Taking a Tour of the T-Mobile Dash 3G

Also known as the HTC Snap, the T-Mobile Dash 3G is HTC’s latest Windows Mobile Standard based device. It’s the first messenger style device since the original Dash was released all those years ago. The Snap features a much faster 528MHz processor, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a Trackball for navigation, 256MB ROM / 192MB RAM, 2.0 Megapixel camera, Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, a 2.4 inch screen, and weighing in at 4.23 ounces. Besides the physical specs, the device comes loaded with Office Mobile, Google Maps, Live Search, QuickGPS, TeleNav, a YouTube client, T-Mobile My Account application, a number of IM applications, and some video and camera utilities.

There’s a couple things I noticed right away. First, the scroll speed on the trackball by default, is slower than I would have liked. I changed it from Normal to Fast and that made it more responsive. The other thing that caught my attention is the mouse pointer that appears when you open IE Mobile. I changed the speed of the trackball for IE as well, but still found the trackball to be very unresponsive in IE Mobile. Once you learn that the trackball doesn’t support diagonal motion, you start to get better response out of it. At that point, two swipes would get me all the way across the screen. [ ..Read More.. ]