T-Mobile Wing Review - Making/Receiving Calls
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Alfredo Padilla Published on June 05, 2007 Comment on this |
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Dialing Speed (3.66)
Talk and End Buttons (6.0)
The talk and end buttons are located to the left and right of the D-Pad near the bottom of the phone. Both keys are surrounded by two buttons, but they are raised above these, which makes them easier to find by feel. They are also made of a slightly different material, a hard and smooth plastic rather than the soft touch finish that covers most of the phone. When pressed, they provide good tactile feedback, and we had no problem telling when they had been pressed. We were pleased with the quality and differentiation of the talk and end buttons on the Wing. Call Management (7.5)
The call history on the T-Mobile Wing is the standard Windows Mobile call history. There is a chronological list of both incoming and outgoing calls. You can filter this list by missed, outgoing, or incoming calls. Each item in the list has an indicator showing what type of call it is, as well as the number, and time of the call. When you select an item, you are taken to a list of all calls to or from that number as well as information about the duration of each call. You can save any phone number in the call history to your contacts, delete them individually, or delete all of them, all via the right soft key menu. Unfortunately, there are not total call timer or data trackers. The call history is only limited by the available memory.
Startup to Call (1.59)
To test how quickly the phone can start up and make a call, we time this process for each of five different test phone numbers. We take the average for our score. The T-Mobile Wing took 62.86 seconds to complete this process. This is a poor score, much longer than the Treo 750's 42.26 seconds, but less the Blackberry 8800's 65 seconds. Still, to be fair, it's not the only Windows Mobile phone to put up a poor score in this test as the T-Mobile Dash took 76 seconds and the Motorola Q took just as long.
Ring Volume (8.53)
To test ring volume, we find the loudest ringtone on the device and turn the volume up to full. We then use a sound pressure meter to measure how loud the ring gets. The T-Mobile Wing measured 85.3 decibels in our test. This is about average for phones, a little louder than the Treo 750's 83.2 decibels and the T-Mobile Dash's 84.5 decibels. The ring should be loud enough for most people to hear it easily even when in a pocket.
Ringtone Customizibility (6.0)
As with other Windows Mobile devices, the T-Mobile Wing does allow you to use music files are ringtones simply by placing them in the My Ringtones folder. The device is able to use Mp3, AAC, and WMA files as ringtones. We were pleased to see this functionality as it means that you don't have to go out and pay a lot of money to buy the ringtones from your wireless carrier if you already own the song. The Wing does not include software to create or edit ringtones on the device.
Non Audio Alerts (6.0)
The T-Mobile Wing has a vibrate alert that is a little weaker than we would like. We were able to feel it in our pants pocket but are worried that in a jacket pocket or a bag you will not notice it. In addition to the vibration, there is also an on screen alert that shows you what number is calling.
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