T-Mobile Wing Review

Overall 4.20 of 5 view all 5 reviews

davevanos
Grand Rapids, MI

Great Phone, but only if you mod the OS

Every day computer user

Pros

good camera, wifi, Easily Modded

Cons

No GPS, Small touchy keyboard

JUL

2008

T-Mobile Wing —

The T-Mobile Wing is top notch. It feels great, looks smooth and runs like a little dream. Of course, the only downside to the phone is the T-Mobile ROM that it initially runs off of. The interface is slow, clunky and causes the phone to lock up and crash quite frequently.

Fortunately this can be fixed without much effort.

Simply head over to http://forum.xda-developers.com and choose a new ROM for your Wing. Just be sure to carefully read and follow the ROM flashing instructions... One misstep will brick your phone forever.

Personally, I had no trouble installing a custom ROM. Now the phone is faster, allows overclocking for games and I'm even able to use non T-Mobile programs (google maps, opera mini, etc). The very fact that this phone can be easily customized and tweaked to your liking puts it right up there at the top of my list.

The only complaint I have is that the keyboard is a bit crunched together. It seems that every time I am writing an email, one of my fingers bumps the send button as I am typing... And off goes an incomplete email... Over and over again. I've finally given up on attempting to write any emails that are more than a few sentences.

Other than that, and the lack of built in GPS, this phone is great.