Last night I finally broke down and bought a PDA phone – the XV6700 from Verizon Wireless. Basically my new position will have me on the road a lot, so I needed a phone which could sync with Exchange, have Bluetooth, and most importantly has a decent keyboard.
So far I am very impressed with the phone. It’s a larger form factor then the tiny cell phones I’m use to carrying, but much smaller than a lot of the Pocket PC phones I’ve seen in the past. I bought it just before we went out to dinner, and before our food came I was able to set up the ActiveSync with our Exchange server without any instructions or guides. And it worked.
I also set it up to check one of my POP accounts, and again, it worked like a charm.
It has EVDO, and in browsing several sites last night, it works great. Very fast, and easy to use. I haven’t figured out how to get Flash movies to play (mainly so I could pull up Taco Town! which you really should check out if you haven’t seen that SNL skit), but I think it’s just a matter of time.
I’m somewhat nervous because I don’t have the best track history with phones. The insurance protection definately went on this one. ;) But hopefully I can figure out how to keep it in my hands.
Oh, and even though it supports bluetooth, I couldn’t bring myself to by the borg-like bluetooth headset-ear attachment thing. Yeah, I know, it’s the cool thing to have if your phone has bluetooth, but I’m going to wait to see if I can get away from using it.
So, all in all, I’m very happy with the phone so far, and am very glad I made the decision.