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I love my Wing, the design, the size, the color and the applications. However, I hate the fact that in 3 years time I have probably gone through 4 or 5 of them usually because some aspect of it fails, the touch screen, the menu buttons, the back door doesn't stay on, the phone freezes, on and on. Additionally one of the main reasons that I bought it for (using the programs like Outlook, mobile word and adding applications) is not really possible because the memory is just not sufficient enough to do it. There are some solutions out there like purchasing a microSD card with high storage capacity and install your applications on there, but if your not that computer savvy this can seem daunting in an of itself. The camera I've never been able to get a really good picture with but I don't really use it that often. Anyway for whatever reason I still love my Wing; maybe it's the Qwerty keyboard, the excellent t-mobile service, the slide-out keyboard, the great organization that comes with the tasks feature and the calendar with its reminder function, the internet access, the video playback ability or the MP-3 player. Additionally it's really easy to sync it with your computer using ActiveSync, a major plus for me because as I said I'm not that computer savvy at all. I don't know something keeps me buying one (potentially gonna fail) Wing after another. Maybe it's just that I haven't found another phone that links all of the features I love so much together as well as the Wing has done. It's my Love/Hate relationship with the Wing!!Read full review
This full physical QWERTY Windows phone is still a good choice even years after its initial release. Powered by a Qualcomm 7200A 528 MHz processor backed up with 256 MB of usable RAM this device is ready to handle your communication chores. It makes excellent use of what it has. The key is the full physical QWERTY keyboard. I have struggled with the keyboard on the Nokia N900 for a year and a half. I fell in love with the HTC implementation of this feature almost immediately. Large keys, good travel and excellent feedback make it stand out. Having a full five rows also makes it stand out. Visual indicators of use of the Shift and ALT key - super! Next cool feature - The screen tilts up at an angle so you can look at it comfortably. The hinge has a solid feel to it and the screen stays put when you adjust it. The screen has a 480 x 800 resolution. It looks good. It is plenty bright, at times too bright. I had to adjust it down for some uses. The basic phone functions are all well attended to. Solid microphone and ear piece. Noise cancellation on the speaker phone. A mute button on the speaker phone is also cool. Office Mobile is one of the best features of this phone. I am able to e-mail files from work to my phone and then review, edit and save them at my leisure. There is a free upgrade to Office Mobile 2010 available once I loaded the Marketplace app. Internet Explorer Mobile is a disappointment. At 480 x 800 I expected better rendering of websites with a lot less scrolling about to read. If anything is crying out for improvement on this device it is IE Mobile. The touch screen is the main interface for the phone. I have used more sensitive touch screens. This one is resistive which means it is stylus friendly, fingernail friendly and fairly accurate. Portrait and landscape on-screen keyboards are available for most programs that need input. I find most of my frustration with this device comes from having to double or triple touch an icon to get some action. (This does not apply to the keyboards.) Sometimes that leads to activating the subsequent icon and then you have to navigate backward to get to what you wanted to do in the first place. The screen is flush to the sides of the device making scratches and mars inevitable. This is the second weakest point on this device. The weakest point on this device is headphone jack, data port, charging port. They are all the same unprotected port. To listen with headphones while hooked up to the charger or computer you need a dongle about the size of a matchbox that plugs into the multi-port and then you plug into the dongle. The port also takes a proprietary 11 pin miniUSB cable. A regular miniUSB will do for charging and data transfer. The extra pins allow you to do all the stuff that should be on separate ports through this one port. Internet Connectivity is easy via WCDMA Band IV or via wireless g connection. Most encryption schemes are supported so you can browse via your home or work network securely. Entering the passkey via the full keyboard is a snap. While you are on the Internet you can download your e-mails from work, or home, gmail, AOL, Yahoo and any SMTP/POP e-mail provider. The camera is passable, as is the media player. I am used to the Nokia N900 so the size and heft of this was no surprise to me. If you are adapted to a Galaxy S you will notice the weight and thickness immediately. The battery cover is too easy to remove, falls off at times.Read full review
HTC HD2 Review: For some perspective, I'm coming from an original iPhone. By comparison, the HD2 has a much better screen. Much bigger, and brighter. The email and calendar sync well with exchange servers, and the actual phone seems to get good reception. The 1GHz processor is evident, there is very little lag in using the phone compared to older WinMo platforms that I've used. Battery life is about what you'd expect for a phone with a screen this big. It'll last a workday with light use in an area with good reception. Use it a lot, and you better have a travel/car charger handy. The area where this phone really disappoints is the operating system. WinMo 6.5 is pretty average, to be generous. If you've used the iPhone or Android OS, you will not be particularly pleased with the Windows Mobile system. The application library is very poor, with most programs charging a fee, and very few programs available. I like the form factor of the phone, but I can see why many do not -- it is very thin, but very large. I have large hands, and have no problems operating the phone with one hand, or fitting the phone in pants pockets, but the price you pay for that beautiful screen is evident when you hold the phone in your hand. It's not the lightest phone in the world, but I find it has a nice weight for it's size. Overall, if you like WinMo and are familiar with it, I could recommend this phone to you. If you just want a phone to sync with your exchange email and have a very readable screen, you might be in the right place. If, however, you are an experienced user of smartphones, perhaps coming from an Android or iPhone background, I would caution you that your experience may not live up to your expectations. Scores (out of 10): Form - 9 Usability - 8 Call quality - 8 Email - 9 Battery life - 5 Ability to type - 6 Web browsing - 8 Operating system - 2 Application availability - 1 OVERALL - 6 Summary: a great phone brought back to reality by a sub-par operating system.Read full review
The first thing I noticed about this phone was the superb 4.3" capacitive display, it is just amazing and it was pretty responsive too. The phone has a very sleek design and the build quality is great as well. But once you start the phone, and use Windows Mobile, that's when stuff starts going downhill. I am not a big fan of WM, and this phone made me hate it even more. It is sad for such a beastly device, with a huge screen and a 1 Ghz processor, to be treated to the agony that is WM. WM 6.5 is made tolerable just by the sheer power of the device, having used the HTC touch Pro 2, the HD2 makes WM look and feel less crappy. The OS was sluggish, and not very intuitive. It is not for an everyday user. The battery life was not bad, much better than the iphone or android devices. The call quality wasn't the best, and signal strength was at the mercy of the phone. Typing was a pain, i have used a zillion touch screen devices, and this was plain bad. It took a few seconds to register my click at times, and I found it hard to type a word without errors. The media side of the phone is great, thanks to the screen and it's resolution, the music playback is pretty good too. Connectivity options are just as expected nothing great nor bad. If you love a huge screen but can ignore some of the WM flaws, this could be your device. But I couldn't take WM 6.5 for too long. And sadly, the HD2 won't be getting the WM 7 update either.Read full review
great phone, fast response. phone has a super great camera and screen , the OS is pretty good, reason why it does not get 5 stars because it has a horrible app system or store. yo uhave to get third party open sourced apps that are unreliable or slow you phone up alot. pros: open sourced system easy to use great camera 3g is so fast and a fast proccessor screen is amazing with movies external memory thats is as easy as handling flash drive(just drag music and movies and apps in and YOUR DONE ready to use) CONS: battery is drained sooo fast, factory apps SUCK and the app store or system suckss!! horrible!!! Summary: great phone all i missed was the iphone apps, other then that HD2 all the way!!