Today is the day for the official release of the T-Mobile Wing and the reviews are coming in. I decided to list the ones I found here.
- pocketnow.com
- cnet
- PCmag.com
- MobileTechReview (added 5/23/07)
- Pocket PC Thoughts (added 5/24/07)
Basically the Wing is an evolutionary upgrade to the MDA with Windows Mobile 6 Professional (touch screen). If you are looking for a next generation device, this is not the device for you. However if you want a production version of Windows Mobile 6, incrementally better (from the MDA) Bluetooth radio/GSM radio, and a 2MP camera then the Wing is for you and me.
Hopefully I will own one later today and I can start comparing it to my MDA.
I got the Wing myself today - unfortunatly I cannot get the Windows Mobile Device Center to connect to it....it sits and thinks for awhile, then says, "error". Post here if you get it working!! (btw - I tried both the installer on the disc included with the wing, and I also tried the downloadable version from windowsmobile.com for vista 32bit)
Posted by: Andrew Jones | May 22, 2007 at 11:13 PM
I have not had any problems with the Mobile Device Center (WMC) version 6.0.6783. I have been using it with my MDA and yesterday I created a BT partnership with my Wing and my Lenovo X60. WMC found and installed the appropriate drivers for the Wing (even a blue PDA icon) and it works well. I never even had to use a cable. I used the download version of WMC. They do mention that you have to must manually remove any previous version of WMC.
I would uninstall WMC, download WMC from MS, reinstall and try creating a new partnership for Wing. The other thing you may want to try is turning off User Access Control (UAC) while you are installing and creating a partnership with the Wing.
Let me know how things work out.
Posted by: Stephen Skarlatos | May 23, 2007 at 07:35 AM
I got the Wing today and I couldn't get it to sync w/ either vista or xp, also received an error. After speaking w/ 3 reps (who were all very cool and nice,) it ended up being a setting I had to check. I also tried everything above.
The setting was:
Start>Settings> Connections> USB to PC>
then check mark the box and "ok."
Posted by: Aurora | May 26, 2007 at 02:39 AM