Chris Leckness

Reviewer: Andy Mason (Warthog)
Product: HTC Mogul
Manufacturer: HTC
Price: MSRP, $499.00 (discount available with service plan)

My only previous experience with any type of a smartphone was using a Palm Treo 680.  The Palm OS was okay, but after a few months I switched back to carrying a cell phone for calls and my Dell x51v with WM5 for everything else.  I don't like carrying cell phone and a PDA, but I haven't found a converged device I like.  It always seemed to me that I had to choose between having a good PDA and poor cell phone or good cell phone and poor PDA.  Now, at this point, you may be screaming at your monitor, "Where have you been, lately, Mason?  There have a number of really good converged devices released in the past 1-2 years!"  Okay, I admit I don't visit the local phone store very often.  I have a good excuse, though - I am a Verizon customer.   Although Verizon offers good service coverage in my area, they are notorious for being one of the last service providers to offer the newest phones.  The good news is when I do go to the Verizon store there is little temptation to buy the latest and greatest phone so I can stay on the bleeding edge of technology.  The bad news is that by the time Verizon offers the current models of Windows Mobile phones, they will be one or two generations old!!

Okay, enough bashing of my service provider.  When I was offered the chance to review a current generation Windows Mobile device I jumped at the chance.  I received the HTC Mogul, with the Qwest branding.  It runs on the Alltel network in my area. 

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Conclusion: It doesn’t have the tilt screen or the built-in GPSr like the AT&T 8525 but, as a Verizon customer, I can take consolation that my service provider will do all that it can to make a device with those specs available to me sometime in 2010!

:icon_rofl Got to love that Verizon product update policy.
Great review Warthog. Are you sure about that PowerPoint editing thing though? I thought we could just view PP slides in Office Mobile.

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You are right about the PPT function, DP. Good catch. I should have worded that more clearly. The article has been edited accordingly.