A phone you can dance to; the Samsung UpStage™ is so unique, you have to see it (and hear it) to believe it. On one side, it’s a slim, stylish Samsung phone with Stereo Bluetooth® Wireless Technology and a 1.3 megapixel camera. On the other side, it’s a slim, stylish Samsung music player with touch-sensitive media controls and a stereo speaker. Either way, it’s a phone you’ll flip over.

Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: M620
• Released on: 2007-04-09

Features

• Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with sliding QWERTY keyboard for easy input
• Access Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity and connect to open Wi-Fi networks (802.11b/g)
• 2.8-inch color TFT reorients itself automatically depending on how you hold the phone
• Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and music headphones; MicroSD expansion and USB connectivity
• Includes: Li-Ion Battery, AC Travel Charger and Leather Holster

Product Description
Leave the laptop behind and stay connected and productive wherever you roam with the HTC Mogul PPC-6800 Smartphone, the newest Windows Mobile 6 Professional Edition device from Sprint. The successor to the popular Sprint PPC-6700, the HTC Mogul has a surprise waiting up its sleeve: just slide the top of the phone sideways to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. And the new Windows Mobile 6 operating system enables you to view and edit Word and Excel documents as well as provides instant message capabilities via Windows Live Messenger. (See more details about Windows Mobile 6 below.) The included Outlook Mobile software offers up-to-date e-mail, calendar and contact information.

The HTC Mogul slides open sideways to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, and the screen reorients itself depending on how you hold the phone..
It operates on Sprint’s North American CDMA voice network, as well as on Sprint’s Mobile Broadband Network (EV-DO), which enables you to quickly access audio, video and data applications as well as connect directly to your office’s network. (This phone will also be the first handset from Sprint that will support EV-DO Rev. A data speeds via a free software upgrade that will be made available at a later date.) Other features include built-in Wi-Fi capability, Bluetooth connectivity (for headsets and stereo headphones), 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, and MicroSD memory card expansion.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, the HTC Mogul is fully compatible with Sprint’s Power Vision service. With Power Vision, you can download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Enjoy full-color video clips or live TV of the latest news, sports, and entertainment from brands you know, like CNN, Fox, The Weather Channel, NFL Mobile, and more. Power Vision also serves as a portal for enhanced games. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. Sprint Power Vision also enables faster Web browsing and Internet email access. At launch, the Mogul supports EV-DO Rev. 0 data speeds on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, and it will be able to take advantage of increased data speeds when Sprint provides support for EV-DO Rev. A technology on the device via a free software upgrade.

Sprint’s music service is another EV-DO-powered service that makes the M510 all the more desirable. With the Sprint Music Store, your phone is a music player, letting you buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song–one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that’s right for you. You can even pause to take a call without missing a beat.Surprisingly svelte and easily pocketable, the HTC Mogul weighs under 6 ounces and measures just 0.73 inches thin.
Features
The sliding keyboard provides a familiar interface and allows for quick and efficient input of information, and the slide-to-hide form factor eliminates bulkiness for a sleek and stylish design. It measures just 0.73 inches thin and weighs a svelte 5.8 ounces. The 2.8-inch color touchscreen transreflective TFT screen automatically orients itself depending on how you hold the phone (i.e., from portrait to landscape and back again). It displays 65,000 colors and has a 320 x 240-pixel resolution.

In addition to supporting EV-DO wireless broadband networking, the Mogul also features Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), which enables you to use open wireless networks at airports and coffee shops. This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking–surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server–using Sprint’s Mobile Broadband Network. And when connected to a Bluetooth headset, caller information for incoming calls will be spoken through the Bluetooth device. Decide to answer the call without ever looking at your phone.

The 2-megapixel autofocus camera (with up to 8x digital zoom) on the back of the Mogul captures images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels (good enough for prints up to 8 x 10 inches). You can make such camera adjustments as white balance and exposure metering, choose from resolution modes (such as sports for fast-moving action) as well as use of the integrated flash, and set a self-timer of either 2 or 10 seconds. Additionally, the Wing can capture video with or without audio (in MPEG-4, 3GPP2, or H.263 format, the latter being best for sending via MMS). You can also play back audio and video files downloaded from the Internet or sent to you via email using the integrated Windows Media Player.

Other features include:

• Included memory: 256 MB ROM (163 MB user accessible); 64 MB RAM (49 MB user accessible)
• Instantly send and receive SMS Text Messages across the room or across the country.
• Updated ActiveSync technology (version 4.0) offers one of the best PC to mobile device sync experiences, making it easier to configure with faster data transfer and sync accuracy.
• Includes an on-device link to the Sprint PCS Software Store provided by Handango, where you can find, download and buy software, games, ringtones, graphics and other Windows Mobile Pocket PC applications simply and securely.
• Hands-free operation of your phone is made easy with the built-in speakerphone, allowing you to take a conference call virtually anywhere
• Stereo Headset jack for handsfree op
  eration and music enjoyment.

Vital Statistics
The HTC Mogul weighs 5.8 ounces and measures 4.33 x 2.32 x 0.73 inches. Its 1500 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.1 hours of talk time. It runs on the CDMA 850/1900 frequencies, as well as the EV-DO data network. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6

Windows Mobile 6 adds power to your mobile office with up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars. Edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on your phone, just as you would on your desktop/laptop PC.

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 updates the Windows Mobile 5 platform with a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.

With Windows Mobile 6, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC’s Microsoft Office suite. You’ll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting–without affecting tables, images or text–as well as view PowerPoint presentations.

• Microsoft Office Word Mobile features include spell-check, Find and Replace commands, bulleted lists, text formatting, and support for tables for the first time.
• With Excel Mobile, youÕre not just confined to editing charts: with the new Chart Wizard you can create charts quickly and easily.
• PowerPoint Mobile allows you to view the full presentation, rehearse timings, check the order and any live links you may have in your presentation. You can then email comments back to the team or communicate via MSN Messenger for an immediate response.
• After creating or editing a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can synchronize it with your PC and it will automatically be converted to the PC version.

All Windows Mobile 6 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.

Customer Reviews

tries to do too much and succeeds at frustrating you…
I bought this 6 months ago, and initially I was aware of certain complaints that it was quirky and would freeze on occasion. The attraction of all of the capability it offered, the ability to take quality photos, to stream the net, GPS functionality, google maps, read pdf files, work on microsoft word documents, the keyboard and the touchscreen pushed me to it.

Those features are neat when they work, I thought I would be on the net more than I was, considering that the majority of the net offers flash content which the mogul doesnt support means a slow and dumbed down experience, you will eventually find that all you really use it for is to send and receive email. The quirkiness is beyond frustrating, its not just a few moments that you have to wait, its the fact that you have to manually pull the stylus out and close out applications that are opened.

And thats just the beginning. At one point with it I was so upset I had to violently lash out and physically strike a notepad I had laying around repeatedly when i mistakingly left a box checked while “synching” my contacts from another email acount with the phone and inadvertently erased all of my phone numbers. There was no warning for that, no way to know that was the consequence, and Im not the only one that this has happened to.

Another moment I wanted to hit something was when for some stupid reason i was unable to stream satellite radio through the internet feature as I usually was able to. After HOURS and Im talking HOURS of research on the net I found that the culprit was a microsoft word document that had been created, and for no other reason than that.

The phone will freeze up on you at least twice a day, no big deal right? It takes 5 minutes to boot up! WTF? Youre out of touch with the world because you have a phone that tries too hard to be a laptop. I have wasted so much time with this, and I have been so frustrated with it. I have come to within a threads distance from throwing this phone at a wall as hard as I can. If you value your happiness, do not allow yourself to be frustrated with this device, it needs to return to the drawing boards and the kinks need to be ironed out big time.

I have reached my limit with it. Having turned off my data plan with sprint because I cant justify the $35. extra a month for the ability to check my email on the go, I dont use any of the features, I dont like having to pull the stylus out to tap the touchscreens numbers as though I were a surgeon at an operating table. Dial a number in the car? Dont even try it!

So today, the end of my relationship with this device, I tried to make a word document, and then upload it onto my pc. I initially tried to locate the file through the tethered connection, activesynch, nothing. So I pulled out the storge card, and put that in a card reader. Found what appeared to be a file but all that will display in Word on the pc is something in klingon. I am prompted to choose a script, I have a microsoft script for every language to choose from, after trying vietnamese and a few others I realize that an hour has passed!

Between pulling the data card out of the phone and plugging and unplugging the usb cable and everything else my heartrate picked up, i actually had to stop and rationally count to ten taking deep breaths after a bit of this. I really, really just wanted to hit this phone at this point. I have decided to sell it on ebay, pray that youre one those that is in the market for a PDA phone that happens to read this before perusing ebay for one.

I should do the right thing and walk to the end of the earth and throw this piece of crap back to the gods like the protagonist from “the gods must be crazy” felt he had to do with the coke bottle.

Everyone gets this phone and owns it for a few weeks or a month and is initially impressed with it, ask the owners that have had it for more than a few months, they will tell you, it is unreliable, quirky, and the features become a novelty, in the end all you want to do is make phone calls with it, and to do that youre required to have both of your hands free to extract the stylus from the phone, and then carefully press the teeny weeny numbers on the screen, then return the stylus. And its weight and heft become appar
ent at this point, I am getting rid of this phone and getting a flip open phone that I can just flip open with my thumb and with one hand dial numbers and return the phone to my pocket where it will fit comfortably when Im done. And the battery on said phone will last longer than 8 hours, and the phone wont freeze.

Total piece of crap, take heed.

//UPDATE// 30 July 2008

So I had just written this review, and today I was in the middle of composing a lengthy text message when the phone received a text message. That was enough to freeze it, and force me to pull out the stylus and do a soft reset and lose the message I was working on. The phone booted back up and I went back to sending the text message having to start all over again. Then on its own, while I was in the middle of the text message a display appeared stating that I the phone was trying to synch with the pc and it wasnt even connected! I tried to stop whatever it was doing but it wouldnt respond, so again I had to do a soft reset, this time it was taking quite some time to boot back up, the HTC logo appeared and then below it said “radio intereference” or something. Again I had to do a soft reset, the HTC “smart mobility” logo would appear but then nothing. Again soft reset, nothing. Remove batter, ok logo back on then nothing. Plug phone into power, red light. Not good.

So after all of this, this phone finally kicked the bucket when it tried to compose and receive a text message. What a joke. 6 months, thats a short lifespan. Miraculously, a customer service rep was nice enough to agree to send me a free phone of my choosing, the only model I could think of with a qwerty keyboard and one that didnt try to reinvent the wheel was the lg rumor. So thats coming and this piece of junk is going back to sprint so the mad scientists can figure out what all the fuss is.

Do your homework, do some research, google keywords such as “battery life”, red light battery dead, freezing, problems, etc. Not a good phone, dont do it.

It’s junk!
My boss gave me this thing to do my job, and I absolutely HATE IT!
This PDA is SO BAD. No headphone port. What jackass makes a POCKET PC that’s capable of playing MP3 and intenret radio with no HEADPHONE PORT!?!

HTC Mogul/PPC-6800
I have had my mogul for about a week now, and I like it for the most part.
as usual, i’ll start with the bad things.

CONS:
1. my biggest complaint, and this is probably b/c i’m just switching from Nextel is that the speaker volume sucks.
2. Too many stinking blinking lights on the darn thing. Green, orange?? Blue??!! why do they have to blink?? it reminds me of those blinking coupon generators at the grocery store, trying to grab your attention..that, or an airplane. It’d be better just to have a green for full charge, yellow for medium and red for time to charge up.
3. short battery life. I am used to leaving my phone on overnight (i work midnight to eight) in the car, but i have to turn it off now. i’ve learned some tricks like making sure the accept beams is turned off, and that there are no programs running, and the wifi switch is turned off.
4. Another bad thing about the phone is that sometimes, you don’t know, but it’s calling someone. One night, I called in to work. Next thing i know, i look at my call history, and i called work three more times. OOps. Also, and i’m glad that there is text to voice text messaging for landlines; however, i saw that my text message that I sent to a certain phone number had been sent (twice, so two different messages). I looked up the phone number, and I apparently had text messaged the local chilis restaurant. I have them as a contact as I like ordering the curbside pickup, but it did weird me out to know that I was inadvertently texting them. I guess it dials while the phone is in my pocket, and I accidentally hit some keys or something.

Good things:
1. this is my first smart device since i made the mistake and bought the i930. it totally blows that out of the water, and you can download things to the phone, and it’s upgradeable as well.
2. my phone came with the newest upgrade, so i didn’t have to upgrade yet. the guy that says he needed a bluetooth gps adapter is wrong. i know that sprint navigation/telenav states that the phone does, but that must have been before the software update. it will pinpoint exactly where i am, along with displaying a map, and even saying the street names.
3. i love being able to use my own mp3 files as ringtones. too bad the speaker sucks.

all in all, i like the phone very much. I especially like the sprint navigation as I can find phone number a lot quicker than even using the internet. Like i said, i’ve had this phone a week, and it still does things that i haven’t figured out yet. i recommend that anyone who buys this phone buy and download the photo contacts pro. it offers you so much more flexibility with the phone than the software that comes with the phone.

25 May 2008: One other thing that I would like to add, and this is for Johnny Law too. I went to Orlando, and I tried to use the resorts wifi access for my laptop, but the signal was way too weak. So, I called Sprint, asked them to change my data package to the phone as a modem to try my luck that way. I was scared b/c I had never used my phone as a modem, and I figured that it’d be extremely difficult. If you are using Vista, you just plug the phone in using the active sync usb cable that is provided with the phone, and on the phone, go to start/program/internet sharing/use usb, and at the bottom, hit connect. the laptop finished everything by adding a driver, and it connected flawlessly. My friend that I’m on vacation with, doesn’t have any sprint software on her laptop, but it was just plug it in, and internet share on the phone, and she was on the internet too. I just thought that was pretty cool. I’m not trying to incite anything, and i’m not a microsoft/sprint fanboy either.

*********23 July 08…Be advised that there is a new rom update for the mogul which changes it to windows mobile professional 6.1 and also adds Sprint TV. you can find this information at the HTC mogul update homepage.

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