Brett Robinson’s Blog

So, I purchased the T-Mobile SDA that I wrote about last week and I have had it for about 5 days. Here are my thoughts on the phone…Overall its great. I have enabled the wi-fi and have been able to connect to a network and browse the internet, etc. Its pretty neat. When riding on the train I enable the wi-fi and watch the networks pop in and out. The camera and video have great quality. I have not had time to hook up the email yet to our exchange server, but from what I have read it is a pretty simple thing to do. Here are the negatives, the first is response time. When you try to navigate sometimes the phone is unresponsive for a few seconds and then it catches up with the clicks by doing 10 things in 1 second. The little knob that you’re supposed to navigate with is kind of hard to push in the right direction and click things. For example, you’ll select an item and click the button thinking it will open the application…but it doesn’t and maybe navigates to the item next to it. The last negative thing is memory. There isn’t much so a mini-SD is almost necessary to hold songs, application, etc. Overall a good purchase and I’m just getting started (wrote the first sample phone application yesterday and deployed it to the windows mobile 5.0 emulator in VS 2005).