New Excalibur in black ?!

[NRGZ28]

I read this article on BGR today about a "color refresh" TMobile put out recently. Does anybody have one of the black Dash's ?!

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/12/22/t-mobile-dash-in-black-floating-around/

[mjpuczko]

i've seen this story posted on engadget & pocketnow. interesting. i hope it's true & has 3g support ;-)

[NRGZ28]

Well if you read the comments, people say it's JUST a color update and nothing more. It's still cool and I wouldn't mind owning one :)

[Bupahs]

Its just a color refresh. Nothing new except different color and slightly different color keyboard color. My local T-Mo has them, frankly they look like crap :( I was very disappointed.

[pfunkside]

Looks like my excalibur in a black silicone case

[lubs]

Seems to me the owners are going to be dealing with a lot more of this:

"Nice Blackberry!"

"Well actually..."

Freakin annoying.

[jdoggraz]

I had one of those for a while now... nothing spectacular about it really...

[Ryanmo5]

Seems to me the owners are going to be dealing with a lot more of this:

"Nice Blackberry!"

"Well actually..."

Freakin annoying.
Yeah i second that, my friend calls it a f@gberry all the time. Stupid iphone user lol

[prelives14]

The first time I saw this on All Shadow i fell to my knees and wept at its beauty.

[jdoggraz]

Haha that is funny, kind weird how many ppl ask if my dash is a blackberry...

[Bupahs]

Haha that is funny, kind weird how many ppl ask if my dash is a blackberry...

I always tell them blackberry's are for kids.. this is an adults phone :)

[orb3000]

Looks like my excalibur in a black silicone case

LOL, same here it looks almost identical

[stellarvelocity]

I've had a chance to manhandle the fake demo phone we got at my T-mo store, and it's a pretty alright cosmetic change. I don't like my companies logo on my Dash, and have been contemplating scrubbing it off; but with the new Dash it doesn't work because of the rubber face, and that pink T REALLY sticks out on the black.

From what I've been told, and what we're expecting, it's going to be windows mobile 6.1. We should have the real phones unboxed soon (my manager won't let us TOUCH them until the original phones are gone ((one left!!)) so we can't see it).

SO if it is, we all should have an official windows mobile 6.1 rom from T-mobile soon, and hopefully it'll clean things up.

I would love for someone to debrand it after they dump it though. Just a thought.

Keep you guys posted!

stellarvelocity

[dungtq]

Thanks for your info.

[Profezza]

Interesting. I see that the dash is not on t-mobile.com right this moment...

[pfunkside]

Interesting. I see that the dash is not on t-mobile.com right this moment...

Hmm maybe that's a good thing

I've had a chance to manhandle the fake demo phone we got at my T-mo store, and it's a pretty alright cosmetic change. I don't like my companies logo on my Dash, and have been contemplating scrubbing it off; but with the new Dash it doesn't work because of the rubber face, and that pink T REALLY sticks out on the black.

From what I've been told, and what we're expecting, it's going to be windows mobile 6.1. We should have the real phones unboxed soon (my manager won't let us TOUCH them until the original phones are gone ((one left!!)) so we can't see it).

SO if it is, we all should have an official windows mobile 6.1 rom from T-mobile soon, and hopefully it'll clean things up.

I would love for someone to debrand it after they dump it though. Just a thought.

Keep you guys posted!

stellarvelocity

That could be a great thing. Definitely need a dump

[stellarvelocity]

It looks like it is confirmed Windows Mobile 6.1:

http://thetechnicist.typepad.com/the_technicist/2008/12/tmobile-dash-black-hands-on.html

(as reported today by Engadget and The Technicist).

The biggest question now is if it comes with the sliding panel homepage. The screen shot printed on the fake phone, and these screens, still show the Windows Mobile Default Homescreen.

The other big thing I'm hoping you awesome modders can do is rip the UMA drivers out of the upcoming UMA Shadow II. If we can get an official Tmo 6.1 with hotspot calling I'd declare it a Happy New Year next month.

thetechnicist is claiming that the Dash is outdated, but we don't have 3g in my area yet, so the little bugger is still a piece of gold IMOP, especially over crackberrys as long as I get that UMA.

[whoispaulallen]

So if this updated Dash has WinMo 6.1 would there be away to get a somewhat official rom to put on our original Dash(s)?

[tahngarth]

My fiance actually has one. It by default does not have the sliding panel home page. When she get's home I'll see if it's available on there at all. Looking at the frequencies on the box, 850, 900, 1800, 1900, I don't think it's 3G (1700 is what tmo is using?). From what I can tell it truely is unchanged hardware wise.
I didn't think it was 6.1 at all since it didn't have the instant messanger styled text messaging interface, or is that a different app baked into the 6.1 firmware I put on my Shadow? Anything else anyone wants me to look at? Any certainty if flashing it with any of the 6.1 firmwares will work?

Edit:
Phone is home, it is not 6.1.

[Joe USer]

What version of 6.0 is it running?

[taylor_b92]

I think I saw that on T-Mobile's UK site about a year and a half ago

[jdoggraz]

I think I saw that on T-Mobile's UK site about a year and a half ago

Yah it came out quite a while ago...

[vivid22]

To be honest, this is the exact colour scheme of how the German equivalent of the T-Mobile Dash (MDA Mail in GER) looked like...but we had it already for years. Mind you, i have been using mine now for some time and the black paint peeled off and underneath u can see the standard silver, not that nice really.

[phatmanxxl]

My friend got one, we compared the "About" and saw the OS versions and whatnot were exactly identical when when I was running 6. So folks its running the latest version of WinMo 6 thats availible on the Tmobile website. All it is, is just a black case over the same old dash. I did like the new look though, she refused to trade phones :P

[Wingzfly]

I'm waiting for my new black Dash to show up. :-) I know it's just the color but I think it'll keep it looking newer longer. Black rubber doesn't show use as much.