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.

[wjsteele]

Come on T-Mobile... give us something sexy! This device isn't anything worth waiting for!

[arrowdragon]

it doesnt look that good
:/
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.

[bknowledge]

Here is how T-mobile updates their line without much fuss.
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.

[rockn_1234567]

The old shadow already supports SDHC and I believe the dash and Wing do as well. The new shadow is pretty much the old shadow with windows 6.1. This is why I jumped ship and went to Sprint, I like TMobile customer service but their phone selection is way behind Sprint and AT&T.

what bothers me is that they are coming out with some cool phones but they are not hotspot phones.why have the service if your phones are not made for this yaya i see yhe blackberry and some other low end phones supports the hotspot but i dont like the blackberry.the new samsung behold i would love to have but its not a hotspot so why do i push for a hotspot phone well i get no service in my house maybe when i get lucky i get one bar.comon tmobile get some better phones in with hotspot so i can use your service and be able to use my phone in my house

[RDH7]

There were rumors earlier this year about a version of the Kaiser (something like the AT&T Tilt) for T-mobie, but I've about given up hope. I've loved my T-Mobile service, but because of the programs I need, I am pretty much locked in to Windows Mobile with a touch screen. Unfortunately, it seems like T-Mobile has put their focus in a different direction (G1). Unless I hear of something new from T-Mobile soon I'm switching to AT&T!

[lennythespider]

Right behind you RDH7. I have loved T-mobile and their support since I became a customer many many years ago, but their phone selection seems to be heavily skewed towards the "want a stylish toy" crowd, and severely lacking in business class phones. I can't use blackberrys because of the programs I need, so they have until March to give me something I can use or I'm going to be forced to hop to AT&T.

[aerosky1229]

I have a T-Mobile Shadow now, and it already has a built-in Wi-Fi, a 2.0 megapixel camera, a bluetooth capability, and a slot of Micro-SD memory card.

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.

i had a t-mobile shadow and that was a very bad experience. Only 200 mhz processor.Very slow, the way was build its very cheap, the battery life was lasting 1 day , the phone was freezing every day . Very cheap device, i wouldn't buy it again or the new one. I own a BB curve right now and this device its amazing, plus you can reinstall the BB OS anytime with complete wipe of the device.

[make_or_break]

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.

...and that I miss my oh so slow BlackBerry 9700g very, very much.