T-Mobile Shadow Smartphone, Sage (T-Mobile) | 
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Category: Wireless
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Rating:  9 reviews
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Color: Sage
Media: Wireless Phone
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Model: Shadow
UPC: 610214615343
ASIN: B001FB5H2E
Release Date: September 5, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Trim, stylish smartphone in sage green with Windows Mobile 6 and enhanced user interface for easy navigation | | • | Compatible with T-Mobile's MyFaves service--unlimited calling to your five most called contacts | | • | 2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music; MicroSD expansion up to 4 GB; digital audio player | | • | Up to 6 hours of talk time, up to 144 hours (6 days) of standby time | | • | Includes: handset, battery, charger, wired stereo handsfree headset, USB cable, Y cable, carrying case, user manual |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Despite being a feature-rich, Windows Mobile 6-powered smartphone, the T-Mobile Shadow is designed to reduce the complexity often associated with many smartphones while maintaining all the powerful calling, messaging and picture sharing capabilities you expect. The Shadow's enhanced user-interface is based on the Windows Mobile 6 operating system, which enables you to view and edit Word and Excel documents as well as view emails in their original HTML format and enjoy quick access to contacts with the ability to search a call history and contacts database. This slider phone offers a large, brightly colorful 2.6-inch LCD screen and spinning scroll wheel for easy navigatoin. Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree communication and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion (up to 4 GB), built-in Wi-Fi networking, quad-band GSM connectivity with EDGE data services, and up to 5 hours of talk time. The copper version of the Shadow comes with an extra extended life battery for even more talk time. 
The easy-to-use T-Mobile Shadow smartphone provides access to personal email and IM buddies, ability to edit Microsoft Office documents, and quick connection to your Fave 5. | T-Mobile Service
The Shadow operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via T-Mobile's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go. It's compatible with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile. Download cool new games, HiFi Ringers (real songs by today's hottest artists), MegaTones (instrumental versions of songs), and wallpapers quickly, as well as stay connected via the Web, instant messaging, and email. With T-Mobile Contacts (formerly T-Mobile Address Book), you can store your phonebook on T-Mobile's network so even if you lose your phone, you don't lose your contacts. Contacts lets you import entries from Microsoft Outlook, .vcf files, or use .csv files to import from Yahoo!, Gmail, etc.; back up your phone's address book on our server with enhanced safety features; and store additional contacts on the server. 
The Shadow also features a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, and MicroSD expansion. | Phone Features
Teaming with manufacturer HTC, T-Mobile's Shadow offers an innovative design and simple user interface that strips out the complexity of traditional multi-function phones for a quick learning curve to all of this smartphone's communication and organization features. The 2.6-inch LCD screen has a 240 x 320-pixel resolution and support for a 65K color depth. The phone's face has a scrolling navigator button--which you can spin for faster scrolling through applications and contacts--complemented by send/end, home, back, and two soft keys for navigation. It smoothly slides up to reveal the alpha-numeric keypad that uses Blackberry's SureType keyboard layout, which places two letters per key. The phone has an internal 140 MB memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 4 GB in size). The internal phonebook is only limited by the available memory, and it offers multiple fields for phone numbers, and email/IM addresses. A special myFaves feature is integrated into the shadow, where a lighted navigation wheel gets you to your Fave 5 quickly and easily, enabling you to call, text, email, or IM with a single touch. You can customize your Fave 5 witha photo and icons you create or purchase from T-Mobile, as well as choose a distinct ringtone for each Fave. Access six email accounts--five personal and one work account--including Microsoft Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, Comcast, and AOL. Receive email the instant your computer does--no delay--and view attachments in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint plus Adobe PDFs. This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. The 2-megapixel camera provides a range of five resolutions and four quality settings, and it features white balance and brightness settings, and several shooting modes. It will also capture video clips for as long as you have available memory. The phone is compatible with text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messaging, as well as POP3 personal email accounts. It includes XT9 predictive text entry (the new version of the T9), with such features as a word prediction list and spelling correction that spots transposed letters and missed keys, as well as instant integration into all applications on the device. Other features include: - Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g) for fast web surfing on home/corporate networks and hotspots (not compatible with T-Mobile's Hotspot @Home service)
- Music playback: MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV
- Stay in synch with your Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks in Microsoft Outlook
- Send and receive instant messages with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or ICQ
- Reminder feature, so you never forget another friend's or family member's birthday or anniversary
- An array of lights and sounds that differentiate one function from another, whether you're receiving an e-mail, picture message or calendar appointment notification
- Speakerphone
- Voice-activated dialing enables you to make a call with simple voice commands when your hands are busy
- Processor: Texas Instruments OMAP 850, 200 MHz
- Memory: 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM (140 MB user accessible)
Vital Statistics
The T-Mobile Shadow weighs 5.3 ounces and measures 2.1 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches. Its 920 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 144 hours (6 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies. Powered by Windows Mobile 6
Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 updates the Windows Mobile 5 platform with a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file. With Windows Mobile 6, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affecting tables, images or text--as well as view PowerPoint presentations. - Microsoft Office Word Mobile features include spell-check, Find and Replace commands, bulleted lists, text formatting, and support for tables for the first time.
- With Excel Mobile, you're not just confined to editing charts: with the new Chart Wizard you can create charts quickly and easily.
- PowerPoint Mobile allows you to view the full presentation, rehearse timings, check the order and any live links you may have in your presentation. You can then email comments back to the team or communicate via MSN Messenger for an immediate response.
- After creating or editing a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can synchronize it with your PC and it will automatically be converted to the PC version.
All Windows Mobile 6 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.
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 Horrible phone July 4, 2008
This is a terrible phone. The sound was very low on the internal speaker. Well it was very low, it stopped working after about a month. So now I'm speaker phone only; or my bluetooth headset. Which is why I didn't take it right back while it was still under warranty, because I use my bluetooth headset all the time anyway. Still it's a hassle using speakerphone for every call when I'm at work where I can't wear the headset.
Now they've updated the firmware and now the bluetooth doesn't see any devices. So of the two of three ways you can listen to a call I'm now down to one way; speaker phone only.
The battery life is slow, and it's not helped by the horrible OS where when you close a program, you're not really closing the program you're just putting it in the background. To really close a program you have to go to the task manager and close it there. And that just gives a small bump in battery life.
Or how about the time ActiveSync synced my blank pc outlook address book to my smartphone and erased all my contacts. That was clever. Didn't these geniuses at M$ ever hear of a concept called "union" as in the union of two sets? Too bad apple does the same thing with their ipods as M$ does. The new version of ActiveSync now at least asks which way you want the data to go. I guess I had an older version, I never imagined sync means some thing else entirely than what I thought it meant.
And you see those pictures of your 'friends' in the circle in the product picture? You think, oh well that'll be kind of cool, use the wheel to wheel around to whoever you want to call. I can't review if that's cool or not because with tmobile; that's extra. I know this much, it ain't 4 bucks a month cool.
I'm so sick of these mobile phones with all their locked out or charge extra features.
 Very Slick Phone May 21, 2008
t-Mobile Shadow
I have had my t-mobile shadow now for 4 months. I absolutely love this phone in spite of its shortcomings (which are significant). Let me give you the simple break down.
Pros:
-Form factor rocks! I have yet to find a smart phone on the market that comes even close to being as comfortable to use and easy to function with one or two handed operation. The size, look, and feel of this phone rocks in every way. It also seems like it is holding up fairly well considering how hard I am on equipment.
-Screen brightness and readability are superior to any phone I have used before.
-Phone Call Clarity is very nice on this phone. I have no complaints about volume or audio quality, and the phone seems to get fairly good reception.
-The custom interface that t-mobile has included for the MyFav's is nice but I disabled it since I prefer the standard Windows Mobile interface and I don't use my favs.
-MicroSDHC support. The phone uses the MicroSD cards and supports the HC cards so I currently have a 4gb card that works great. I haven't tried the 8gb cards yet.
-Qwerty Keyboard is awesome. I have had not problem at all with the fact that there are two characters per key. The recognition system is awesome and after a week of use I am actually faster on this keyboard than I was on the full Qwerty keyboard on my BlackBerry.
Cons:
-Battery Life is my single largest complaint about this phone. If you plan on using a phone for two days or more without charging then this is not the phone for you. I use my phone to check email about 20 times a day and I make about 15 phone calls per day, I send about 10-15 text messages per day and that pretty much burns the entire battery by Midnight each day. For how much I use the phone I can expect about 18 hours of use before a recharge is required.
-Scroll wheel. The scroll wheel seems like it would be a nice addition but you have to turn it almost half a rotation to get it to scroll one position, so it is faster just to use it like a d-pad than a scroll wheel. I am hoping that a firmware update someday will fix this.
-Slightly slower performance. I have noticed that the phone does not handle some of the bigger applications I use as well. I use terminal services to remote manage some Microsoft servers that I have and it doesn't work very well on the phone. Most of the standard mobile apps work just fine though.
I hope this was helpful. Good Luck!
Best Phone I've Had Yet May 16, 2008
So, yes other customers are right. It has a slow processor but trust me, it's not THAT slow! It is slower than most phones, but is expected since it is a smartphone. Considering how many applications it's holding, it isn't a surprise. The best features for me have to be the Windows applications on this phone. Now I can travel with my documents from my PC and not worry. The battery life is another thing that's a little sketchy. It does NOT have a horrible battery, like the Samsung Blast, but it could be better, in which case the Shadow's battery lasts about a day and a half. Another idea is, if your not using your wifi, turn it off! It will save your battery. The formats on the phones applications highly make up for it, in which case they are quite amazing. The slider itself is quite durable and I'm confident that if I dropped it, it wouldn't be shattered all over the floor. I haven't had any problems hearing anyone on the other line, and there isn't 7 buttons that send a text (i.e. Samsung Trace). Overall it is the best phone I've owned, and smartphone wise it's a good deal (especially if you get it from Cartoys and not T-mobile itself).
if you are looking for real phone - this isn't it April 6, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
following all the "hype" around the new Shadow, I thought I would give it a try. I was planing to upgrade for a while, but wanted to wait until the "right one" comes along. I thought the shadow would be it, but I was dead wrong.
Yes, it looks very impressive. yes, it's "neo" interface is cool and even easy to navigate, and yes - on paper its list of features is impressive. But that is pretty much it.
Before I decided to get the Shadow, I did my research - I think I read everything available on line about this phone. Two main issues kept coming up: slow processor and very short battery life. Wanting to get the shadow, I convinced my self that other reviewers just didn't know what they were doing: they left their WiFI and blue tooth on all time, they left many processes running in the background, in short - self convincing at its best.
I took the Shadow for the 14 days trail period, and after less then a week it was clear that it was going back.
I wont even go into all of the problems (and there are quite a few), just that after a few days I had to say to myself "hold on buddy, you need to clear your head from all this gadgets stuff and go back to basics", which was true: I am a serious tech fun, but at the end of the day I wanted first and for most a phone! and at this point the Shadow simply does not deliver!
I want a phone that I can put in my pocket and know that it is there when I need it, without being concerned all the time if I can make it to the next plug to recharge (Yes - the battery life is ridiculesly short). I want to be able to hear the person on the other end of the line clearly, without turning the volume all the way up, and even then looking for a quite corner (and yes - I did take the plastic cover off the earpiece)
I talked to T mobile reps. several times and hit a wall. obviously, they are aware of these problems, since they are pretty much on every review, but all they did was to try and explain to me that "if you want a small smart phone, you need to compromise" are you kidding me? I am not interested in the physics behind the issue! if you can't make it to work properly, don't market it and that's it. A phone that at best holds a charge for a day is simply not acceptable, no matter how many bells and whistles you add to it.
the end? I brought the Shadow back, got to hear the sales rap. telling the lady on the other side of the line, at t mobile, that they must do something about these issues, since its the third Shadow people return during a single day, and took a Nokia 6263. there is no way around it - Nokia where and apparently still are, the best Phones! sturdy, good size, great battery life, excellent sound quality, and on top of all that - this phone can do anything the shadow does, in an easier, more elegant way - e-mails, IM, pics, video, web surfing, music playing, excellent "predictive text", and even a radio - simply great.
don't fall for all the commotion - get a decent real phone, not a toy.
 Love it!!! February 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This phone is gold! everything I want in a phone is here. I can access my email, get on myspace (lol), instant message, txt message fast and accurately (love the keypad), and play Nintendo games on my phone when im bored. To all complaining about battery life, turn wi-fi off when your not using it and open the task manager to shut off programs that your not using. My battery life is waaaay better than my old RAZR. Call quality is better than what various reviews suggest; this was my main concern when purchasing this phone. I Definitely recommended this phone!
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