Rating  - tries to do too much and succeeds at frustrating you...
I bought this 6 months ago, and initially I was aware of certain complaints that it was quirky and would freeze on occasion. The attraction of all of the capability it offered, the ability to take quality photos, to stream the net, GPS functionality, google maps, read pdf files, work on microsoft word documents, the keyboard and the touchscreen pushed me to it.
Those features are neat when they work, I thought I would be on the net more than I was, considering that the majority of the net offers flash content which the mogul doesnt support means a slow and dumbed down experience, you will eventually find that all you really use it for is to send and receive email. The quirkiness is beyond frustrating, its not just a few moments that you have to wait, its the fact that you have to manually pull the stylus out and close out applications that are opened.
And thats just the beginning. At one point with it I was so upset I had to violently lash out and physically strike a notepad I had laying around repeatedly when i mistakingly left a box checked while "synching" my contacts from another email acount with the phone and inadvertently erased all of my phone numbers. There was no warning for that, no way to know that was the consequence, and Im not the only one that this has happened to.
Another moment I wanted to hit something was when for some stupid reason i was unable to stream satellite radio through the internet feature as I usually was able to. After HOURS and Im talking HOURS of research on the net I found that the culprit was a microsoft word document that had been created, and for no other reason than that.
The phone will freeze up on you at least twice a day, no big deal right? It takes 5 minutes to boot up! WTF? Youre out of touch with the world because you have a phone that tries too hard to be a laptop. I have wasted so much time with this, and I have been so frustrated with it. I have come to within a threads distance from throwing this phone at a wall as hard as I can. If you value your happiness, do not allow yourself to be frustrated with this device, it needs to return to the drawing boards and the kinks need to be ironed out big time.
I have reached my limit with it. Having turned off my data plan with sprint because I cant justify the $35. extra a month for the ability to check my email on the go, I dont use any of the features, I dont like having to pull the stylus out to tap the touchscreens numbers as though I were a surgeon at an operating table. Dial a number in the car? Dont even try it!
So today, the end of my relationship with this device, I tried to make a word document, and then upload it onto my pc. I initially tried to locate the file through the tethered connection, activesynch, nothing. So I pulled out the storge card, and put that in a card reader. Found what appeared to be a file but all that will display in Word on the pc is something in klingon. I am prompted to choose a script, I have a microsoft script for every language to choose from, after trying vietnamese and a few others I realize that an hour has passed!
Between pulling the data card out of the phone and plugging and unplugging the usb cable and everything else my heartrate picked up, i actually had to stop and rationally count to ten taking deep breaths after a bit of this. I really, really just wanted to hit this phone at this point. I have decided to sell it on ebay, pray that youre one those that is in the market for a PDA phone that happens to read this before perusing ebay for one.
I should do the right thing and walk to the end of the earth and throw this piece of crap back to the gods like the protagonist from "the gods must be crazy" felt he had to do with the coke bottle.
Everyone gets this phone and owns it for a few weeks or a month and is initially impressed with it, ask the owners that have had it for more than a few months, they will tell you, it is unreliable, quirky, and the features become a novelty, in the end all you want to do is make phone calls with it, and to do that youre required to have both of your hands free to extract the stylus from the phone, and then carefully press the teeny weeny numbers on the screen, then return the stylus. And its weight and heft become apparent at this point, I am getting rid of this phone and getting a flip open phone that I can just flip open with my thumb and with one hand dial numbers and return the phone to my pocket where it will fit comfortably when Im done. And the battery on said phone will last longer than 8 hours, and the phone wont freeze.
Total piece of crap, take heed.
//UPDATE// 30 July 2008
So I had just written this review, and today I was in the middle of composing a lengthy text message when the phone received a text message. That was enough to freeze it, and force me to pull out the stylus and do a soft reset and lose the message I was working on. The phone booted back up and I went back to sending the text message having to start all over again. Then on its own, while I was in the middle of the text message a display appeared stating that I the phone was trying to synch with the pc and it wasnt even connected! I tried to stop whatever it was doing but it wouldnt respond, so again I had to do a soft reset, this time it was taking quite some time to boot back up, the HTC logo appeared and then below it said "radio intereference" or something. Again I had to do a soft reset, the HTC "smart mobility" logo would appear but then nothing. Again soft reset, nothing. Remove batter, ok logo back on then nothing. Plug phone into power, red light. Not good.
So after all of this, this phone finally kicked the bucket when it tried to compose and receive a text message. What a joke. 6 months, thats a short lifespan. Miraculously, a customer service rep was nice enough to agree to send me a free phone of my choosing, the only model I could think of with a qwerty keyboard and one that didnt try to reinvent the wheel was the lg rumor. So thats coming and this piece of junk is going back to sprint so the mad scientists can figure out what all the fuss is.
Do your homework, do some research, google keywords such as "battery life", red light battery dead, freezing, problems, etc. Not a good phone, dont do it.
Rating  - It's junk!
My boss gave me this thing to do my job, and I absolutely HATE IT!
This PDA is SO BAD. No headphone port. What jackass makes a POCKET PC that's capable of playing MP3 and intenret radio with no HEADPHONE PORT!?!
Rating  - HTC Mogul/PPC-6800
I have had my mogul for about a week now, and I like it for the most part.
as usual, i'll start with the bad things.
CONS:
1. my biggest complaint, and this is probably b/c i'm just switching from Nextel is that the speaker volume sucks.
2. Too many stinking blinking lights on the darn thing. Green, orange?? Blue??!! why do they have to blink?? it reminds me of those blinking coupon generators at the grocery store, trying to grab your attention..that, or an airplane. It'd be better just to have a green for full charge, yellow for medium and red for time to charge up.
3. short battery life. I am used to leaving my phone on overnight (i work midnight to eight) in the car, but i have to turn it off now. i've learned some tricks like making sure the accept beams is turned off, and that there are no programs running, and the wifi switch is turned off.
4. Another bad thing about the phone is that sometimes, you don't know, but it's calling someone. One night, I called in to work. Next thing i know, i look at my call history, and i called work three more times. OOps. Also, and i'm glad that there is text to voice text messaging for landlines; however, i saw that my text message that I sent to a certain phone number had been sent (twice, so two different messages). I looked up the phone number, and I apparently had text messaged the local chilis restaurant. I have them as a contact as I like ordering the curbside pickup, but it did weird me out to know that I was inadvertently texting them. I guess it dials while the phone is in my pocket, and I accidentally hit some keys or something.
Good things:
1. this is my first smart device since i made the mistake and bought the i930. it totally blows that out of the water, and you can download things to the phone, and it's upgradeable as well.
2. my phone came with the newest upgrade, so i didn't have to upgrade yet. the guy that says he needed a bluetooth gps adapter is wrong. i know that sprint navigation/telenav states that the phone does, but that must have been before the software update. it will pinpoint exactly where i am, along with displaying a map, and even saying the street names.
3. i love being able to use my own mp3 files as ringtones. too bad the speaker sucks.
all in all, i like the phone very much. I especially like the sprint navigation as I can find phone number a lot quicker than even using the internet. Like i said, i've had this phone a week, and it still does things that i haven't figured out yet. i recommend that anyone who buys this phone buy and download the photo contacts pro. it offers you so much more flexibility with the phone than the software that comes with the phone.
25 May 2008: One other thing that I would like to add, and this is for Johnny Law too. I went to Orlando, and I tried to use the resorts wifi access for my laptop, but the signal was way too weak. So, I called Sprint, asked them to change my data package to the phone as a modem to try my luck that way. I was scared b/c I had never used my phone as a modem, and I figured that it'd be extremely difficult. If you are using Vista, you just plug the phone in using the active sync usb cable that is provided with the phone, and on the phone, go to start/program/internet sharing/use usb, and at the bottom, hit connect. the laptop finished everything by adding a driver, and it connected flawlessly. My friend that I'm on vacation with, doesn't have any sprint software on her laptop, but it was just plug it in, and internet share on the phone, and she was on the internet too. I just thought that was pretty cool. I'm not trying to incite anything, and i'm not a microsoft/sprint fanboy either.
*********23 July 08...Be advised that there is a new rom update for the mogul which changes it to windows mobile professional 6.1 and also adds Sprint TV. you can find this information at the HTC mogul update homepage.
Rating  - So much potential brings disappointment
The HTC Mogul has the potential to be a very useful phone/PDA. That being said, the HTC Mogul is full of disappointments.
My biggest grievances are:
1) The poor battery life.
--Even if you only use the device a few times a day, the battery will die within 24 hours at best. The device has a few lights on it that blink ALL the time whether the phone has something to tell you or not. When you plug the phone into charge, a very bright, blue light turns on making it difficult to sleep in the same room without turning the phone over.
2) Ability to act as a phone.
--The HTC Mogul is far harder to use than a normal phone. Everything from adding a new contact to using the call waiting is more difficult. Dealing with automated call centers is especially hard because the keypad constantly disappears.
--The audio quality is sub par.
3)Unfulfilled promises.
--The HTC Mogul was sold to me with the idea that I could use Sprints impressive data connection to watch videos online. That would work if Sprint didn't use software to block watching videos on sites like YouTube. The only place that I have been able to watch videos is on Sprint TV which costs extra on top of a data connection.
--The phone was also supposed to support GPS. In order to use GPS on the HTC Mogul, you first must buy an external GPS locater for at least $100. Do not buy this phone as a GPS unit alternative.
4) Phone as modem.
--Setting up the HTC to work with your computer is a lengthy process. If you have multiple lap tops, they will all need to be configured to use the Mogul as a modem. Do not expect anything close to plug and play.
Staying up to date on Facebook and Gmail is also fairly straight forward. Reading news stories works well on the phone although general research is limited by the lack of web support for mobile devices (An identical search on a lap top and on the HTC Mogul will fetch far more results on a lap top).
This phone is on the right track to replacing the modern lap top but the iPhone is a much better choice right now. I would like to see advances by Microsoft, the Moguls OS, in extending battery life.
If you buy this phone, be sure to place the provided screen cover on immediately.
Rating - Mogul
Well I have own the Mogul for about 2 weeks. My only complaint is the battery life. You need to tune the phone with your specification in order to increase the battery life. Im going to buy the extended battery that way I can use the MP3 features and internet without worrying about charging the battery as much.
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