I love my Windows Phone (as is evident by all my gushing in previous posts) and I really think the Windows Mango OS is beautiful, fast, and cool. My phone of choice to enjoy Mango is the HTC Radar from T-Mobile; a thin, compact, speedy phone all contained in a slick metal body. The specs may seem underwhelming if you were to compare it to, say, a Samsung Galaxy or some other high powered Android. But specs don’t matter when the OS is James Bondish enough to operate correctly with the hardware and dare I say, the cloud (aka the web). So the phone is great…that is, until it is not great. And right now, it’s not great.
All of the mobile phone companies have decided that ‘unlimited’ is really code for limited with regards to mobile data usage. In my case, T-Mobile has a 2GB unlimited limit. Meh. Whatever. I am not going to argue with them, so when I am in proximity to Wifi, I just use that to save on my data bandwidth usage. That’s all fine and dandy until THIS happens: you connect to a wireless network via Wifi, obtain an IP Address and the like and…voila! Nothing. You see, the HTC Radar has a pesky little bug where you are connected to a Wifi network but there is no up/down data flow unless you turn the Wifi connection off and on again. If you are lucky, you may re-establish data flow but only in limited doses before it goes out again.
HTC, T-Mobile, Microsoft…no one has a viable answer, although I have seen this issue posted on numerous forums so I know it is not me or just my phone. I held out hope that update 8107 would fix the problem, however, those hopes were soon dashed. It did not. Today I backtracked and did the unthinkable…I did a master reset on my phone to see if that solves the issue. Results are pending.
What have I/we learned? Well, while Microsoft has developed an excellent smartphone alternative to Android and Apple, they are not impervious to the really dumb technology guffaws of their competitors.
Even the greatest generals have battles that go sideways in war.
