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also known as HTC Mogul , Verizon Wireless XV6800 , PCD PPC6800 , HTC P4000 Titan
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30 Jul 2007
HTC Mogul Review
Sprint's new WM6 Professional Phone
The Mogul is a wonderful phone regardless of whether you are looking for a business phone or one to use everyday. With a great email client, messaging system, and long talk-time, it should be easy to stay connected and perform your daily actions no matter where you are. Judging by the look of the Mogul alone, it does seems that it is geared towards businesses but it is not limited to this one category. The slow UI response may push some users to look at a BlackBerry, but the Mogul is no worse of a phone.
- Excellent
- out of 10
- Keywords:
- HTC
,- Sprint
,- WM Professional
,- QWERTY
,- Business
1. Almost, but Not Quite
27 Aug 2008 by Aaron L
53.3%5.3out of 10
I had this phone for a week and already returned it. This was my first smart phone and I was hoping for a little more. I have played with an iPhone and this phone didn't come close, but I am not going to ATT because their coverage is awful in our area.
I am only going to point out the negatives since these are the reasons I ultimately returned the phone.
- Signal strength was terrible versus my previous phone (Motorola Razr)
- If you don't use the stylus, you'll be selecting a lot things you didn't want to
- Set up an outside e-mail accout and when mail was in my mailbox I did not get a notification. The rep at the cell company duplicated the exact same thing and he could not explain why it was happening. The only was you get a notification is if the phone is in standby mode.
- Clumsy navigation for getting a contact to dial out.
- Did I mention that the signal strength was terrible?
- Sucks battery like there is no tomorrow if using it for web browsing
- You have to lock the screen to prevent random inputs
- Even set at the loudest ring, it could have been louder still.
When you pay $350 for a phone you would expect to have at least the same type of service that you did before, if not better. I did not get that with this phone. The phone is pretty cool looking and I enjoyed getting on the Internet, but for what I paid and what I was paying a month, it was hard to justify in my mind.
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2.
26 Aug 2008 by Anonymous
64%6.4out of 10
I've had this phone for about 4 months and I'm now selling it on ebay b/c I'm getting the BB Curve!
I think it's with all WINDOWS COMPATIBLE phones, they FREEZE. I have reset my PDA 3 to 4 times a day and I don't even have 3rd party prgrm or a loaded SD card inserted.
It's nerve recking. Sometimes if I'm typing a text..it goes SO SLOW.
I"m aggravated and so I decided to sell this phone on ebay.
With the updated ROM (6.1), I will admit that it MOST DEFINTIELY Improved the Battery life TREMENDOUSLY. Without a doubt.
The sprint TV is so AWESOME too.
Um...but I've had my share of TOUCHSCREEN PHONES. I don't like them anymore.
It just sucks. I"ve had my share with WIndows Compatible phones PERIOD. Time for something new...A BB. I hope I have luck with that.
BYE BYE HTC & Mr. Mogul.
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3. HTC Mogul - post 6.1 upgade
12 Aug 2008 by Charles Hollingshed
98%9.8out of 10
I shared the same opinions as most of you: constant freezing, short battery life, forced to soft reset 2-3 times daily just to keep the some type of functionality and generally having second thoughts about having made this purchase UNTIL I upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 update.
Upgrades the operating system from Windows Mobile® 6.0 Professional to Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Adds Sprint TV
Includes all enhancements incorporated in previous software upgrades including:
EV-DO Rev. A functionality for faster download and upload speeds when utilizing data services wherever EV-DO Rev. A coverage is available.
Advanced GPS functionality including the Sprint Navigation application.
Adds a Task Manager to the Today screen for easier access and management of running programs.
My device has not frozen up since the upgrade about a week ago.
Batter life seemed improved... Hummmm
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4. xv6800
17 May 2008 by Joel
62%6.2out of 10
I have had the phone for a week. Not once has the alarm gone off at the proper time. In fact, the phone must be "awake" for the alarm to go off, something had to do when it goes into sleep mode every 5 min. The design of the phone is awkward. The ability's of the phone are phenomenal. Over all, I did not like the hardware, but the OS of the phone is super sweet. I do believe that my phone as a bad software version, as the ok button does not consistently work, it randomly picks screens to go to, and there is about a 10 second lag between keyboard and screen.
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5. Windows freeze, battery life issue
6 May 2008 by Sis
64%6.4out of 10
Bought this phone in Nov 07. I was debating on a BB or HTC. HTC won out because of wifi feature. I should have gotten the BB. This phone has many neat features that I will never use. Realizing now I only need: phone, text, email and web browsing. All four core features are hard to use and setup on the HTC. To make matters worse windows mobile keeps on freezing up. Programs would not close even after you close it...huh???To reset (unfreeze) windows mobile I would have to remove the battery and power up again, generally rebooting. THis happens at a frequency of once/day. Battery life is terrible even after setting it to be the most efficient. I use the phone approx. 30 mins/day (talk) and about 30mins/day email and browsing, each day I would need to charge it. I cannot go a day without charging it. In January the phone would not power up at all. I have given up on it and bought myself a BB. So far so good with the BB.
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6. Gave up the Razr2 V9M for this...Gladly.
30 Apr 2008 by burymeinblack
100%10out of 10
I've had a lot of phones, all incapable of doing what I want them to do. Some I've had have been high style while others are work horses. I gave up a Razr2 V9M for this phone and I gotta say I'm glad. I've had this phone going on a month now and I've HIGHLY customized it and setup all the features the way that I want them to be. I've yet to be disappointed in this aspect. While I did give up picture mail capability I have since found a work around. True, it's a little bit more work than just POINT-CLICK-SEND, but I gladly give all that up for what I have gained. Including dowloading ringtones, themes, pictures and content directly from my favorite web-site. While with my Razr2 I had to do a lot of work for just getting a ringtone on there. Yeah, the slimness of the Razr2 beat the bulkiness of the Mogul, but the gaining of a full QWERTY keyboard more than makes up for that. My Emails are now instantly accessible and my QWERTY keyboard makes answering them a breeze. The touch screen is awesome, can't stop touching it, even if just to see the screen light up. Ha! I was very hesitant at first to make the switch, but now I'm glad I did. The standard web browser does still kills a lot of pages, but installing Opera took care of that. And with some new updates coming from Sprint that'll be fully taken care of soon. Overall, the sound quality of the phone calls I get are excellent, even with only one bar and the EVDO service (My city still doesn't have Rev A) also continues to be speedy as all heck, even with one bar. Another thing I gained with this phone is the ability to send and receive bluetooth files and songs. A feature which is disabled on all other sprint phones I've dealt with. In the end this phone is not for everyone. If you aren't ready for a smart phone or a phone that requires a lot of user input or know how don't get this phone! Stay with the phone you have now and don't down this phone just because you don't know how to use it or it was too much for you to handle. This phone is for either corporate types or computer geeks like myself or power users. All others I'm afraid will be lost and find the phone unsatisfactory. I'm sticking with this phone until the new replacement for it (The Raphael) comes out. And who knows? I might even just forego the Raphael and just keep my Mogul. Time will tell.
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7. Gahh...
27 Apr 2008 by Alyssa
54%5.4out of 10
I hate this phone. It is slow, and it is wayy too bulky.
I'm tired of it and I can't wait to get a new one..
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8.
17 Apr 2008 by Black Caesar
74%7.4out of 10
I do have this phone for US Cellular and have had it for a week now. There are a lot of positives with this phone...and they all seem great considering this is my first smartphone (upgraded from a RAZR). HOWEVER, like the "normal" customer, I'm going to focus in on a few annoying negatives that really do need to be addressed.
1. HTC's proprietary USB connection. WHY??????? That's the same damn thing Apple does with their computers (because I like to build my own) which is why I've not bought a Mac...yet. But still, a normal miniUSB port would be so much better. Now, if you get this phone and you lose the converter/adaptors that come with it, you have to go online and buy a new one which will cost you around $30. Absolutely ridiculous.
2. This phone should have come with a rubberized casing EXACTLY like what the Motorola QMoto has. That was just an incredible design flaw. While it looks sleek and extremely professional the way it is, a rubber casing would make this lil gem that much more "safe" so it doesn't easily slip out of your hands as mine has done already.
3. WHY IN H*LL IS THE MMS PICTURE MESSAGING CAPABILTIY TURNED OFF??????????????? Again, I have US Cellular so I don't know if they have MMS turned off for all of their smartphones/pdas in their internal servers or if I just need to hack into the registry of my phone and turn on the MMS capabiltiy myself. I DO know for a fact that Sprint telecom has effectively turned OFF the MMS Picture Messaging capability within their SERVERS for all Sprint smartphones/pdas/etc and it is pissing off a LOT of Sprint customers. I'm hoping that US Cellular does not follow the same path and it's just an easy "hack" of the OS on the phone. By the way, don't bother calling customer support for US Cellular regarding this. They will just tell you that the MMS feature is turned off within the phone itself. In other words, they don't know either. What I've been typing here has been through experience and doing my homework online.
Aside from those gripes, I actually do like this phone...for the remainder of the 30 day trial period that I have left. One of the best features (if not the best to me personally) is the Internet Sharing feature. With it, I can actually use the celluar internet package I have with my phone, run the USB cable from my phone to my laptop, turn on the Internet Sharing function on the phone and my laptop assigns an IP address to the phone...I can browse the internet via US Celluar's celluar network using the phone as a modem. In case there are no hotspots available for my laptop to pick up, this is a VERY useful feature...used it quite a bit already. Otherwise, I'll be deciding within the next week or so whether or not I'll keep this phone.
For US Celluar customers, I hope this helps out a bit with your decision making.
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9. Good not great
22 Feb 2008 by Albert
78%7.8out of 10
i have had the phone, with sprint; for bout 3 weeks now. the battery started out only giving me 6 hrs; but as the days rolled on it got better and better, so now i'm up to 8+ hrs per day. i have been very happy with the enternet on this phone. the speed is good, and the rendered page looks very good. the speaker on the phone is very disappointing. i love doin ringtones; but the speaker is soo weak on this smartphone; it makes it look dum, lol. i downloaded an update from the HTC website; and it improved the bluetooth sound a geat deal, i recommend this for all users. another thing that i was disappointed with, was that it doesn't have voice independent voice dial. i was so use too that with my old sanyo, now i got to find a quite dark room to record all these voice commands; and hope they work when im doin 45mph going to work,lol.
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10. Director
10 Feb 2008 by Poul Danask
100%10out of 10
Aewsome, the pefect phone and PDA
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