http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/ Engadget Mobile Comments for MDA gone from T-Mobile's website http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/Apr 5th 2007 9:31PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
Either way, doesn't matter to me. Unless they replace it with an upcoming Treo, I'm jumping ship and going to Cingular as soon as my contract ends this year.]]>Apr 5th 2007 10:23PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/Apr 5th 2007 11:16PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/Apr 5th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
Brian and Dean: I hope you're right. One of my biggest gripes about T-Mobile is that they haven't officially announced a true successor to the MDA.

Now the question remains: do I go the Blackberry 8300 route, or do I want a WM device?]]>Apr 6th 2007 12:13AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/For me it's like this - if you dont' mind a lot of futzing around, winmo5 is okay. I use a PPC 6700 on sprint and it rocks. HOWEVER - like I sad - it requires a lot of fiddling.

Blackberry - it just always works. zero fiddling around.
But it didn't have a camera and there was no file system.
But for email, chat, and text - you really can't beat Blackberry.

ah - another major difference - most blackberry devices have tiny tiny little keyboards. The keyboard on the PPC-6700 is way more spacious. But I dont like the feedback. It's too darn mushy.]]>Apr 6th 2007 12:22AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/

I agree that the WM5 requires fiddling while BlackBerry doesnt. However I find after fiddling with it, you can make WM5 whatever you want. It becomes a much more robust platform after you finish customizing everything. I guess if someone is lazy and just wanted something to work perfectly out of the box, a blackberry is great, but for geeks like me who like to customize things to my own way, WM5 is the best hands down :)


Im glad that MDA is finally being retired. The phone is a great phone, but its just too much of a brick! Im excited to see what is out in the horizon.. hopefully the P4350! That is one SEXY phone...]]>Apr 6th 2007 1:16AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/It's got the same 8525 specs. They stated that T-Mobile will be HSDPA by around the end of 2007 or early-mid 2008. They said that T-Mobile is basically planning on turning on the HSDPA lights all at once everywhere (or at least all of their major markets) rather than roll it out area by area.

]]>Apr 6th 2007 2:47AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
If T-mo rolls out the same MDA III as in Europe, rather than the 8525 I think I'll take the Cingular 8525 plunge as the MDA III has no 3G and no WiFi :-(]]>Apr 6th 2007 10:51AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/Apr 6th 2007 7:39AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/ Alex..What Market are you in? It seems that major markets wont go live with 3G until 4Q 07..Alot of Reps are saying the Harold is going to be the replacement... Can anyone else verify a Harold vs Hermes release rumour?]]>Apr 6th 2007 9:20AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
I am a bit confused now... I am assuming here that the HTC Harold is the MDA III. They called it the MDA III, but the pic they showed me was a dark blue 8525. And I'm positive about the pic. The 8525 doesn't really look like the MDA III as far as the controls go. The MDA III has a circular dial.

I would think it would be kind of a dumb move to release the MDA III since it has no G3 & no WiFi. Wifi is something that many getting PDA phones are now starting to expect as a feature (not everyone, but more and more) and if they go live with HSDPA in late 07 (Q4) or early-mid 08, they would have NO HSDPA capable phones. If they release the T-mo 8525 clone, then at least they would have *1* HSDPA phone...

It *could* be that they roll out the MDA III next month, and then towards the end of the year roll out the 8525 to coincide with HSDPA going live, but the guys at the T-mo store gave no indication of that at all.]]>Apr 6th 2007 11:03AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/Apr 6th 2007 2:46PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=669
It is a pity its basically thinner and 2MP Shooter..still a pitiful 200mhz proc. But man if Tmo rolled out an 8525 , I'd sh*t gold eggs and mail em to engadget mobile (easter style)]]>Apr 6th 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=728 replaces the SDA]]>Apr 6th 2007 4:16PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
Alex, which way did the keyboard slide out? left=Hermes right=Herald
It doesnt matter how the nav buttons looked, its just a different housing for a different carrier. Look at the MDA compared to the 8125, theyre the same phone but just look different.

Dan, I doubt that Tmo will release the Wings b4 the Vox. The Vox already released in Europe and its not 3G so i suspect that this may be headed to Tmo. now maybe when Tmo's 3G is up and running I could see Tmo releasing the Wings sometime next year once the 3G is nationally rolled out.]]>Apr 6th 2007 5:42PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/Apr 6th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/which is the same old dash with the WM 6 and the ugly gold-grey wat ever is is to be a nice pearly white or an onix black which will be hitting shelves this month]]>Apr 6th 2007 6:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
I really don't get why T-Mobile hasn't had any Treos as of late...I think the last one they had was the 600.

If they were really smart, they could release the 750 with 3G disabled (it runs on GSM/EDGE too, right?) and then when they do roll out the network, they could issue an update.

Anyone know if there is a 750 variant coming out for Verizon anytime soon?]]>Apr 6th 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
dubz: The photo did not show the keyboard out.

The 8125 and the MDA look different because they ARE different. THey have a different keyboard. The graphics proc on the MDA was faster than the 8125, etc. They are not identical devices.

OK, THIS is the HTC Herald:
http://x.msmobiles.com/portal/images/phones/htc/htc-p4350-2.jpg
THIS is the HTC Hermes:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2006/6/htc-hermes-finalized.jpg

The photo I saw looked EXACTLY like the Hermes pic above, except that the dark grey areas were a navy color. The Hermes IS the 8525.

Some more links to follow:
msmobiles.com/news.php/5458.html
www.mydigitallife.us/2006/08/tmobile_mda_fol.html
www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/03/09/hands-on-with-the-htc-hermes-t-mobile-mda-vario-ii/]]>Apr 7th 2007 2:13PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/hands-on-with-the-htc-hermes-t-mobile-mda-vario-ii/]]>Apr 7th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
See Howard Forums for more plausible rumors! Everyone gets a different answer from their local T-Mo rep.]]>Apr 8th 2007 10:37PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
It will likely be the Herald aka "Wing" according to rumors. 200mhz but faster than the Dash.]]>Apr 9th 2007 12:15AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/Apr 9th 2007 12:52PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.itechnews.net/2007/03/05/htc-wing-s730-wm6-pda-phone/ ]]>Apr 9th 2007 2:51PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/
I have heard dates:
May 7th
May 23rd
Sometime in June
Sometime in July
Sometime in August.

I think whatever it ends up being, it will be in May.]]>Apr 9th 2007 5:02PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/May 15th 2007 3:09AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/05/mda-gone-from-t-mobiles-website/http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Detail.aspx?device=acc8102d-4506-4eaa-bc2f-9c7b8ec1b1e0

http://www.t-mobile.com/company/PressReleases_Article.aspx?assetName=Prs_Prs_20070522&title=T-Mobile%20Unveils%20a%20New%20Full-Featured%20Smartphone,%20the%20T-Mobile%20Wing]]>Sep 21st 2007 1:00AM