T-Mobile Shadow in the concrete jungle!
I guess you could sort of say we’re on a roll with the HTC Shadow…We won’t keep you in the dark much longer, though. (Sorry, had to!) Thanks to one of our readers, we just scored some photo snaps of T-Mobile’s Shadow device. It is, in fact, the HTC Juno / HTC Phoebus! He told us that it might actually be a VGA screen as the display is just remarkable. The device is "very glossy", and you can see the screen in direct sunlight no problem, as well. The button in the middle of the phone is actually a scroll wheel and it also performs the duties of a 4-way navigational pad. He also goes on to tell us that we should inform everyone that while the color choices of brown and sage green sound tacky, they are indeed "very classy and look great." The sage green device has a light champagne colorization on the front, and the back is a soft-touch rubberized finish in a sage green shade. The brown, is well, sparkly brown. Want to check out the rest of the shots? They’re in our gallery!
Click on over to our T-Mobile Shadow gallery!
It comes out tomorrow, Halloween.
umm it has a 2mp camera
October 31st is the release date at the Creve Coeur store in St. Louis, MO. Got this info from a reliable source that works at T-mobile.
I would like a better Pocket PC other than the SLOW Wing. Something like the AT&T Tilt because it has a 400 Mhz Qualcom proc. I just doubt that T-Mobile will introduce a nice PDA until 3G is launched which could be another year or so while the US Govt. vacates T-Mobile’s new 1700 Mhz spectrum.
I went to the mall yesterday. This is a really cool phone. I was waiting for a nice phone from Tmobile and I guess I’ve seen it last night. I placed my order today and hope to get it next week. it is $200 and $50 dollar rebate.
Can’t wait!
the device does not support @Home. I contacted a HTC friend of mine on this, if it did, I told her, that would be the hilt hit on the device
I got my shadow yesterday and so far I really like it. I was using the dash which I also really liked.
So far the down side:
The screen is hard to keep clean. Lots of finger prints and smudges so I am worrying about wiping it off and scratching it. Thinking about using a screen protector.
The nav wheel doesn’t seem to work real well, you have to turn it a lot and there is not much control but maybe I am not used to it.
Upside:
The suretype text isn’t too bad. This is from someone who send 2000 text messages a month. It took a while to get used to and I almost wish they would have just used a standard phone keypad layout.
The touch and feel of everything is great. it hums right along and all my 3rd party apps work just fine. Balance is great.
This is a great phone for people that loved the SDA. It is more like a phone than a blackberry which is just what I was looking for.
I have it.
Just bought yesterday.
It’s pretty awesome if you guys are not really into something of perfection. I used the iPhone for 3 months before and I prefer this phone personally.
I love the schemes. It looks pretty pro and very useful. The camera is pretty good, I suppose the pixels are exactly the same as other smartphones and iPhone. Its quality are beyond 2.0MP
The core is pretty slow, but I don’t need to do anything fast but emailing and internet, that’s cool anyways.
I bought this for $150 ($172 with tax). Buy the 17$ 2GB MicroSD in Fry’s and some certain bluetooth headset, you’re good to go for the next 2 years, I’m pretty sure.
The Shadow does use the battery quickly. Here’s a tip. Go to the task mamager and turn off all the tasks you have running. Only turn them on when you need it. Suddenly, you will have pretty good battery life!
it has 2.0 mp
I have this phone and i dont really recommend it to anyone. The battery dies quickly even with little or no usage. And when I say quickly… I mean within 5 hours your down to 1 bar left. It takes around 2 minutes to boot up but it takes around 20 minutes before you can use it because its starting all the windows applications. It freezes up A LOT and when you try to use the task manager, it doesn’t show the open applications. It is better than the Sidekick, but you will get this phone and fall in love for the first week, than it will start dying on you and freezing and you’ll wanna throw it at something. It’s up to you to get the phone, but I would NOT suggest to do so.