T-Mobile Wing
I'm picky about call quality. In fact, I rarely praised the quality of phone calls - until now. In my experience, the navy blue T-Mobile Wing ($ 300 with a two-year contract) sounded terrific. While on calls, I heard virtually none of the witness or the whistling noise that usually betrays the fact that I'm on a cell phone. And the people I spoke with noted that I sounded very clear - even if on a jetway at an airport noise. Call quality is not the only force Wing: It also offers impressive battery life and an array of strong features.
The phone - the first to ship preloaded with Windows Mobile 6.0 (T-Mobile also make Windows Mobile 6 available an update for the dashboard ) - has many features, including a still image and video camera, messaging, and the familiar like menu system with Windows applications go. The phone includes Office Mobile with Word, Excel and PowerPoint (you can view, create and edit documents); Windows Live for Windows Mobile (with Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Live Search and Live Spaces ), Windows Media Player and My Documents folder structure for storing files and multimedia. Other instant messaging applications (for use with AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo), Java applications, a T-Mobile HotSpot log-in shortcut, and a voice recorder.
The wing comes with a 2.8-inch touch screen (T-Mobile bundles a stylus with the phone, but I tended to rely on my fingers do the walking) . Six keys very sensitive, and five on the navigation control below the screen before the screen makes solo sailing a breeze. Slide the display left, and the screen automatically reorients to landscape to accompany your typing on the keyboard spacious. keys are large and flat, with backlighting that makes using the camera in a darkened environment a breeze. I found the Wing surprisingly comfortable for thumb-typing when I took the unit with both hands as typist, I was surprised how quickly I could type (I have small hands, a friend with larger hands found the keyboard to navigate more difficult).
Unfortunately, other aspects of the design of the phone are less attractive. Specifically, I found a lot of buttons around the edge of the phone difficult to press and poorly constructed. For example, the volume slider, located near the center of the phone along the left side, was difficult to adjust the keyboard of my finger (if you have nails long enough, it could not be a problem).
The dedicated camera button is located near the top left of the camera when the phone is oriented vertically and the top right when the phone is situated horizontally - the best way to use the camera. But the button is flat and hard to press. When I did, I often accidentally click twisted sliding mechanism of the phone, too, which makes me worry about the long-term integrity of this critical part of the phone. Pressing the camera button launched the 2-megapixel CMOS digital camera phone, with its 8X digital video zoom camera (for pictures in low resolution) and (capable of capturing clips at up to 176 by 174 resolution), but the phone lagged considerably while the camera appeared.
I suspect that some of my gripes with the phone may be more related to Windows Mobile 6 as the device itself. Application Communications Manager, for example, houses a dizzying array of options - everything from vibrate settings and ringer, EDGE and GPRS data connection minutiae. To disable the wireless antennas and put the phone into flight mode, I had to traverse three screens - more before I found a helpful shortcut - just to get to the point of Communications Manager where I could disable the wireless radio.
As MDA T-Mobile Wing (underlying model number HERA110) is manufactured and designed for T-Mobile by HTC. claims that T-Mobile Wing is 30 percent below the MDA. It certainly feels more compact than the MDA, weighing 6 ounces and measuring 2.3 by 4.3 by 0.7 inches. When closed, the wing is dominated by its 240-by-320-resolution, 65,000 color touch screen. When opened, it offers a smoother version of T-Mobile Sidekick III.
Wing is a quad-band GSM phone with support for 850 -, 900 -, 1800 - and 1900 - MHz. It works a 201-MHz processor OMAP850 with 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB read-only. According to T-Mobile, phone by default comes with 26 MB of free memory and 16 MB of available program storage. You can add storage for multimedia and data files via the MicroSD card.
The hardliners of the entire 10 hours that marks the ceiling of the evaluation of PC World Test Center battery life. His performance corresponds to that of models such as the T-Mobile MDA (which this model replaces) and the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8300 - our most recently tested top performers.
The phone comes with a holster and an assortment of cables and connectors. The 258-page manual covers all important topics, but unfortunately, T-Mobile does not include a copy of the manual on the phone itself in PDF format so you can see from the Adobe Acrobat Reader LE loaded. When I asked for help in the phone, the included Microsoft help file did not meet my needs.
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