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...satisfied my e-mail needs, I was less happy with its desktop-type instant-messaging options. Unless you use MSN, you have to download a third-party application such as Agile Messenger, which is still buggy. T-Mobile pre-loads a solid messaging application in its newest smartphone, the SDA, and I wish Verizon did the same. For the most part, all third-party products that benefit the SDA, such as ALK's CoPilot Live 6 GPS navigation system, will also benefit...
While mobile e-mail fanatics are discussing the BlackBerry-killer software introduced by Microsoft at the 3GSM mobile-phone conference in Barcelona, I want to talk about an e-mail-ready phone that's just hitting the market - T-Mobile's SDA. The carrier launched it this week, along with a big brother, the MDA Pocket PC. Both phones run versions of Windows Mobile 5.0, though the SDA is no larger than a typical candy-bar phone. Like standard phones, it has no touch screen ? you operate it with buttons; unlike standard phones, it has an HTML browser, can juggle...
...SDA is a useful platform for software such as CoPilot. Though the system occasionally strains when it's given too much to do, it manages to pull through without freezing up. The battery life is pretty good, too: During a two-hour round trip with the screen backlight on and the speaker barking navigational instructions, the SDA didn't even lose a bar of battery power...
...SDA does, however, have some software idiosyncrasies. When I plug it into my laptop, for example, it crashes the computer's Wi-Fi connection. The only solution is a full reboot. Even when it can't connect to the Internet, because - for instance - it's in Flight Mode (no radio, for use on airplanes), it tries anyway, and then gives you error messages, rather than alerting you to switch modes. Incidentally, during my test I put the phone in Flight Mode, then couldn't figure out how to get it back to a normal calling state...
...Though the SDA's Microsoft operating system may at times be frustrating, the Microsoft connection may pay off. If your e-mail is managed via a Microsoft Exchange server, your SDA could become one of the eagerly anticipated BlackBerry killers. According to early reports, Microsoft's Direct Push e-mail system will be available as a free download on Windows Mobile devices, first from Cingular and then later from other carriers. For details, check out this report by PC Mag's Sascha Segan...