Times are bad, children no longer obey their parents and everyone's got a blog. Memo to Microsoft and Orange: Connecting a mobile phone to email needs to be a lot easier... : comments.
The Universal is the first 3G device that MS have got to market and the Connection Manager which controls the data and voice connection states is something of a Kludge from the 2.5G solution. Plus I have it on good authority that HTC were really pushed to get it out to market.
There are some problems with the call handling on all the MS phones which were only fixed in the latest 2G devices but there would be a lot of dropped calls, unable to answer, hung radio stacks and the like. I understand that the Universal is a little bit like that. It's ok if you just want a data device but it's a mess as a phone.
However, by the middle/end of 06 there will be a lot more devices with a lot of fixes to the Connection Manager and a more robust 3G solution.
The really _good_ phones will be out in Q4 06/Q1 07 but it is worth waiting if you want 3G.
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If you are actually thinking of it as a phone then I'd wait.
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Not tried it with a Bluetooth headset, but I think that would be the only real way it would be useable.
As a portable 3G/GPRS data terminal it's rather decent.
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There are some problems with the call handling on all the MS phones which were only fixed in the latest 2G devices but there would be a lot of dropped calls, unable to answer, hung radio stacks and the like. I understand that the Universal is a little bit like that. It's ok if you just want a data device but it's a mess as a phone.
However, by the middle/end of 06 there will be a lot more devices with a lot of fixes to the Connection Manager and a more robust 3G solution.
The really _good_ phones will be out in Q4 06/Q1 07 but it is worth waiting if you want 3G.