T-Mobile Shadow gets legit!
We’re not going to say we told you so, but wow, were we on the money or what? The T-Mobile Shadow has gone legit, and just as we reported, it will be the first device in the Shadow series. The Shadow brand T-Mobile tells us, is a brand that "will become synonymous with playful, easier and richer communications experiences offered only by T-Mobile®." The device sports EDGE, and Wi-Fi, enhanced myFaves, a refined custom Windows Mobile 6 UI, a spin navigator, fun lights, and a 2 megapixel camera. The T-Mobile Shadow is indeed a slider phone featuring a SureType-like keyboard, and it sports a totally great screen for picture and video viewing. We’ll put one through the paces in the next day or so and let you know what we think, but if you just can’t wait for us, you can start picking them up at any T-Mobile retail store on Wednesday for only $149.99 on 2-year agreement. Hats off to T-Mobz for the pricing, this is sure to be a great seller!
I’ve seen a couple of reps with these and they are actually nice looking, but the UI can get a little sluggish though. The scrollwheel lets you glide through playlist and tracks. Real nice for the price.
I was at a T-Mobile store today and a rep pulled one of these out of his pocket. Not bad but the color (sage green) was beyond ugly. The interface was also sporting some serious ugly. If they had improved the interface design and consulted someone that knows green is fugly then this might be a bit more exciting, sadly.
I am really looking forward to this phone. It makes using WM so much easier than on the Wing or Dash.
On a side note, why can I not access the full http://www.boygeniusreport.com website from my phone anymore?? It was pretty nice it the past to be able to but now it is so limiting that it takes the fun out of it.
Does anyone know if this will be a hotspot@home phone? Since it has WiFi.
How is this supposed to be a transition device for those who are no longer into the Sidekick? Why would anyone want to go from the SK keyboard to the double-key one on this?
It’s supposed to support hotspot@home, supposedly, after bugs are fixed with the Windows Mobile 6 OS. I keep reading in the posts that it should be available — I’m guessing with a software update — at the beginning of next year.
It’s a pretty good concept with poor choices made on the colors and keypad. The UI and the price are pretty good. Over all it is a pretty solid phone and unbeatable price. I hope it will soon support hot spot @ home.
thats what i want to know too. what is that pink bowlseye thing for?
a 2.6″ display on a non-japanese slider phone is a great feature if you ask me. I’m impressed. Who actually manufactures the phone for t-mobile?
HTC manufactures it.
I imagine this didn’t actually get the VGA screen that was rumored. That would just be too good to be true…
i am coming from a pearl and ms my suretype every time i use my sony e. it sucks that it isnt coming w/ a flash
The pink bulls-eye is the hotspot@home logo. apparently this phone supports it….
why would someone switch from an sk to this fugly device is beyond my comprehension
I still can not get over fact that it doesn’t support UMA calling, I still cant understand why. there is another windows mobile smartphone that supports UMA calling(look on umatoday.com for that phone), so I do not believe it when they say they are still working out bugs on that. This would have been perfect for me, it would have been enough for me to buy their @home service.
I will be picking up one of these to replace my pearl. I actually like the suretype keyboard and having seen a dummy unit the keys are about twice as big as the keys on my pearl.
As for why this and not a sidekick. 1)its smaller 2)its cheaper, 3)the letters on the sidekick lx keyboard are really small, 4)there are a ton of great WM apps out there, 5)if you dont text alot i dont see the benefit of the sidekick
Why any phone over a sidekick? I don’t know.. probably because sidekicks are for 16 year olds. I laugh hard everytime I see an adult pull one of those out at a bar. The pearl does everything a sidekick can do, and it’s tiny. A sidekick, however, is awesome if you want to throw it at someone to hurt them.
i would definitely consider this over the sidekick lx if it had a phone specific data plan like the sidekick
you just cant beat unlimited text and data for $20
does anyone know if there is going to be a specific plan for this device? i guess its possible since this is going to be a new line for tmobile like the sidekicks
I wouldn’t say I laugh everytime i see an adult pull one out a the bar, but I really laugh when I see someone, or encouter a customer who decides they want it to use the sidekick as a business phone. The shadow does so much more than the LX, and for the price its definately a much better value.