This is about the T-Mobile Wing, T-Mobile's follow up to the MDA. The two devices are similar, however the Wing has a new slicker form factor, as well as a two mega pixel camera, which is an upgrade from last years version. Most importantly this is one of the first devices to launch in the US with Windows Mobile 6, which is professional edition and used to be called Pocket PC. This just means that the T-Mobile Wing has a touch screen.
Like most Windows Mobile phones the Tmobile Wing has tons of buttons. On the front you will find a D-pad with a center select key, soft keys, Windows and ok keys, as well as a send and end key. On the right hand side of the phone, where the camera would normally be there is a stylus, a quick jump to the messaging center, as well as the voice activation button. On the top of the phone you will find the on/off button, which is also used to turn the screen on once it locks. On the left side of the phone you will find the camera button, which makes it very convenient for using the phone as a camera. You will also find the volume control and a microSD slot, which is concealed behind a rubber door. On the bottom of the phone you will find a mini USB jack, which is used for charging, syncing, as well as a headset port.
Finally if you slide the top piece of the phone upwards, the keyboard lies beneath. The nice feature this phone has is the screen comes on as soon as you slide the screen up. The T-Mobile Wing also has some new indicator lights as well, with blue led lights which come on when you press the shift key and the function key.
One of the bad things you will find while holding the T-Mobile Wing with the slider open is that your finger will be positioned right on the camera lens, which will unfortunately leave fingerprints on the lens. You will also notice that the home screen takes quite a long time to come back on. One of the things that T-Mobile has done with the Wing in the interest of making things easier to find is packing the home screen full of different things. They have done this to the point where you can't touch any part of the screen without activating something. All of these features also slow down the loading time of the T-Mobile Wing.
There are some new note worthy features in Windows Mobile Professional. One of which is the fact that there is a Windows Live application as well as a Live Search application. This can be kind of confusing, seeing you would think they are basically the same thing, however they each give you access to different features. The Windows Live application gives you access to messenger, email, and Windows Live web search. While Windows Live search gives you access to windows local.
Windows Mobile 6 Professional finally added the quick find feature, which has been available on Windows Mobile Smart Phone, the standard for quite some time. Windows Mobile 6 Professional also has all of the office applications that the standard edition has. Finally the battery life in the new T-Mobile Wing is amazing, you can expect to get four days or so on a charge.
We wish the home screen would have had fewer icons making it easier to use, we also wish that they would have upgraded the processor in the T-Mobile Wing over the from the processor that was in the MDA. The processor is just to slow to run Windows Mobile 6 especially with all of the extras T-Mobile added. But other then that its a huge improvement and a really nice phone. If you are considering buying a new phone I would highly recommend purchasing the T-Mobile Wing.
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