T-Mobile Wing Reviewer's Comments
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Who says you can’t have fun at work? The T-Mobile Wing is designed to entertain as well as keep you on task and up-to-date. The Wing is one of the first mobile phones to run Windows Mobile 6 Professional edition and it has Microsoft Mobile Office Suite for creating, editing and viewing documents and manages to effortlessly swoop up our “TopTenREVIEWS Silver” award.
The phone is extremely capable as well as fun with a nearly three inch screen and the ability to play music and video, but it falls a bit short of the gold position since it does not have 3G, so Internet browsing may get a bit sluggish on EDGE. However, the Wing is Wi-Fi enabled so in the office, at the airport or hotel, or even at home with a wireless connection you should be able to surf the Internet easily.
The Wing comes with Microsoft's Direct Push technology that works via Microsoft’s Exchange Server for synchronizing Outlook. The mobile phone does not offer as many corporate connection options as the Blackberry, but if you use Microsoft Exchange Server you should me able to sync up just fine.
T-Mobile Wing Screenshots. Click to Enlarge
Productivity/Travel:
The Wing has all of the basic productivity tools we were looking for and most of the travel, with the exception of built in GPS. As mentioned above it has the full Microsoft Mobile Office Suite so you can view, create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and it has an Adobe reader.
This mobile phone includes great email support, including Microsoft's Direct Push technology for real-time email and automatic syncing with Outlook. It is also compatible with Exchange Server and if you have Exchange Server 2007 you get advanced email functions like out-of-office replies and more. Like the iPhone, you can directly dial phone numbers inside email messages or go to web addresses directly from an address mentioned in an email just by tapping on the touchscreen. You can also view your emails in full HTML and view attachments. Of course it also supports POP3 and IMAP email and you can also easily set up the Wing to receive emails from multiple accounts.
If you want this phone and you work for a large company, you may want to talk with your IT person to see if this phone is compatible.
Voice/ Text Features:
This cell phone includes standard cell phone features like conference calling, a speakerphone, voice dialing and so on. Some people report that the predictive text technology of this phone rivals the iPhone, but it may just be a matter of preference.
This quad band phone operates on the EDGE network and has not advanced to 3G, if you need this feature you may want to look at our gold product. You can save up to twelve numbers per contact and your call list can be organized by contact, so you can have a record of your calls to your contacts stored with the contacts information, which could prove quite useful.
It has exceptional text ability; it can send both SMS and MMS messages. The QWERTY keyboard is fairly large and easy to type on and it illuminates for night typing
Internet Features:
The Wing is Wi-Fi enabled and can present full HTML webpages and emails. It supports common IM services like Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and AOL. The Wing can also be used as a modem for your laptop. In terms of Internet features and abilities it has each feature we were looking for.
Mulitmedia Features:
Like most high end cell phones, the Wing has a two megapixel camera; it can also capture video in MPEG-4, Motion JPEG and H.263 format. The Wing camera has an 8x zoom and several other features, but in general has a typical camera for a cell phone.
The Wing also plays music, video and games. The single multimedia feature it is missing is the ability to play FM radio, but it can play streaming radio stations. However, the Wing does not support a 3.5mm headphone jack, so the sound quality may fall short compared to other phones.
Technical Specifications:
The Wing is a bit on the heavy side, at six ounces, but otherwise it has a textured covering for a good grip that makes it easy to hold on to and it has a nearly three inch, 65,000 color and 240x320 pixel touch screen. For extra memory it has a microSD expansion slot for up to 2GB of storage, but we would like to see a little more RAM to make multitasking faster.
Summary:
If you are a T-Mobile subscriber looking for a highly functional phone that is a bit more fun than a Blackberry, you should check out the Wing.
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