T Mobile introduced latest design mobile phone T Mobile Wing. First,
the good stuff. The Wing comes packed with an impressive arsenal of
smart phone features, including Exchange ActiveSync and Direct Push
support for corporate servers. Others include Bluetooth, the mobile
versions of Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer, a microSD memory
expansion slot (conveniently located on the left spine of the phone), a
two megapixel camera, and a quad-band GSM radio for placing calls on
worldwide networks. There's no built-in GPS navigation or 3G (T-Mobile
has yet to roll out its own 3G network), but you can get high-speed data
over the built-in Wi-Fi receiver nice for anyone with a wireless home
or office network.
All
well and good but unfortunately, my review unit of the T Mobile Wing
was slow as molasses. Programs and menus screens often took a few
seconds to refresh, and buttons took too long to respond; on some
occasions, I kept pressing an on-screen button with the stylus thinking
the phone had frozen, only to have menus pop up a few seconds later.
The
T Mobile Wing is also one of the first smart phones in the U.S. to ship
with Windows Mobile 6, the latest version of Microsoft's mobile OS (the
slim T-Mobile Dash just got a Windows Mobile 6 update of its own). That
means more editing options in the mobile editions of Word, Excel and
PowerPoint, tight integration with Windows Live messaging, and finally
full support for HTML-formatted e-mail messages, which worked like a
dream in my tests. Tapping out messages was a piece of cake thanks for
the Wing's roomy, slide-out QWERTY keypad. The advances made in the new
version of Windows Mobile can be best described as progressional and far
from revolutionary. The system allows users to set up and receive email
instantly from Windows Live Hotmail and also gives users are access to
MSN Messenger.
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