Top 10 Reasons I hate the T-Mobile MDA

1. It has no physical keyboard - this one was obvious from the moment I saw this phone. I thought I could look past this small quirk. Over the past 5 months, I have wanted to throw this thing out the window at many things: (including but not limited to: 18-wheelers on the interstate, a speeding cab in the streets of Chicago, and a Mexi-melt from Taco Bell
2. The darn thing won’t charge in my car once the battery goes dead. You have to physically charge it in a wall charger and my car charger just won’t work - this really stinks
3. the previous statement leads to this one: one would think that any USB based charger would work with this phone (sorry blackberry users, no luck)
4. Call waiting - when I hit ’swap’ I expect the phone to well - switch calls - good luck getting that to work
5. Pushing buttons - well let’s see - this is a hard one - the buttons just don’t work on the touch pad half the time - if I hit the call status, I expect to see the keypad to enter my conference call #, not go to Speakerphone
6. quickBoot time - the other day, I left my house, turned on the phone in the car - by the time I got to Costco - over 4 miles away, the phone finally came up with the password screen when I pulled into the parking place - a good 8 minutes later. Gotta love a ‘mobile’ phone that you can actually use in the car
7. we’ll call this one - “general Windows freak out”. 75% of the time this phone freaks out, windows won’t close and it just plain doesn’t work, way to go Pocket PC 5.0
8. hold up and then go ballistic - this is what I call it when I try to end a call, hit the “end” button like 10 times and nothing happens - then in about 1 minute, the phone sounds like a machine gun when it performs all 10 of those button presses in about 10 milliseconds
9. taking a picture of the inside of your pocket - nothing cooler than getting a quick picture of the inside of your pants - gotta love the camera placement button
10. going silent when not asked to - sometimes this thing just goes into silent mode when not even told to - many days, my silent mode it off, all alert tones are set to off and ringer is set to off - just by itself - nothing caused this, it just decided to go ’silent’

Don’t get me wrong, when the pocket pc phone works, it’s great, but when it’s not, I have a mind to throw it in the fryer at my local McDonalds!