Gadgetory

hi this is adam lane with pocket now calm and we've got the new t-mobile dash 3g right here where this is going to be a hardware tour now if you saw the review of the snap you'll see lot of similarities we have a trackball rounded buttons here however there is no inner circle button this is a customizable shortcut key instead and you'll also notice the keyboard layout is a little bit different normally on these core teeth um boards you see keyboards are all straight aligned buttons like that and usually you got the cue and am uh all the way on the left but as Brandon pointed out with a snap there's a tab key here which made you know you're used to having the queue in the a right there unlined but that made it kind of weird with the dash 3g the a is all the way to the left and you also notice that the keys are offset you know they're not aligned straight which is very similar to a normal keyboard so you have qaz it's kind of at a diagonal whereas this one it goes Q and then the a goes to the left and lezzies way over here I was kind of put off by the shift key being here but if you look at a real keyboard it's where it's supposed to be because you know these other palm devices always have the function key there so it's you know different but whether it's good or bad you got to get used to it the calm over here that's good period direct access to those keys you have a 2.4 inch screen up here it's 320 x 240 qvga your speaker grill an LED light in a ambient light sensor up there a microphone down here you got your left softkey home key back key right soft key sometimes I could confuse as to which one is over you know the soft key when trying to use it one-handed without looking just got to remember where it were there and on the side we have while up and down where it's really well much better than the old dash with the finger slide your plane over do on the side over here we have a flap that covers up the extended USB port and it really sucks having it over here because when you're in the car I want to plug it into the car into the stereo got this big adapter sticking out on the side that's pain I also hate the flat book t-mobile seems to look adding the slap on the bottom we got nothing you got a leonardo backs a 2 megapixel camera and another external speaker and here's another hard thing this whole back is all very flush it doesn't slide so it's very difficult to open you have to get in there and kind of pry it but this piece is very thin too so it's very difficult to open but I found if you put a penny in and twist it that'll do it so there you go here's your battery better comes out like that and under here is the sim card you have a little latch that locks it in and then right there is the microSD slot so you do have to take off this cover every time you want to switch your SIM card or micro SD card and it's a real pain and look we have a penny and you know the trick so there we are