Product Description

Stay connected with the T-Mobile Wing, a powerful phone with a touch screen and slide out keyboard that lets you take the strength of your desktop with you.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Blue
• Brand: T-Mobile Branded
• Model: Wing
• Released on: 2007-05-15

Features

• Microsoft Windows Mobile® 6.0 operating system
• Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology built-in for a wire free experience
• Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile® (e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes) & Windows Media Player® Mobile (music and video files)
• 2.0 megapixel camera, Video camera and Windows Media Player
• Includes: Battery, Charger, Stereo Hands-free Headset, USB Cable and User's Guide

Amazon.com Product Description
The successor to the popular MDA Smartphone, the T-Mobile Wing quad-band phone has a surprise waiting up its sleeve: just slide the top of the phone sideways to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. It's especially handy with the inclusion of the new Windows Mobile 6 operating system, which enables you to view and edit Word and Excel documents as well as provides instant message capabilities via Windows Live Messenger. (See more details about Windows Mobile 6 below.) The included Outlook Mobile software offers up-to-date e-mail, calendar and contact information. If you use the T-Mobile Wing in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server, you can get instant e-mail from your work account as well as enhanced security features that let you clear data from a device if it is stolen or require high-security passwords to access information.

The T-Mobile slides open sideways to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, and the screen reorients itself depending on how you hold the phone.

Click the image to view a larger version of the keyboard.

Key features at a glance:

• Slide-out screen exposing full QWERTY keypad
• Soft-touch exterior with deep blue color
• Wi-Fi and EDGE-enabled high-speed Internet access
• Full HTML Web browsing
• Support for Microsoft Office Mobile enables document viewing and editing
• Windows Live for Windows Mobile including Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Live Search, and Windows Live Spaces
• Direct Push e-mail available with Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and later; Windows Live Hotmail also supports push mail
• Voice dialing, voice commands and voice recorder
• Bluetooth connectivity
• 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
• Video capture and playback music and video player
• Micro SD memory card slot

The T-Mobile Wing has a sleek profile that measures just 17mm (0.7 inches) thick, and it weighs a svelte 6 ounces (with battery loaded). The 2.8-inch color touchscreen transreflective TFT screen automatically orients itself depending on how you hold the phone (i.e., from portrait to landscape and back again). It displays 65,000 colors and has a 320 x 240-pixel resolution. You can scroll through onscreen functions with a pen or finger, or you can use the function buttons placed on the front of the phone.

In addition to supporting GSM/GPRS and EDGE, the Wing also features Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), which enables you to use open wireless networks (as well as T-Mobile's more than 8,000 HotSpot locations) to access the Internet as well as access all four major instant messaging providers--AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger, and ICQ. With the Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, you can go hands-free with a headset or listen to music with wireless-enabled headphones.

The phone offers 128 MB of ROM (which stores the Windows Mobile 6 operating system and applications) and 64 MB of RAM (which can be used to store user files). It's powered by a 1130 mAh lithium-ion polymer rechargeable battery, which offers between 150 and 200 hours of standby time and 3 to 5 hours of talk time.

A small mirror next to the 2-megapixel lens on the back is handy for taking self portraits..

The 2-megapixel autofocus camera (with 10x digitazl zoom) on the back of the Wing captures images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels (good enough for prints up to 8 x 10 inches), and it includes a small mirror to the left of the lens that's helpful for taking self portraits. You can make such camera adjustments as white balance and exposure metering, choose from several capture modes (such as sports for fast-moving action), or set a self-timer of either 2 or 10 seconds. After an image has been captured, you can edit it right within the Wing, with functions ranging from cropping to correcting color.

Additionally, the Wing can capture video with or without audio (in MPEG-4 or H.263 format, the latter being best for sending via MMS). In addition to starting and stopping video capture at your leisure, you can also specifiy the length of a recording in terms of ime or file size. You can also play back audio and video files downloaded from the Internet or sent to you via email using the integrated Windows Media Player.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6

Windows Mobile 6 adds power to your mobile office with up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars.

Edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on your phone, just as you would on your desktop/laptop PC.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 updates the Windows Mobile 5 platform with a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.

With Windows Mobile 6, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affecting tables, images or text--as well as view PowerPoint presentations.

• Microsoft Office Word Mobile features include spell-check, Find and Replace commands, bulleted lists, text formatting, and support for tables for the first time.
• With Excel Mobile, you're not just confined to editing charts: with the new Chart Wizard you can create charts quickly and easily.
• PowerPoint Mobile allows you to view the full presentation, rehearse timings, check the order and any live links you may have in your presentation. You can then email comments back to the team or communicate via MSN Messenger for an immediate response.
• After creating or editing a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can synchronize it with your PC and it will automatically be converted to the PC version.

All Windows Mobile 6 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way. The HTC P4350 uses an 1130 mAh Polymer battery for its energy. This high capacity battery offers a standby time of 150 hours and a call time of 3 hours, according to the manufacturer.

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T Mobile News Reviews

 

Great promise -- failed delivery.
I was really excited to buy this phone, but after 5 months of frustration in trying to get it to work with my Dot Mac account, I am exchanging it for a Curve. I spent 45 minutes at the store a month ago with a T-Mobile representative who valiantly tried to make it work. Yesterday I spent 2 hours on the phone with yet another T-Mobile representative who went to great lengths to try and make it work with my Dot Mac. Sure, I could try to use this with another e-mail provider, but this is how I have everything wired to go with my business. Am I to rework everything in order to fit this phone's idiosyncracies?

On top of that, I am frustrated by the "constant contact" offered by the phone's many pop up windows, which require me to press OK or click on the OK to get rid of them. Fine... no big deal... except when I'm using hands free Bluetooth through my car. Then I have to pull the phone out of my purse and -- while driving -- get rid of those annoying windows while driving. Don't I have a Bluetooth-enabled phone to circumvent the risks associated with staring at my phone to make a call?

Finally, I am frustrated with the phone intermittently getting confused as I'm making a phone call and doing things I don't expect through the touchscreen. For example, there have been times when I'm on a call and then I disconnect a call because I my face or ear pressed something on the screen. (Um... duh... hello HTC! How about programming the touch screen to turn off once I'm on a call?) Other times, I've gone through an entire phone call but then noticed that my ear was playing Bubble Breaker while I was on the phone call. No harm, no foul? Well, not on those busy days when I get many calls and it's been a day since I last charged the phone. Unnecessary Bubble Breaker games while I'm on the phone just drain the battery and leave me at risk of running out of batteries when I least need that to happen.

So... goodbye Windows Mobile 6 "Smart Phone". I'm going back to Blackberry.

Read this before you start using your wing!
First, let me say anyone buying this phone from Amazon.com is very lucky. I wish I had known I could buy it from them for half the price that I paid for it. With that being said...

The biggest problem with this phone is the memory. No, a storage card will not fix the problem. I have a 4GB, which is nice for storage, but the problem is with the program memory. A way to help this problem, that I was not told by T-Mobile customer service is go into your internet options and save your history for 0 days. It will save your history everytime you go to the internet which uses up all your memory. It has really helped since I did this.

You also need to do a soft reboot everday or every couple of days. This is not a big problem. It only takes a second and does not erase anything so it is not that big of a deal.

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