T-Mobile Shadow II spotted on FCC's site
T-Mobile Shadow II
(Credit: Phone Scoop)In recent months, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint have done a pretty good job updating its smartphone lineups, but T-Mobile seems to be lagging in this area. Aside from the T-Mobile G1 and the RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip, we haven't seen anything new and there are some aging Windows Mobile smartphones that need refreshing, namely the T-Mobile Shadow, T-Mobile Dash, and the T-Mobile Wing. Well, it looks like at least one of those devices will soon have a replacement.
Phone Scoop spotted the T-Mobile Shadow II on FCC's Web site Tuesday, complete with specifications and a draft user manual. As expected, the Shadow II gets updated with Windows Mobile 6.1 and has a faster processor. The smartphone also sports rounded edges but keeps the slide-out keyboard and 2.6-inch, nontouch QVGA display. Other features include integrated Wi-Fi, a 2-megapixel camera, a microSD expansion slot, quad-band world roaming, and possible support for T-Mobile's HotSpot@Home service. No official word yet on availability or pricing.
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by the looks, it already seems hard to use and not that appealing
tmobile should look at at&t's and sprint's phones and get hands on those babys
now thats what we wantt.
Triple the processors speed & ram; enable SDHC card use; add 3G, keep Wi-Fi ; WM 6.1 and make 4 different colors. Right there you have version two of the Shadow, Wing & Dash that people want and they don't step on the G1. Plus because windows as such a large mod community, you play up the fact that the phone is so "open" to change. Since every tech company wants to seem "open" today.
So what's new? Just a faster processor, new design, new navigation interface, I guess?
But do not get me wrong... It is a pretty sweet phone, and I installed Mini-Opera browser (can view the Facebook, Gmail, etc just like a real browser) and Google Earth (and it looks sweet, though I do not use it too much). And many interfaces are available (one with bubbles, one like a smart phone, etc) and the best part is the music quality coming out from the speaker (and you can set the MP3 as the ringtone, too!).
Only downside is that it is built by HTC. The result is that the software gets stuck or laggy sometimes, and the battery life is pretty low.
But my point is: why does T-Mobile bother to release the T-Mobile Shadow when there is no difference? And believe me because I am using it right now: it already has a Wi-Fi and everything -- it just does not say so from the T-Mobile website.
- by make_or_break December 7, 2008 10:34 PM PST
- I agree with the rest of you...T-Mo's cell phone updates are generally yawners. I ALMOST switched back to the Dark Side (ATT) but decided that I'm not that crazy stupid anymore and instead would rather go ahead and stick it out with the G1 rather than the iPhone and the Death Star. Only thing I've discovered is that Google should've slapped BETA on this puppy just like they tag 'beta' on everything else they do.
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(10 Comments)...and that I miss my oh so slow BlackBerry 9700g very, very much.