My T-Mobile Wing

So, after sticking with sprint for about 6 years, I finally grew tired of their crap; the random extra charges, bad service, crappy non-gsm phones (though they suddenly seem to have some good ones)…you get the idea. I made the decision to change change my sprint service on a kinda whim, as I was standing on the corner of 14th st and 6th ave. I walked across the street, walked into a store and said, “I’d like to change my service please. And while you’re at it, could I have a new phone.”

I started to looked through the stacks and spreads of phones on display and very soon fell in love with the look and feel of the TMO Wing. So I got it. Let me just say here that the Wing is probably the most amazing phone in North America right now (because we all know that the Japanese probably have a phone that flies and fits in your cuff links!). O.k, so maybe it kinda ties with the I-phone, but It’s got some pretty awesome features- check out netfxharmonics for a some reflections on the TMO Wing.

Anyway, I’m not going to reinvent the wheel– the above link will have almost EVERYTHING you want to know about the awesomeness of the Wing. I will instead be publishing some issues AND solutions I’ve encountered since I got my phone about a week and a half ago.

Issue 1 - Can’t get my e-mail on my T-mobile Wing.

The Wing, right out of the box, allows you to set up your e-mail and have it downloaded to the “desktop” of your phone, so that with just a touch of your fingertip or styllus, you can read all your e-mail! It supports pretty much any e-mail you use– from outlook to gmail and more! Now that’s all dandy init? Until you realize it doesn’t work, then it’s a pain in the butt! Basically what was happening was that though my e-mail was supposed to be all set up by following the VERY intuitive leads the phone gave (i.e. e-mail address field means enter your e-mail address, password field means enter PW etc.), I didn’t see any e-mail in my inbox on the phone! I tried re-setting my phone 3 times, setting up the e-mail account again 5 times and everything else in between. the I spent precious sleep hours online scouring the web for an answer, but many people had the same issues I did, and others had no problem at all when setting up from the box– there just was no answer…that is until this afternoon when I stumbled across a forum that gave me the answer. You can see the forum here if you’re interested–it’s the last post.

THE SOLUTION: When entering the “username” make sure it reads “recent:’username’” SO, a username like ‘john.smith’ would read “recent:john.smith”. That’s it! Please don’t ask me why or how, but I can tell you that that’s all it takes to stop you from pulling out your hair in frustration! If it doesn’t work and you figure something else out, please, PLEASE post it in the comments section and share with other readers. If on the other hand it does work, please feel free to stroke my ego for helping you out :). Good luck.