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Review: T-Mobile Dash and T-Mobile Wing

T-Mobile Dash

The Good: T-Mobile has a history of producing and influencing the design of great phones, and the Dash, aka HTC Excalibur is no exception. It looks stylish with its silver bezel and curved edges, offers a host of connectivity options including Bluetooth 2.0 and WiFi, has the Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone operating system and offers quad-band worldwide coverage.

The Bad: The inabilities to only read, and not create Word; Excel and PDF documents may be problematic for business users, however e-mail can be synced with another computer via Outlook Mobile. The 1.3 megapixel camera has a confusing interface and produces hazy, washed-out images. Also, the touch-sensitive volume control strip on the right side of the handset is a little fiddly and unresponsive at times.

The Bottom Line: All in all this is a great offering for the modern mobile user with an ideal balance of features for both productivity and entertainment. The long talk and standby times add extra appeal as does the integrated WiFi receiver.

T-Mobile Wing

The Good: The T-Mobile Wing is a quad-band world handset with a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2 megapixel camera and is one of the first on the market to boast the new Windows Mobile 6 Professional Smartphone operating system. It also features the full Office Mobile suite which allows both creation and viewing of documents. There are a number of shortcut keys to frequent used applications, and the display effortlessly changes from portrait to landscape when deploying the QWERTY keyboard.

The Bad: With all this gadgetry on board, the handset is a little on the heavy side. Also, it sometimes behaves somewhat sluggishly, especially when multiple applications are open at the same time, which also takes a toll on battery life. Whereas the display is quite clear under normal operation, it can be difficult to read in direct sunlight.

The Bottom Line: T-Mobile has taken mobile productivity to the next level with the Wing, with a raft of useful features, enhancements and capabilities. However, its weight coupled with several bugs and performance issues give some pause for consideration.

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