April 19th, 2008
T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus Review by pcadvisor
No CommentsThe T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus’s soft rubber casing and thick silver band spanning its circumference are certainly familiar, as is the 2Mp camera round the back.

The T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus’s soft rubber casing and thick silver band spanning its circumference are certainly familiar, as is the 2Mp camera round the back.

One of the best features on the Touch Plus is the shortcut menu that presents itself as soon as you slide the device open.

T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus Cell Phone
Featuring a TouchFLO touch screen and sliding keyboard, the MDA Touch Plus offers fast 3G-and-then-some connectivity on T-Mobile’s HSDPA network. It also comes with a 2 mega-pixel camera and 1GB microSD card so you can store up to 1000 photos.
T-Mobile MDA Compact III Collection Fans:
The Compact III is very user friendly. Control the cursor with the miniature trackball and use its silver dial as a scroll wheel. Keeping up with your emails is simple and you can surf the internet with web’n’walk. It has 128MB of internal memory and a microSD card slot for expansion, plus a two mega-pixel digital camera with digital zoom and video capture, Windows Media player, FM radio, Bluetooth and USB cable connectivity.
T-Mobile worked with Microsoft and HTC, which manufactures the device, to refresh the primary interface to complement the handset’s physical attributes.

Navigation was made easier with the scrolling d-pad. The scroll wheel comes in handy when you want to quickly scroll through websites, or adjust the volume in Windows Media Player 10.

For a slim slider running a sophisticated OS like WM6, the T-Mobile Shadow offered pretty good performance. The 201-MHz processor allowed us to listen to our tunes while loading a news story on CNN.com Mobile about the Red Sox sweeping the Rockies.

The T-Mobile Sidekick Slide comes packaged with an AC adapter, a USB cable, a belt holster, a wired headset, and reference material. For more add-ons for the Slide, please check out our cell phone accessories, ringtones, and help page.

As a phone, the Slide has acceptable audio but poor reception, masked somewhat by falsely reporting reception bars when the device can’t connect calls.

Smaller size means smaller screen and keyboard, not a fair trade. Calls faded in and out. Lacks key multimedia features and accessories. EDGE networking is slow, lacks capabilities customers might enjoy in a Sidekick device.
