msmobiles.com: T-Mobile SDA Review

[Kris Kumar]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/3100.html' target='_blank'>http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/3100.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Just a couple of days from now T-Mobile will start selling its first Windows Mobile powered Smartphone – the SDA. It is time to take a look at the Orange c500’s brother to unveil the differences between both phones. The SDA continues the line of T-Mobile’s MDA (MDA stands for Mobile Digital Assistant, SDA for Smart Digital Assistant) and is the first Windows Mobile Smartphone in T-Mobile’s product portfolio."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/tmobile-sdasmall.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />msmobiles.com has done a nice photo review of the T-Mobile SDA Business Edition. The best part about the review is that it is in English. :-) The review compares the SDA with its sibling the C500 (wish it had comparison shots). The T-Mobile SDA has the dreaded GAPI/gaming bug similar to the C500. And another interesting observation that I found posted in the comments on the site was that the SDA (20mm) is almost 20% thicker than the C500 (16mm). It will be interesting to see how the sibling rivalry will unfold in the market place.

[lutzh]

...if you let me know where i can upload or send the comparsion pictures from c500/sda i can send them to you since i've done both reviews (modaco/msmobiles). i've added two pictures of sda/c500 together to the msmobiles review on request....

cheers, lutz

[Kris Kumar]

...if you let me know where i can upload or send the comparsion pictures from c500/sda i can send them to you since i've done both reviews (modaco/msmobiles). i've added two pictures of sda/c500 together to the msmobiles review on request....

cheers, lutz

Thanks Lutz, please send them to news at smartphonethoughts dot com :-)

[Jason Dunn]

This phone looks great, but assuming it's the same as the i-Mate SP3i, 25% thicker and the only difference is the 850 band is added? Are there any other difference? 25% seems like a lot - must be a different radio chipset inside?

Great review though!

[Mike Temporale]

25% seems like a lot - must be a different radio chipset inside?

doesn't look like much in this picture. :?

http://x.msmobiles.com/lh/images/c500sda2.bmp

[Jason Dunn]

doesn't look like much in this picture. :?

Yeah, that looks like 2-3mm tops... :?

[Kris Kumar]

doesn't look like much in this picture. :?

Yeah, that looks like 2-3mm tops... :?

Plus an additional 1mm for the rounded buttons. ;-)

I hope the extra thickness is to accomodate a bigger battery.
And I hope NOT that the extra thickness is to accomodate the two extra buttons. ;-)

[possmann]

I can't wait until someone reviews the SDA Music edition.

I admit that I have my eyes on that one. I'm going to let the MPX220 run by me now - as I think that T-Mo has 'em beat with this phone.

Now I wonder how I can convince T-Mo that they should allow me to buy the phone in the EU, but keep my same US phone number and extend my contract by 24 months with them .... so I don't have to pay full price

hmmm - any suggestions? :lol:

[lutzh]

you'll see an sda music pretty soon when it slips out of my pockets ;-). give it another tow weeks or so.

cheers, lutz

[sbrown23]

Are these Europe only? Or will TMO USA carry the SDA smartphones??

[aristoBrat]

Are these Europe only? Or will TMO USA carry the SDA smartphones??
AFAIK, there has been no "official" word. Unoffical word is that T-Mobile US will push the new BlackBerry hard, and then push these phones.

Lutz, you should post your t-zones screen shots over here. It's simply amazing at what T-Mobile's done with 'em. :)

[lutzh]

sure. but you have to learn deutsch then :-)

cheers, lutzhttp://www.smartphone-web.com/modules/wysiwyg_editor/upload/t-zones.jpg

cheers, lutz

[aristoBrat]

Danke!

I wouldn't mind forking out $4.99/month if T-Mobile US could get their t-zones to look like that. :)

[lutzh]

Bitte!

do they really charge some 4,99 on top for that in the us?
if you lokk at the offers there (+ stands for free, * stands for extra charged content) t-mobile should give the access to it for free. i see alot of potential in it for t-mobile to make it a usefull extra for the first time. i will try to get to the international t-zones next week. i come back as soon as i see t-mobile getting it done for outer germany too.

cheers (viele gruesse), lutz

[possmann]

why oh why do we in the US have to wait so long?!?! - T-mo in Germany is on top of it - they really need to move that stuff to the US because no other carrier offers anything close to this - sigh...

I'm really leaning at getting that SDA Music - and luckily I versteh Deutsch :wink: so I could even live with the Germany OS if need be...

I just don't see anything close to this in the US until like summer or fall of 2005. I certainly will NOT wait that long.

[aristoBrat]

Well, not that it helps your wait any, but to put it in perspective, Windows Mobile smartphones have been out for 2+ years in Europe, and T-Mobile DK is just now rolling out theirs.

Hopefully T-Mobile US won't make us wait two years. :D