I am finicky about the quality of calls. In fact, I rarely praise of a telephone call quality - until now. In my experience, the navy blue-Wing T-Mobile ($ 300 with a two-year contract) sounded terrific. While on call, I heard virtually none of the witness or hissing background noise that usually betrays the fact that I am on a cell phone. And the people I talked to note that I sound very clear - although on a jetway noise at airports. Call quality is not the only force of the wing: It also offers impressive battery life and a robust range of features.

The phone - the first to ship preloaded with Windows Mobile 6.0 (T-Mobile also brings Windows Mobile 6 available as an upgrade for the Dash) - has many features, including an image and video camera, messaging and the Familiar Windows-type system with the application menu to go. The mobile phone with Office includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint (you can view, create and edit documents); Windows Live Mobile for Windows (Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail Windows Live, Live Search, Live Spaces), Windows Media Player, And My Documents folder structure for storing files and multimedia. Other applications include Instant Messaging (for use with AOL, Yahoo and ICQ), Java applications, a T-Mobile HotSpot log-in shortcut, and a voice recorder.

The wing comes with a 2.8-inch touch screen (T-Mobile bundles a stylus with the phone, but I tend to count on my fingers to do the walking). Six highly sensitive buttons and a navigation mode to five under the control of on-screen display to make one-handed navigation a breeze. Drag the screen on the left, and automatically reroutes the screen in landscape view himself to accompany your typing space. Keyboard keys are large and flat, with backlighting that makes use of the device in an environment clouded a breeze. I found the wing surprisingly comfortable for thumb-typing when I held the camera with both hands, as a touch typist, I was surprised to see how fast I could type (small I Hands, a friend with larger hands find the keyboard difficult to navigate).

Unfortunately, other aspects of the design of the phone are less appealing. Specifically, I found many buttons on the phone difficult perimeter of the press and poorly constructed. For example, the volume slider, near the middle of the phone, along the left side, is difficult to deal with the pad of my finger (if you have long nails, it is perhaps not a problem).

The dedicated camera button is located on the top left of the camera when the phone is oriented vertically, and in the upper right when the phone is in the horizontal - the best way to use the camera. But the button is flat and difficult to press. When I click, I often accidentally twisted phone slider mechanism, too, which makes me worry about the long-term integrity of this crucial part of the phone. By clicking on the camera phone launched the 2 megapixel CMOS digital camera with a digital zoom 8X (for low-resolution images) and a video camera (capable of capturing clips with a maximum speed of 176 by 174 resolution), but the phone considerably delayed, while Cameras popped up.

I suspect that some of my problems with the phone can be over 6 of Windows Mobile that the device itself. The Communications Manager app, for example, is home to a dizzying array of possibilities - the vibrating ringer settings and data GPRS and EDGE-connection minutiae. To disable wireless antennae and put the phone in flight mode, I had to go through three screens - more before I found a useful shortcut - just go to the point of Communications Manager where I could turn off the radio without wire.

Like the T-Mobile MDA, Wing (underlying model number HERA110) is manufactured and designed for T-Mobile by HTC. T-Mobile says that the wing is about 30 percent less than the MDA. It certainly feels more compact than the MDA, weighs 6 ounces and measuring 2.3 by 4.3 by 0.7 inches. Once closed, the Wing is dominated by its 240-by-320-resolution, 65000 colors, touch screen. When opened, it suggests a bright version of T-Mobile Sidekick III.
The Wing is a quad-band GSM, with the support of 850 - 900 - 1800 - 1900 - MHz. He launched a 201-MHz OMAP850 processor, with 64MB of RAM and 128 megabytes of read-only memory. According to T-Mobile, the default phone comes with 26MB of free memory and 16 MB of storage available. You can add storage for multimedia and data files via the MicroSD card connector.

The wing hardliners in the full 10 hours, which marks the ceiling of the PC World Test Center evaluation of the battery life. His performances as well as matches such models as the T-Mobile MDA (which replaces the model) and the RIM BlackBerry 8300 Curve - our most recently tested more efficient.

The phone comes with a case and an assortment of cables and connectors. The 258-page manual covers all important issues, but unfortunately, T-Mobile does not include a copy of the manual on the phone itself in PDF format so that you could see on the loading Adobe Acrobat Reader LE. When I sought help in the phone, the help file included Microsoft did not address my needs.

For $ 300, T-Mobile Wing is a reasonable value, given the versatile functionality of the phone, call quality stellar, and excellent battery life. My greatest concern about the participation of his telephone limited on-board storage and its buttons poorly built; long term, I? D worry about the integrity of this mechanism cursor. But those concerns aside, Wing made a great offer, especially if you value ease of entry has a touch screen, with the flexibility of the Windows Mobile computing.