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T-Mobile Wing (2)
By admin | June 7, 2007
When you open it, the Wing emits a nice little chime to let you know that you’ve opened it. Unlike the MDA which often bound up on the plastic rails, the Wing slides gracefully along a slightly spring-loaded track. After opening, the screen rotates around and you’re exposed to a fantastically type-able miniature QWERTY keyboard. You’ll immediately notice a few usability tweaks over the MDA including led lights to indicate CAPS and ALT status (a brilliant idea I’m surprised they didn’t try earlier) and the softkeys have been moved to correspond to their location on the screen. HTC was also kind enough to cover every single key with a shortcut of some kind. There are shortcuts to everything from symbols and punctuation to different applications. Unlike the MDA, the Wing’s numeric keypad is in a more traditional configuration for a phone (3 rows of 3) than a typewriter (1 row of 10). Numeric dialling with the keyboard is accomplished by holding the Alt key and typing the number, or by double tapping the Alt key to lock it in place.
Across the side are an array of application specific keys. Starting with the left side of the Wing, from the bottom, you have a MicroSD slot, you have the volume up/down slider, and you have a camera button. Across the top is only the power button, and then down the right side is the messaging button and the Voice Command button. Holding the messaging button will bring you to the Voice Recorder. All the buttons are easily accessible. On the bottom edge, you have a mini USB port which serves as the power port and headset jack.
Figure 2: The back of the Wing (on the back of the wing, you have the camera lens).
The Wing has a 200 Mhz processor, but it feels much snappier than the MDA. Applications pop open, key presses are responsive, and overall performance is quite acceptable. It’s not great; we’re not talking about a really fast chip here, after all, but in the end, it’s more than good enough for some on the go music, mobile web browsing, texting/e-mailing, and so on. In my informal observations, even with a few applications open, the Wing continued to respond well. Occasionally I would get the dreaded “Low on System Memory” message, but closing a few open applications took care of them.
…to be continued…
Source: pocketpcthoughts.com
Topics: Computers & Software |
June 16th, 2010 at 3:18 am
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