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T-Mobile Launches Wing Smartphone

by Tom Samiljan on May 22, 2007 at 10:47 AM

T-Mobile WingToday, T-Mobile launched the Wing, this year's follow-up to (and replacement for) the MDA smart phone that came out last year. Besides the more alluring, monosyllabic name, the Wing has a body that's 30 percent slimmer than the MDA and comes in a sleeker black. It's also the first smartphone to ship with the new Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system, a slicker and smoother version of Windows Mobile that lets you both read and edit Office documents and easily toggle between multiple e-mail accounts, among other new features.

We just got our hands on the Wing and haven't had much time to give it a full-fledged spin, but we can already say that the slide-out rubber-y, brushed metal keyboard is one of the more comfortable we've tried out (certainly more comfortable than the one on the Helio Ocean, with which the Wing is certainly competing).

We also generally find the old Windows Mobile to be glitchy and confusing, but so far the operating system on the Wing has been working beautifully. Set-up of e-mail accounts and Web surfing has been seamless, so far.

The Wing also has a 2.0-megapixel camera, supports full HTML browsing (and e-mail, provided it's of the Hotmail or Windows Live variety), BlackBerry-style push e-mail for Outlook and Hotmail accounts, and built-in Windows Live search. As with other Windows Mobile products, the Wing supports music downloaded from online subscription services such as Napster and Yahoo! Music, as well as video (which you can also make with the built-in camcorder).

The phone is quad-band GSM, but for data only goes as fast as the EDGE network. That said, you can get faster surfing speeds by turning on the Wi-Fi if you're in a hotspot. As with all T-Mobile phones, it's got the myFaves service, which lets you make unlimited calls and text messages to your five favorite people.

At about $400, it's not the cheapest phone out there. And even though the Wing is about 30 percent smaller than last year's MDA, it's still no BlackJack, or even BlackBerry Curve, in terms of the pocket-bulge factor. But if you're a Windows Mobile user and are dying to try 6.0, the Wing is currently the state-of-the-art (though probably not for long).

We'll report back as soon as we've had more hands-on.


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