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The T-Mobile River Shadow for 2009 has been crowned “the functionary earphone of merriment” by T-Mobile. This smartphone features the same 20-keystone keyboard as the master, and is powered by Windows Mobile River 6.1 Standard. The new Shadow also packs in a 2 megapixel photographic camera with video capture, and a new lawsuit designing. After disbursement a few weeks with this consumer-friendly smartphone, I’ve had a chance to see how well it lives up to the claim of “functionary earphone of fun.”
Physical Aspects
The T-Mobile River Shadow is a rather large earphone, measurement in at 104mm x 53mm x 15mm (4.1in x 2.1in x .6in) and weighing a beefy 150.3g (5.3oz). As expected from its dimensions, the T-Mobile Shadow feels large in the helping hand. The new rounded edges and corners don’t aid slim the phone down at all, either. On the summation position, in summation to look and intuitive feeling like a cooler, it’s built like 1, too. There are no inappropriate creaks that come from the Shadow when in manipulation, and the sliding mechanism is solid and smooth, with no wobble.
The T-Mobile Shadow that we reviewed is the ‘white mint candy’ colour outline, which offers flannel plastic on the outer edges, and a blackness plastic front. The backplate is where the mint candy comes from, with somewhat of a shimmery blue and flatware looking. Together, the various pieces of the earphone do not visually mesh with each other, giving the Shadow an odd bearing.
The focal point of the movement of the T-Mobile Shadow is the over-sized navigation bicycle/d-diggings. The outer margin of this rotating lap has small dimples, and functions like a scroll bicycle within the earphone’s various menus. You tin also, conveniently, manipulation the d-diggings as you normally would, depressing either the up, down, left, or right field directions, and we found this odd combination to employment surprisingly well. The center of the d-pad is outlined with a multicolor light that is used to notify you of various events. There are 6 buttons surrounding this d-diggings. On the left, you have the left softkey, with the ‘Home’ push button below, and the ‘Send’ key positioned below that. On the right field, you’ll find the right softkey, with the ‘Back’ button below, and the ‘End’ keystone below that. The softkeys are physical buttons that protrude from the casing and are very easy to find and pressure, piece the other four buttons ar simple bumps in an otherwise smooth area.
The large 2.6″ QVGA (240×320 pel) resolution display is bright and open, and is positioned on the movement of the earphone, just above the navigational keystone cluster. When you slide the phone open, you’ll discover the 20-key near-QWERTY keyboard, which, in addition to the habitue numeric keypad, has a few additional keys on either position, each with 2 letters of the rudiment. This keyboard layout offers the appliance of a full QWERTY keyboard, but in a smaller size of it, and deeds surprisingly wellspring. The Shadow is equipped with predictive text, and I was surprised to discovery that I could type rather quickly on this eccentric layout. Unfortunately, due to the weird label colors used, I was often unable to read the letters on the keys, which became frustrating. Also, the keyboard backlight is weak and uneven, resulting in only overtone miniature for nighttime use.
Along the right field margin of this smartphone is a dedicated photographic camera button, which tin be used to activate the photographic camera application. At the top of the right edge is the dedicated messaging key, which takes you straight to your electronic mail and SMS . However, you tin reprogram this push button in the earphone’s settings, to activate another application. The power button is located on the top of the earphone. On the left edge you’ll find the book cradle towards the top and the microSD circuit board one-armed bandit towards the freighter. The miniUSB port is located on the freighter margin of the phone, and is used for charging, information, and headsets. Luckily, an adapter is included in the loge, which allows users to easily connect a standard 3.5mm earphone jack. However, this adaptor is clad in gloss black, which only adds to the haphazard design cues of this peculiar smartphone.
On the backrest of the T-Mobile River Shadow is where you’ll discovery the 2 megapixel photographic camera, though there is no flash or ego-portrait mirror to be found. Behind the back cover is where the SIM card and powerful 1100mAh battery ar housed.
