T-Mobile Wing Smartphone
February 22nd, 2008
The phone is extremely capable as well as fun with a nearly three inch screen and the ability to play music and video. 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. This smartphone 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
