Initially, the phone is excellent. I had chose this phone with the audio jack over the normal myTouch 3G for the sheer fact of being able to listen to music with headphones in, however, battery life does not seem to last long.
As a phone, battery life is just fine, but once you start using applications, 3G/WiFi network, or install another 'desktop' (such as ADW), the life of the battery drains down surprisingly fast. Less than a day between full charges.
The display is excellent, bright colors, vivid.
Camera taking quality is horrible due to the phone not having a flash. Pictures will come out dark, in blue and green hues, and blurry. Forget about even using the video camera.
Reception, even where I live (where there's not true T-Mobile area coverage), is excellent.
Call quality is good when I'm in T-Mobile's area coverage, however there is pinging and echoing while piggy-backing AT&T's network, but not a big deal and something that I can live with.
Applications are slow to load, slow to use, and slow to shut down. While using a program, such as Dolphin Mini Browser, the phone's RAM and processor are maxed out, seemingly, as there is much lag.
With Swype being the main text input that I use, it does just fine, though, as stated above about programs, can be very laggy as well. When Swype doesn't lag, it tends to come up with a tutorial often about what to do when a different word is selected. And it can't be gotten rid of. Having the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide would have been a better deal; a full-keyboard would be much more user friendly.
Every day usage this phone is fine, but using it as what it is; a small computer, it's lacking in the hardware department.
The build quality for this phone seems to be excellent. It's rugged, hasn't given me any headaches, even the track ball is holding up well, albeit having a hard time scrolling right, but a good cleaning and it should be good as new.
In the early age of Android, it really had battery issue.Most of the android used to drain the battery as hell.But this one is awesome.i checked by installing battery monitor widget and it hardly exceeds 2mAh.It used to go 3.5 days with regular usage(Not in 3g and not with data plan,I used to check wifi in the morning and evening ,just to check couple of email ).
It was a reliable phone for me.
This phone is a good starter phone, but lags behind most android devices. Most of the applications will work with this phone but many will not. My wife has a MyTouch 4G and there are many applications that I cannot download or cannot run because of the slow processor speed. The camera is below average (no flash). Overall, it's been decent. It's durable and call quality is good.
This phone is great. I love android phones, the touch screen is good i had the phone less than a year and it works has a lag but it gets my apps.I would get the samsung vibrant great phone great amoled display and everything overall this is a good phone.
When i first got the phone coming from a sidekick lx i was so happy it was a whole new look feel and experience. More memory better apps and just and overall upgrade from my previous phone love android os better then apple os in my opinion. But after time it became slow none responsive and irritating. Now that all these phones with 1Ghz processor came out my phone is accient. Also Takes along time to go to dialer hope i never need to call 911.
I was happy when I first got it, but when I realized that t mobile was going to completely ignore the buyers of the original, I was not so happy. The phone lags and the non 3.5mm jack is horrendous. It forces you to purchase an adapter to use a 3.5mm headset and the adapter has a tendency for a short lifespan. and let us not forget that the newer mytouches have 2.0 android and the originals only run 1.6. T mobile has been lacking in information as to the update to the originals. Overall. if i could go back I would never buy this phone
This phone is great..I think most people are mistaking it for the original mytouch..This is the updated version with bigger ram onboard..I do not have any of the problems that anyone is speaking off...A lot of apps people download cause problems because people dont set the apps to save information as far as the cache to the sd card..Also instead of fully coming out of apps or shutting thenm down (dont need taskiller) they just press the home key in which the phone now attempts to close the program and load up the home screen..Also people never clear there internet cache and leave hundreds of text messages from threads...Think about it when u have text someone back and forth and have 500 text messages to one person where does that information get stored...I you dont take the time to learn your phone then do us all a favor and stick to your non-smart flip phone!!!! lol By the way I posted this from my mytouch 3G 1.2
It is slow phone. Sometimes it takes forever to get back to Home screen. And the Home screen crashes often. I do like the phone and Android OS, I just with it is faster. I sort of understand it is first generation of Android phone, but I wish it is faster.
LOVED it at first but now it's starting to freeze & go ridiculously slow. I've done as suggested & removed & re-installed programs that may be the culperate, it didn't work. I've added task killer to kill all programs that were running in the back, it didn't work. I just hope i'm never in a life or death situation where i need to dial 911 cause it takes forever just to be able to open up my dialer.