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Brand: HTC
Category: Wireless
List Price: $599.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 40
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Display Size: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: 8925
UPC: 821793000585
ASIN: B000UWDU5K
Release Date: October 5, 2007
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 Worst phone I have ever owned. Wanted to love it, but can't. July 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I pre-ordered this phone prior to it's initial availability. I have pretty extensive experience with other smart-phone and PDA devices such as the Palm, Treo, Nokia 6682, and iPhone.
The feature set on this phone is amazing and offers unparalleled functionality and possibilities, unfortunately the implementation is so ill-conceived that this phone is nearly useless.
What's wrong with this phone? Here are the lowlights:
- Battery life. I am lucky to make it to 5:00 p.m. with any battery left. I charge it every night, and don't use WiFi or Bluetooth
- No profiles. Most every phone I have had has had the ability to select and/or configure profiles of ringtones. For example, I may want to set the phone to only ring when someone in the "Family" group calls. This is only available as an added program with the Tilt
- AT&T bloatware. The extra software that AT&T installs slows the phone down and adds little value. My phone locked up repeatedly until I figured out a way to remove the installed AT&T customizations
- The GUI. If there is a counter-intuitive choice for an interface convention, you can be sure that's the default behavior for the AT&T Tilt. For example, the screen blanks out while I am on a call. When I make a call, the keypad disappears.
- Built in IE. Slow and jittery.
- The mini-usb port is weak and subject to breaking. I had to return my phone twice under warranty and my 3rd phone is already intermittent. These phones live in a leather case, and are not abused (I use a wired headset).
- It's a big heavy phone.
- Intellitext (or whatever they call it) when typing text messages is simply annoying - not helpful
- Picture quality for a 3 Mega Pixel camera is very poor
- Buttons are only partially customizable without add-in programs
Is there anything that I like about these phones? A few things:
- You can customize them fairly easily. More easily then the iPhone. I've had several "skins" on mine, and that's helped with usability a bit, but not enough.
- This phone is pretty "hackable". For example, you can edit the registry to fix errors, or change some undesirable default behavior.
- Jog wheel is occasionally handy
- Exchange connectivity works pretty well (ActiveSync)
I really, really wanted to like this phone. But this phone has become like an annoying coworker that I have to put up with. I need it to get my job done, but most of the time the best I can say about it is that it didn't prevent me from getting something done, as opposed to actually improving the way I accomplish something.
piece of crap July 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
first off, the rating is 1-star only because i can't leave it at 0. i got this phone over the iphone because of the lack of MMS and QWERTY keypad on the iphone. boy, that was a HUGE mistake. when i initially bought the phone, i had it for only a week and a half when major bugs started showing up. the keypad text only shows up half of the time and it was taking literally 10 minutes to open programs. no joke. then, it started freezing so badly that the only way to shut it off was to remove the battery. during this time frame, i had not downloaded anything that could have disrupted the phone in any way. needless to say, i returned this phone and got a replacement.
the replacement phone was great...for a month and a half. that's when all the issues from the first phone started happening again. with this phone, i refrained from downloading anything, period. all i can say is that this phone sucks big-time.
 I like it July 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I must admit that I hated this fone during the first few days. It was very user-unfriendly. Opening browser involved 3 steps. E-mail syncing was a mess. And the screen shutting down while on call was just plain annoying. But all that was until I stumbled upon few HTC Kaiser tips/tricks forums across the net.
Then I did 3 things to my fone and my impression of it has changed from 1 star to 4 stars :)
- First I uninstalled all the crapware that was loaded by AT&T (Setting > System tab > Clear Storage... this will reboot your device, once the device comes ON, it will start installing the crapware that you want to get rid of... so use your stylus and poke the little hole at the bottom... the system will reboot again... and you have a CLEAN phone now) make sure you backed up your phone book before doing this step though
- Second I installed the "HTCHome" plugin... this made my home screen much easier to navigate and much much prettier to look at
- Third I installed the "Kaiser Tweak" plugin... this will let you enable/disable all the settings in one simple step... you can disable the screen shut-off when making a call :)
And of course, you can install Opera mini anytime to get that iPhonesque surfing capability
The only reason I am not giving this phone 5 stars is because this fone does have a tendency to drop calls for no apparent reason. I used Blackberry 8700c before this (also on AT&T) and it never dropped calls. So I know that poor signal can not be the reason.
But apart from a few dropped calls every now and then - I am loving my new kaiser. It is a very powerful device and I like it. I'm looking forward to install many new hacks/tricks in future.
 phone is great depending on what you need it for. July 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have had very few complaints about this phone. Yes it's a little heavy, but it goes in my pocket so no big deal. I'm not tech-savvy and rarily use it for work. I primarily use it for appointments, e-mail and internet use, games ( bubble breaker is addictive )and of course, cellphone. Like everyone else I agree the ptt button is a waste. ( i'm going to try to reconfigure it ) Battery life isn't the greatest so buy a spare for 12$. I've researched cellphones for about a month before I picked this one.( Loved and wanted a blackberry but was not a fan of a trackball and the keys looked too small. ) The camera needs to be still in order to take a really good picture. I do like office mobile and like the fact it has an optional gps. Also , I love the wifi. The speakerphone works fine. Other reviewers had problems but not me and I use it daily. So much better than the razr! All in all, this phone is for me.
Great Phone July 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
___Beginning Remarks___
I'll present this review in a simple manner, and list the pros and cons and observations in no particular order.
__Review__
The User Interface is very complex, and will take time to learn. Quite the converse if any individual is used to an apple product.
This really isn't terrible, but you'll find yourself becoming aggravated for the first few hours of operation.
Keyboard works well with texting. The keys are pretty crisp, and work well.
There are a whole lot of buttons. You'll find yourself overwhelmed with the amount of buttons, i really appreciate the texting button which makes replying a snap.
The Tilt is a bit sluggish at times. And the startup of the phone is painfully long, you'll find yourself turning on the phone in your pocket just to avoid looking at the loading screens.
Battery life isn't all that great. It lasted me quite a bit, but it's really nothing special. This is a powerful machine and a shorter battery life can be expected.
Syncing Music is simple, drag and drop is a god sent. I'd recommend buying a 2g miniSD if you plan on putting lots of music or movies.
Touch screen really relies on the stylus,although one could use the scroll wheel, and fingers to text without using the stylus.
__3 Cons and Pros__
My 3 Main Cons,
Battery Life (to short)
Startup Time (much to long)
User Interface (to confusing)
My 3 Main Pros,
Expandable Memory
Plenty Of Functions
Texting is Superb
__Conclusion__
Overall if you can look past the main concerns, you'll enjoy this phone. The Tilt really takes some time getting used to, it's very complicated and not recommended for anyone challenged with technology. I'd recommend it over the iPhone3G. Be a pariah, go buy this over the iPhone :]
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