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Review of Windows Mobile 6-Based "Wing"
opeeeerah sends us to Gundeep Hora's review of the Wing, the first Windows Mobile 6 OS-based smartphone from T-Mobile. He concludes: "Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 is a disappointment. Working with a number of applications or 'heavy' documents was painful. The delay was too much, especially in Word and PowerPoint... All in all, the T-Mobile Wing is... a decent smartphone. If nothing else, it's an interesting gadget for the young and hip crowd, though we wouldn't recommend it for productivity hounds that are looking to do reports and presentations... Not to mention, the sexy and strange appeal of the device can't be pleasing to serious professionals. For $299.99 from T-Mobile, it's a worthy Sidekick replacement."
I have no idea if this particular phone is good or not that review was quite pants. For starters yes its larger and heavier than most smartphones most Windows Mobile phones are, is it substantially heavier than those? Mentioning outlook synching and the fact location appears with the appointment makes me question if they even used a Windows Mobile 5 phone (hint a WM5 does just that.) What is a 'heavy' document and how does WM6 compare to WM5? I want to know if the word functionality is better I already know trying to open a 2MB document in Word Mobile takes ages (10 seconds or so.)
That review was awfull to read, they didn't compare it with other offerings or even talk about its features my computer iliterate sister could have done a better job.
Being a former Palm user, I'm quite happy with WM6, and theres no way in hell I'm going back.
Unfortunately better quality control is needed from all manufacturers. There seems to be a habit from all sides of sending devices to the shelves with woefully crap software.
As mini cpus get better and low power, such as .9W 600mhz style x86 based CPUs, with ram over 100mhz and 128meg being cheap, its no
sweat to have XP EMbedded, which actually still runs quite nicely on 333mhz Geode CPUs using 128meg ram at 33mhz on 1998 style busses.
This style setup would work well on a phone, and give better results. As creating your own XP embedded allows you to choose which
services/apps to include to make it as small as possible.
Windows Mobile RIP 2007, XPE to the future.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
From the article: "Basically, it's going to be awkward making phone calls with the Wing."
Might as well end the review right there.
I don't know whether the iPhone will be any better, but Steve Jobs was dead on when he said "The killer app is... making calls."
I have a Swiss Army knife, and while I find the magnifying glass, scissors, and Phillips screwdrivers to be very useful, I use it mostly as a knife. If the knife blades weren't sturdy, sharp, and easy to open, I wouldn't carry one... not even if it included a microscope, pinking shears, and a full set of Torx bits.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
What does the iPhone add to the mobile phone market that isn't already there? Symbian, Linux, and Windows Mobile already have SDKs out there, and have for quite some time. As far as I can tell the iPhone is the follower.
Blaming the Operating System for the speed on this is off base.
Sure, this sort of makes sense, until we think about hardware from the past. When I think about what we used to do on the original Palm 33mhz machines, or even back to the old Amigas. The fact is that Microsoft is not trying at all to produce a better operating system, they are just shoe-horning the PC version of windows onto these things. That is why it is so slow, and there is no excuse for it.
I'm pretty sure I just used my phone 5 minutes ago. I plan on using it again pretty shortly. Wanna go in depth, even just a smidgen?