[Wing, P4350 Herald Upgrading] suemccartin:
ways tmobile can make the wing better........

I like my wing, but quite honestly the mda was a better phone in several ways (build it is just a much more solid phone and the back doesn't fall off all the time either like it does on the Wing), not the least of which it isn't packed with garbage I don't use. We supposedly have 3G service in several areas around me, not in st. petersburg, florida yet but it is in tampa (just over the bridge) and clearwater 45 minutes away so I'm hoping for service in my neighborhood soon; yes for what they charge for this phone it should have 3G capability, I'm hoping that can be added with firmware updates but again knowing tmobiles attitude in the past I ain't holding my breath. If tmobile had released a mobile 6 upgrade and myfaves support for the MDA I would have kept my MDA but their attitude seems to be one of planned obsolescence so you're forced to purchase a new phone when you want new stuff (and if you don't qualify for a cut rate upgrade yet, all the better because they get a lot of cash out of you for that). I've been looking at the G1 but it doesn't do video it doesn't seen to have the tethering setup so I can use it with a laptop and it would cost me nearly as much as I had to fork out for my wing to upgrade. I'm hearing battery life on the G1 is next to miserable, while the wing has pretty good life with the extended battery even if bluetooth is running all the time. I've been pricing other service providers that offer a better selection of pda phones and some version of myfaves but so far I can't match the price of tmobile's plan.

Right now I pay 100.00 for 600 anytime minutes with myfaves(unlimited calls/minutes to five numbers that you can change at the beginning of every month), free evenings after 9pm, free weekends and 400 text msgs and unlimited internet, plus I have a voip home phone for only ten bucks (included in the 100.00) I can't beat that with a stick at least in my area. I like the windows mobile 6 but they have sooo much garbage on the wing that many packages just won't run. Tmobile needs to release a bare bones firmware for the Wing that lets you pick and choose what you want, this would allow several things, like my gps package that ran perfectly on the MDA to work on the wing. When the phone first got released they said the miniSD slot was not SDHC compatible but they fixed that with a firmware update...if that was possible I'm hoping the 3G compatibility is a similar process, for all I paid for this damn thing I feel I deserve that and since they have no other phones like the wing....I really feel it's incumbent upon them.

I like my wing and the slideout keyboard, I hate tmobile's apparent policy of planned obsolescence not upgrades to a very expensive phone. There are custom roms out there but doing that you take a risk of turning your phone into a brick not a phone, I love the google maps for handheld and now yahoo has a similar product as well (that I don't like as well), if you're out and can't find an address between the two programs you can get where you're going and I really like google's easy to use search facility that lets you ask about mcdonald's or the post office and will look around you and find it for you. I do wish the wing had built in GPS but if you think about it, would you want your expensive phone sitting on the dash where it will get hot or would you rather perch a 50.00 bluetooth gps up there to accomplish the same thing? My phone works great with the bluetooth gps so having it onboard really doesn't seem to concern me other than yahoo maps doesn't seem to be able to find the bluetooth gps (for which I blame the program not the phone). Tmobile can make me happy by fixing several things here but I'm not holding my breath that they will; they seem content to rape you for a new phone not fix things. Probably only a class action suit will change their attitude, hopefully somebody files one...that's all I can say.