by Frank McPherson, author of How To Do Everything With Windows Mobile

 
I recently aquired the T-Mobile Dash, which I have been using as my main personal mobile phone for the last month. It is by far the most physically elegant Smartphone that I have owned to date, and overall I have been happy with the device though I have a few complaints.

The slider/jogger "switch" to the right of the screen is extremely frustrating as I constantly accidentally enable the switch, no matter how I configured it's settings. Right now I have basically disabled the switch.

For some reason I am experiencing a problem with the Messaging application that requires me to reset the device to fix. I get to a point where Messaging will simply not start. In a similar way, I also experience problems with the device password. In many cases when the device password kicks in, I cannot get to the screen to enter the password. I press the left softkey to "Unlock" the phone and nothing happens, causing me to have to pull the battery in order to get the password prompt.

I haven't gathered enough information for me to determine the exact cause of this problem, but it seems to me that something is getting messed up in memory. I feel as though there is something going on with the radio, but I don't have any evidence to back that up.

Another quirk that I just discovered is that it appears the Dash doesn't have the .NET Compact Framework Version 2 installed in ROM, because I just installed Ben Hirashima's TxtMan and it won't run saying that I have an old version of the CF. I find this very odd since the Dash is actually running a newer version of Windows Mobile 5 than devices sold from the beginning of launch.

Labels: 2007

posted by Frank at 12:10 PM 

3 Comments:

Frank,
I too have the Dash and have disabled the jogger for the same reason. I have not had any problems with messaging however--I have a connection with push e-mail from an Exchange 2003 box and 2 POP/IMAP pull connections. I love using ORB with it when traveling. What I really miss is a remote desktop client.

Otherwise, it's the best converged device I've owned!

Rich

By Rich, at 9:45 AM  

I might have to wipe my Dash and start over, but I am pretty sure this was happening before I installed any software.

By Frank, at 11:53 AM  

If you guys are interested in document editing on the Dash (or other WM5 smartphone) you might find it interesting that DataViz released a preview of Documents To Go for WM5 smartphones. It includes editing for Office files, PDF viewer and a decompression utility.

http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/winmobile/index.html

By Jason, at 11:43 AM  

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