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| T-Mobile Wing Smartphone (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: T-Mobile Branded
Category: Wireless
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $181.27
You Save: $318.72 (64%)
New (1) Used (1) from $181.27
Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 2113
Color: Blue
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: Wing
UPC: 610214614360
EAN: 0610214614360
ASIN: B000QTWT7W
Release Date: May 15, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nice phone, when you tweak it right. February 13, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Out of the box this phone has some problems, but these can be fixed. Foremost, there is not enough free memory to run programs. With the default t-mobile ROM, there is about 8MB of free program memory after a clean start. After some use this can dip as low as 2MB with no programs running! This means that windows mobile has a HUGE footprint of around 40MB on this phone! After some digging, I found some custom ROMs and I would highly recommend flashing your phone with one of these. For example, the one that I use (OpenTouch V3.0) has a MUCH smaller footprint of about 29MB, leaving around 20MB free for running programs. This is plenty and I never have "out of memory" errors anymore
The second common complaint is the processor speed. I haven't found this to be much of a problem, but if you need to run intensive apps like skype, you can overclock using BatteryStatus. Some people have had luck getting it up to 273Mhz, I keep it at around 240Mhz. You can even use CPU scaling to automatically adjust the speed depending on CPU usage.
There are also plenty of addons and 3rd party programs that will make this phone rival the iphone. After the above tweaks, the only complaint I have is that this phone won't be compatible with t-mobile's UMTS network when it becomes available.
In summary, I really don't know what t-mobile was thinking shipping this phone in such a crippled state. But after some modifications, this phone is REALLY nice. I enjoy it much more than my previous blackberry pearl.
Pros: long battery life, nice form factor, runs windows mobile 6, touch screen, easy access microSD slot.
Cons: A little on the heavy side, needs some tweaking to be usable, not UMTS compatible.
 Wing is hampered by its slowness and operating system February 6, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Just bought it yesterday with the hope of replacing a Palm PDA and a cell phone. Sound quality on the phone was adequate. It was expensive.
I am extremely disappointed in the Windows Mobile 6 operating system. The software installed on this phone takes up half of its onboard memory, although a micro SD card can supplement that. Every time I closed, opened or switched between applications there was delay. After having used a Palm based PDA for several years, there is no way I can give up the efficiency and user friendliness of that operating system for this. In addition the software only syncs with Microsoft Outlook on my computer, which I find to be a weak PIM tool for personal use. It cannot keep track of all the data fields I've added in Palm software.
The web access is extremely slow and most web pages are unreadable. The touch screen does not work as smoothly as my Palm PDA and the screen is very small with tiny letters that I have to strain to read.
In summary, it is a weak PDA and only an adequate phone. For the price the compromise is too great.
Solid construction and really great phone December 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're a professional looking for a device that can setup multiple email accounts, instant messaging, touch screen, and a good comfortable keyboard then this product is it. The device is well constructed with a convenient slide out keypad for either messaging/email, etc.. The battery life is adequate when charged daily. The device also comes with windows mobile 6 and a lot of communication methods such as bluetooth, usb, etc..
The bomb December 29, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love the wing. i got the wing for christmas and it is the best on the wing you can get full connection from almost anywhere i also like it because compared to the blackberry if u go on aim you get your whole friend list. I love this phone so much
Very very nice value for money December 10, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I wanted a multipurpose phone ( not a home theater in a box phone).
The phone has very fast GPRS internet access. We used this phone to get around the city on our recent visit to orlando.
Download Google Maps or use Live Search for map service. You can also use it as a GPS receiver (pair with GPS like Magellan 3140) and you are all set.
I did not want the blackberry cos the keyboard make the phone look big and this problem was solved with this machine. The slide in keryboard is very nice.
The touch keyboard is reponsive, not the best but good for all purposes.
The phone performs very well when used as a phone. Absolutely no dropped calls, nice speaker phone ( i liked the RAZRs speaker phone better), good Address book. Camera/video camera is mediocre at best, and I have a 2GB micros SD card which resolved all my memory issues.
Absolutely wonderful value for money device.
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