Can You Hear Me Now?

Good! I just upgraded from the ATT/HTC 8525 to the ATT/HTC 8925 or the Tilt. Why do you ask? Simple. As much as I loved the 8525, every time I sent a multimedia message (frequently), it accessed the data network to send and then stay connected. I don’t want to spend $39.99 a month for a data plan when there is free wifi everywhere in town. ATT kept charging me and I would call/complain and the charges credited back to me and dropped. Good. They also sent a replacement 8525 to fix the issue except…

The replacement failed the same way and we were back to square one. After two phone calls totaling 3 hrs (not a joke) and 2 weeks, I have a phone upgrade and it is a few steps up from the very nice 8525.

Features included:

• All-in-one device for simultaneous voice, data, and email
• Large tilting touch screen, slideout keyboard and Wi-Fi
• 3G fast wireless broadband connectivity and speed
• Microsoft Windows® Mobile 6 Professional with Vista compatibility (flawless in my testing)
• global with tri-band UMTS/HSDPA & quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Stereo Bluetooth® 2.0 – Use voice, data, and accessories simultaneously
• Next generation processor for 3G fast wireless broadband connectivity
• Music player, AT&T Mobile Music, and Cellular Video capabilities
• Instant Messaging – Yahoo!®, AOL®, & Windows Live(TM) Messenger
• Sliding QWERTY keyboard with trackwheel for easy navigation
• Microsoft Office® Mobile -Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (works with my Office 2007!)
• 3 MP camera with 10x digital zoom, panoramic shooting, sport shooting and editing!!
• Multiple messaging capabilities – Text, picture and video messaging
• microSD expansion supports up to 2 GB potential expandable memory ( I use almost all of this space up already!)
• Integrated Wi-Fi (802.11 b.g) capabilities
• Tethers to your laptop as a high-speed modem
• Push to Talk capable for instant communication (meh)
• Built-in GPS for use with Telenav GPS Navigator(TM) Oh hells yeah I love this
• Voice command and voice dialing

I’m starting to use a lot of 3rd party apps that I download to my phone that I’ll cover soon but this phone makes my heart happy even though ATT customer service is the suck.