P4000 aka 6800 Complete review!

[Paragon]

For any of you who may be interested I have posted a complete review of the P4000.

Here's the link:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1153541

[shivers]

great review. now all I have to do is wait and see what Sprint is (... or is not) going to do.

[Paragon]

Originally Posted by shivers

great review. now all I have to do is wait and see what Sprint is (... or is not) going to do.

Thanks shivers....May 14th...is it the date....have you been naughty or nice?

[tbhausen]

I've been nice, myself... But I'm a "doubting Thomas" when it comes to 5/14.

Todd/Indy

[Paragon]

LOL. I don't blame you.

[shivers]

if the May 14th date still holds, I'll be one of the first in line ... or online to get it. I've been nice, so I hope Sprint treats me right. I almost got a Q, but I'm really glad I held out a little longer.

[Darth Pooh]

Originally Posted by Paragon

LOL. I don't blame you.

Very nicely done. Making me think about trading my Treo 700wx in for the PPC 6800.

-Darth

[UTSAFTW]

Thanks for the review Paragon.

If all goes well for us Sprinters, then we have about two weeks until it's "go time."

[Paragon]

I've now had my P4000 for just over two weeks. I have to say I'm still very happy with this phone. It is easily the best Windows Mobile phone I've used. Afte a couple of weeks use, little things sometimes start to pop up that can be annoying, so far they are very few, but there are a couple of issues.

Network connection
I have had problems with the P4000 connecting to the EVDO network. One problem I noticed early on, but haven't for awhile is getting kicked off the network. Then being asked for a password before it will let you back on. There have been reports of slow connection times. Also there have been reports of not being able to connect without doing a soft reset. I've had this happen a few times, and it happened again today after going several days without a connection problem.

To me anyway, this is not a show stopper, and the problems are very intermittent.

Speaker popping
I've heard a few people mention they are hearing poping or crackling from the speaker. I'm having this happen sometimes. It only happens occasionally and is usually associated with short sounds like screen taps. I'm not sure what causes this problem. It has affected Pocket PCs in the past.

Again it is not a show stopper and it only happens occasionally.

Keyboard
I mentioned in the review that the keyboard opens to the right. This is now pretty standard on all sliding keyboard HTC devices. With the keyboard now sliding out to the right, it puts the dpad on the left to be used with your left hand. I never noticed this till the other day when a poster on another site mentioned it to me. As I said this is the case on all HTC sliding keyboard devices. I'm not really sure why they chose this switch, in a predominantly right handed world.

Also I have noticed the light for my keyboard not coming on in the dark sometimes. It seems ok now but for a couple of days it wouldn't come on.

Otherwise I'm very pleased with this phone. If anyone wants it they will have to pry it our of my cold dead hands.

Dave

[slypher]

Originally Posted by Paragon

For any of you who may be interested I have posted a complete review of the P4000.

Here's the link:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1153541

Wow, that was a great review. I have one question about a real pain in the a$$ on the 6700......if you have a magnet (such as the ones in the cases for the 6700) near the 6800, will it cause the screen to flip like it does on the 6700?

This really bothered me and caused many unwanted resets on my 6700

-s