Are you kidding me? Have you used the desktop interface at all? If you're referring to your tmail account, it can't be accessed from a laptop anyway (other than via Desktop Interface) so no matter what you're forced to forward those emails to another account if you want them outside of the DI or your hiptop. This email was never intended to be multi-purpose all use pop3.
You also can configure up to three other accounts (I prefer to use IMAP) that, even if you use pop3, will leave messages on the server if you check the option during setup. That way, you can download your messages on the hiptop and then later on a laptop or desktop computer if you want them in both places. As an aside, you also can set up your email client on your desktop or notebook to do the same.
Also, in reference to your address book, if you access it via the Desktop Interface there are several ways to export the data:
Microsoft Outlook for PC (.txt file)
Microsoft Outlook Express for Mac (.txt file)
Microsoft Entourage for Mac (.txt file)
Palm Desktop for PC (.txt/.tab file)
Palm Desktop for Mac (.txt/.tab file)
It's not sync, but your data isn't unretrievably lost forever like people seem to be claiming.
Well technically the new hiptop will have a "dialer" overlay on the keyboard to allieviate the awkwardness of dialing. I REALLY don't like the wheel dial. That's one of the things that really bugs me because it makes checking your voice mail difficult.
Existing T-Mobile users who have been with the company for a year are typically eligible for the "new customer" discount when they upgrade their phones. I'm fairly sure this is what they will apply to new customers although I don't have hard fact to back that up. I did buy a nokia long before my first year contract with T-Mobile ended and I received the new customer rebate deal. That should be a good indicator.
The people who get free stuff from Danger are friends of the guy who mods hiptop.com. He, by the way, doesn't get paid to mod those forums. His payment is by way of goodies sent to him and the satisfaction of.. well actually it seems to me to be an extremely nerve wrecking task. He occasionally distributes them to his friends in #hiptop when he has no need for them. All in all, I think that's much more noble than, say, selling them on ebay and profiting on the gifts.
With one catch that if you push too much data (in 2 years I've become one hell of a thumb typer) you can crash the radio. Sitting there waiting for it to reconnect/recover can get a little bit annoying at times, especially when it happens over and over again. I realize that by using line entry mode you have this problem much less often, but line entry mode completely disables the use of control and meta.
I am really hoping that this is resolved with the new device.
Your data is stored on your sim and on the tmobile desktop interface. As well, you have free handset replacements for defects that *you* didn't cause for an entire year. All you have to do is take the sim out and then pop it in the replacement hiptop and you're good to go. All your data will be there.
I admit that I've been through several hiptops in the last 2 years, some by my fault and some by the fault of the manufacturer, but I've NEVER lost my data.
They've been promising to develop it, but they haven't actually said it's been developed like they have this time.
Coming soon is different from listing it as part of the features of the device.
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actually that may just be for import and not export which is slightly annoying
Are you kidding me? Have you used the desktop interface at all? If you're referring to your tmail account, it can't be accessed from a laptop anyway (other than via Desktop Interface) so no matter what you're forced to forward those emails to another account if you want them outside of the DI or your hiptop. This email was never intended to be multi-purpose all use pop3. You also can configure up to three other accounts (I prefer to use IMAP) that, even if you use pop3, will leave messages on the server if you check the option during setup. That way, you can download your messages on the hiptop and then later on a laptop or desktop computer if you want them in both places. As an aside, you also can set up your email client on your desktop or notebook to do the same. Also, in reference to your address book, if you access it via the Desktop Interface there are several ways to export the data: Microsoft Outlook for PC (.txt file) Microsoft Outlook Express for Mac (.txt file) Microsoft Entourage for Mac (.txt file) Palm Desktop for PC (.txt/.tab file) Palm Desktop for Mac (.txt/.tab file) It's not sync, but your data isn't unretrievably lost forever like people seem to be claiming.
Well technically the new hiptop will have a "dialer" overlay on the keyboard to allieviate the awkwardness of dialing. I REALLY don't like the wheel dial. That's one of the things that really bugs me because it makes checking your voice mail difficult.
Existing T-Mobile users who have been with the company for a year are typically eligible for the "new customer" discount when they upgrade their phones. I'm fairly sure this is what they will apply to new customers although I don't have hard fact to back that up. I did buy a nokia long before my first year contract with T-Mobile ended and I received the new customer rebate deal. That should be a good indicator.
The people who get free stuff from Danger are friends of the guy who mods hiptop.com. He, by the way, doesn't get paid to mod those forums. His payment is by way of goodies sent to him and the satisfaction of.. well actually it seems to me to be an extremely nerve wrecking task. He occasionally distributes them to his friends in #hiptop when he has no need for them. All in all, I think that's much more noble than, say, selling them on ebay and profiting on the gifts.
With one catch that if you push too much data (in 2 years I've become one hell of a thumb typer) you can crash the radio. Sitting there waiting for it to reconnect/recover can get a little bit annoying at times, especially when it happens over and over again. I realize that by using line entry mode you have this problem much less often, but line entry mode completely disables the use of control and meta. I am really hoping that this is resolved with the new device.
Your data is stored on your sim and on the tmobile desktop interface. As well, you have free handset replacements for defects that *you* didn't cause for an entire year. All you have to do is take the sim out and then pop it in the replacement hiptop and you're good to go. All your data will be there. I admit that I've been through several hiptops in the last 2 years, some by my fault and some by the fault of the manufacturer, but I've NEVER lost my data.
They've been promising to develop it, but they haven't actually said it's been developed like they have this time. Coming soon is different from listing it as part of the features of the device.