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.
Read on for the rules…
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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…
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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]
, and a full QWERTY keypad. The Dash is small and slim, unlike my ex-girlfriends.</p>
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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]
No screenshots yet, but Dash Navigation is offering to change the way we drive to work by offering… hold on, where’s that press release… “Dash saves drivers significant time and enables them to find and explore new destinations. Dash will not only deliver real-time and relevant information to the car, but also create a network of drivers who help each other avoid traffic and share information about their destinations.”
What this all means to you and me isn’t very clear, but we’re sure it’s going to be amazing. I’ve put in an interview request so we’ll get to the bottom of this strange, wonderful product/service/implant/suppository.
Release [Dash.net]
T-Mobile Dash [T-Mobile]
