{"id":820,"date":"2006-04-13T02:43:50","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T02:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/cingular-8125-review\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:04","slug":"cingular-8125-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/cingular-8125-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Cingular 8125 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cingular.com\/8125_consumer\">Cingular 8125<\/a> (the US version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2005\/07\/27\/htc-wizard-qtek-9100-caught-naked\/\">HTC Wizard<\/a>) arrived in the mail yesterday and (not surprisingly) I had to make a trip to the Cingular store after spending an hour or so on the phone with Customer Service \/ Tech. Support.\u00a0 However, with a new sim card installed, I was out the door within a half hour with a fully functioning gadget.\u00a0 While the run down of available features is well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&amp;q=cingular+8125+review\">documented around the internet<\/a> and most <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/Cingular_8125\/4505-6452_7-31732999.html\">reviews<\/a> are favorable, here are some features that sold me on this PDA \/ Smart Phone over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/smartphones\/treo700w\/\">competition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Mobile 5.0 with Word, Excel, PowerPoint software installed (read \/ write capability)<\/li>\n<li>Internet via wifi \/ or Cingular Edge \/ GPRS<\/li>\n<li>QWERTY keyboard (returned the T-mobile SDA without it)<\/li>\n<li>Wifi enabled (bluetooth, too) <\/li>\n<li>Cell phone as modem for my laptop (does this really work? wouldn&#39;t it be too sloooow?)<\/li>\n<li>Push e-mail (not quite as good as my old crackberry, but I probably have to tweak a few things)<\/li>\n<li>Music and video player (I also bought a 2GB miniSD card)<\/li>\n<li>Camera with flash and camcorder<\/li>\n<li>All the phone bells and whistles (speaker phone, voice dialing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#39;ve only had it for a day, but after they installed the new sim card I have had a blast trying out the features.\u00a0 I had read a lot about the phone before it arrived, but there is quite a learning curve.\u00a0 However, there is no question that I already know more about the phone than any of the Cingular folks trying to &quot;help&quot; me today.\u00a0 They were really nice, but they were convinced I had a &quot;defective device&quot; when they couldn&#39;t get it working and almost had me return the phone.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I am still a bit concerned about the billing for the phone and data service package.\u00a0 It is certainly not cheap as configured (est. $90 \/ month for the phone and data)\u00a0 However, with Cingular&#39;s comparatively large network, my goal is to use this as the &quot;family&quot; phone in both NYC and PA, so I will be canceling all other services (including Vonage which has not been a perfect solution as a &quot;home&quot; phone replacement, by the way).\u00a0 Therefore, it should be cheaper than our current combined plans &#8211; I think \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We&#39;ve all heard \/ experienced cell phone bill horror stories (surprise roaming fees, text messaging overages, etc), so I have my fingers crossed that the data plan I have is truly &quot;unlimited&quot;.\u00a0 Now, I have to start thinking more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-learningcentre.co.uk\/eclipse\/Resources\/mlearning.htm\">&quot;mobile learning&quot;<\/a> possibilities. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Cingular 8125 (the US version of the HTC Wizard) arrived in the mail yesterday and (not surprisingly) I had to make a trip to the Cingular store after spending an hour or so on the phone with Customer Service \/ Tech. 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