ATTN T-Mo Dash Owners: WinMo 6 is finally here! Oh and don’t worry because this isn’t a Beta version. It’s the real deal holyfield. According to the folks on Howard Forums they haven’t had any problems upgrading so feel free to download and see what all the hoopla is about. But be warned that you will need to download to your computer and upgrade via USB so be sure to back up everything or you will lose content. Anyways, have fun and let us know how it is. Download Now [via Howard Forums via Gadgets on the Go] → Read More
The Dash Express is an Internet-connected GPS device with cellular and and WiFi built-in. It essentially “talks” to other Dash devices and informs other users of traffic issues and allows for point of interest search. You can even send GPS directions to your unit from the house. They’re looking for nation-wide road testers to rock out with the Dash Express for the summer in anticipation of a Fall release. Do you like to drive? Want to know where you’re driving? Want to create a networked GPS system that could gain sentience and drive us all off of cliffs? Well get cracking! Sign-up page → Read More
A while back I received a T-Mobile/HTC Dash to play with and truth be told, it wasn’t too exciting. Windows Mobile is just a crappy OS and until it’s redone completely or undergoes a major overhaul, I really don’t plan on using it…or an HTC phone I suppose. Anyways, this 9-minute long video stars The fat Phat Guy going off on a rant about the Dash. Surprisingly though, he actually addresses both the good and bad points with the Dash. Those of you considering a Dash might want to watch this before you plunk down your hard-earned cash. An angry Dash customer.. [Mobility Today] → Read More
SlingMedia let drop today SlingPlayer Mobile for Smartphones (v1.0.5) and for PocketPC (v1.1). In addition to several bug fixes and tweaksm the smartphone edition features support for the Samsung Blackjack and the T-mo Dash. You can try it out for free for 30 days and after that it’ll cost you $30. Download [via Zatz via Gizmodo] → Read More
We’re closing the polls in an hour, so vote away! The Dash Detox Contest is officially over and here are our six entries made by five entrants. Here’s how we’ll do this. You will vote on each entrant, not their specific entries. Judge on humor, creativity, and usefulness. Who, in this case, is your favorite director. Gaming the system is prohibited, but if you want to get your friends to vote en masse, go ahead. This is supposed to be fun, robot-voting-system writers! The two top winners will receive one of two T-Mobile Dashes I have lying about. Special thanks to T-Mobile with their Dash-a-Day giveaway, which you should also enter. UPDATE – The winners are: jeremywjones – stop cell phone use: use a nagging wife rGoodwin – Blair Dash and 30 Days {democracy:2} → Read More
This is our second try for this whole thing. Looks like our polling system is screwed up, so here we go: a new poll. I’ll be adding the previous votes in a moment. We’re closing the polling at noon EST tomorrow. The Dash Detox Contest is officially over and here are our six entries made by five entrants. Here’s how we’ll do this. You will vote on each entrant, not their specific entries. Judge on humor, creativity, and usefulness. Who, in this case, is your favorite director. Gaming the system is prohibited, but if you want to get your friends to vote en masse, go ahead. This is supposed to be fun, robot-voting-system writers! The two top winners will receive one of two T-Mobile Dashes I have lying about. Special thanks to T-Mobile with their Dash-a-Day giveaway, which you should also enter. {democracy:2} → Read More
The Dash Detox Contest is officially over and here are our six entries made by five entrants. Here’s how we’ll do this. You will vote on each entrant, not their specific entries. Judge on humor, creativity, and usefulness. Who, in this case, is your favorite director. Gaming the system is prohibited, but if you want to get your friends to vote en masse, go ahead. This is supposed to be fun, robot-voting-system writers! The two top winners will receive one of two T-Mobile Dashes I have lying about. Special thanks to T-Mobile with their Dash-a-Day giveaway, which you should also enter. → Read More
Looks like this is a three horse race, kids. We just got this in from rgoodwin, a charming young man recreating a famous scene from a film I actually paid to watch way back when and now regret. Remember: view these videos early and often and we’ll pick a winner on Monday. Nagging Wife Jango Read on for the rules… → Read More
Clearly we ask too much of our dear readers in regards to video production. Two folks entered the Dash contest and it looks like two folks will win it – I have two of them lying around here, so those boys are doubly lucky. If you’d still like to enter, feel free, but we’re closing the contest next Monday morning. Read on for the rules… → Read More
Our second Dash Detox Contest entrant created a late night infomercial, complete with a chipper announcer and the voice of a shrieking harpy out to steal your immortal soul. Rules: I am not allowed to use a cellphone for one month. I need you to hop on your web cam and record a one minute video telling me to be strong. Or if you’re sadistic like Blake, feel free to taunt me with some hot cell phone action—since I’m not getting any. Record your video. Upload it to YouTube with the tag “crunchgeardash” and email a link for the video to contest@crunchgear.com. The five entries with the most views by Monday, Nov. 20 will appear on the site and the readers will vote on the winner on Nov. 21. → Read More
Amazing. Our first entry in the Dash giveaway is from Jango Fett, who suggest that if I pick up a cellphone he’ll blast me. Thanks, dude. I feel much better now. Just to recap: I am not allowed to use a cellphone for one month. I need you to hop on your web cam and record a one minute video telling me to be strong. Or if you’re sadistic like Blake, feel free to taunt me with some hot cell phone action—since I’m not getting any. Record your video. Upload it to YouTube with the tag “crunchgeardash” and email a link for the video to contest@crunchgear.com. The five entries with the most views by Monday, Nov. 20 will appear on the site and the readers will vote on the winner on Nov. 21. → Read More
Smartphones Now is a special group of features by CrunchGear writers on the latest smartphones available – or soon to be available – in the US. In this installment, we review the T-Mobile Dash. As smartphones make their way into the mainstream, we’re reminded why they were long relegated to the hip holsters of Road Warriors and the hopelessly email-obsessed. Their operating systems, with rare exceptions, were too overpowered for the average consumer, their set-up screens were convoluted, and their price tags were stratospheric when compared to the average clamshell. Read the rest of this entry » → Read More
, is now available at T-Mobile’s website for $199 after a $50 mail-in rebate. We hate mail-in rebates. Anyway, for those T-Mo fans waiting for a QWERTY alternative to the Treo, today is your day. The Windows Mobile-sporting, WiFi enabled smartphone should also be in stock at your local T-Mobile store. T-Mobile Dash [T-Mobile] → Read More
As smartphones make their way into the mainstream, we’re reminded why they were long relegated to the hip holsters of Road Warriors and the hopelessly email-obsessed. Their operating systems, with rare exceptions, were too overpowered for the average consumer, their set-up screens were convoluted, and their price tags were stratospheric when compared to the average clamshell. T-Mobile knows something the rest of the carriers apparently don’t. They know that data in the form of email and IM is probably one of the best ways to sell 3G service to high school kids, soccer moms, and the rest of the demographics who once thought they needed a QWERTY keyboard like a hole in the head. Look at their current offerings – the SideKick 3, the Pearl, and now the Dash. These phones are aimed squarely at the folks who are interested in this whole BlackBerry thing but don’t want to get their office IT department involved just to read a few email messages. The Dash, manufactured by HTC for T-Mobile, is a Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone that is about as thin as the Motorola Q and includes quite a few user friendly features. Full disclosure: I don’t like Windows Mobile 5.0, but that bias isn’t enough to dissuade me from reviewing what otherwise is an excellent, slim, smartphone. → Read More
Engadget has scored a scoop giving details on the forthcoming T-Mobile Dash, including the launch date, set for October 16. You’ll recall our coverage of the Dash from a couple weeks ago. It’s T-Mobile’s answer to Verizon’s Motorola Q. It’s also their branding of the HTC Excalibur, a qwerty-sporting, Windows Mobile 5-toting smartphone. It’s aimed at “family-focused working individuals who are trying to master a busy life,” meaning those who aren’t up to a full-on MDA-style smartphone, but need more than a Trace, dig us? Engadget’s got a few more details, but other than the date, it’s nothing we didn’t really know before, and still no word on pricing, but look for it at around the $200 mark, as that’s what Verizon is peddling the Q at. T-Mobile leaks Dash docs, October 16th confirmed [Engadget Mobile] → Read More
, this GSM-flavored Windows Mobile 5-sporting smartphone is aimed directly at the Motorola Q from Verizon. But here in the good ol’ US-of-A, the Cosmo will be called the Dash, and will be offered by our friends over at T-Mobile. For those not in-the-know, the Dash will have 64/128MB built-in RAM, Windows Mobile 5: Smartphone Edition, a 320×240 screen (non-touch), and a full QWERTY keypad. The Dash is small and slim, unlike my ex-girlfriends. This offering, along with the Pearl, really beefs up T-Mobile’s business/smartphone line-up. There’s a little something for everyone here (except for us Treo fans, *ahem*), making T-Mobile a real force in high-end service (finally). Look for the Dash to drop here within the next month and a half. No word yet on whether Cingularites will have a version, but HTC likes to keep things copacetic with their GSM lovers, so it’s entirely possible. T-Mobile Dash [Modaco] → Read More
and I’m actually quite enthused. The company’s current release is fairly lean on details, but Lego filled me in on some of the broader details of his company’s new product. Dash has actually been around for about three years and is now launching a consumer product for release in Summer, 2007. The company will be showing a sample at DEMOfall on September 26 and is also working on beta tests in California and New York. The product is a mix of device and software, and will first emerge as a small, in-car product that connects to Dash.net via cellular or Wi-Fi. The device has a GPS system built-in as well as real-time traffic information, and can communicate with other devices on the road, creating a mesh network of Dash users. Lego calls their software a “55 mph user interface” so it won’t have email or browsing features in its first iteration. Instead, it will anonymously report speed and location on an exception basis, which means that when you’re stuck on a highway going 1 mph, the device will report a traffic jam and help others route around it. Too bad for you, though. The product will supply traffic information, destinations, nearby service locations, and weather as well as “all the kind of stuff you could imagine,” said Lego. What that is and what the device will look like are still under wraps, but we’re pretty stoked. GPS devices are fairly dumb machines, designed to get you from point A to point B in a perfect world devoid of bad drivers and deer. This product promises real time updates and some innovative mesh networking technology that just might bring something brand new to the table. Product Page [Dash.net] → Read More
