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