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