HSDPA connectivity. There will be an Android market, an application store for the Android phones from where applications can be downloaded. Amazon’s mp3 store will be preloaded on every G1 phone thus allowing the download of millions of tracks.

The phone will have a browser called WebKit that uses the same base technology as Google Chrome and will be called Chrome Lite. The phone will allow for a robust gmail experience and faster email search and integration with Google Talk. It will comes with a 1GB microSD card and will support upto 8GB. It will have a talk time of 5 hours and standby time of 130 hours.

The phone will be available through T-Mobile in US on October 22 for a price of $179 with a two year contract. UK users will get it on early November while Germany, Austria, Czech and Netherland can expect in first quarter of 2009. So now move over Symbian, Windows Mobile cause Android is here

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T-Mobile Dash 3G appears on T-MO website

As expected, T-Mobile already launched the new HTC windows Mobile device, the new T-Mobile Dash 3G.

The Dash 3G features Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition and a full-QWERTY keyboard to send messages and navigate the operating system quickly. Users can connect to the web with 3G data connectivity, and WiFi is on-board for high-speed local network connections. The handset also features Microsoft Exchange support, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 2 megapixel camera.

The T-Mobile Dash 3G is available for $169.99 after a two-year customer agreement and an instant discount.

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