jcborgeson
22-12-2007, 12:10 AM
Been playing with a couple of T-Mobile Wing devices for evaluation as an offered product for our corporate customers...
My team has found a few flaws right out of the box everyone should be aware of:
1. Attachments sent from Outlook 2003 to a POP email account accessed by the Wing will not show up on the wing unless the user who created the message and the attachment selects "Plain Text" in Outlook. Very annoying for all Outlook based companies.
2. File Explorer will not connect to any network resource via Wi-Fi even if the user puts in an explicit IP address and share name as follows: \\10.0.0.7\SharedDrive
Permissions on the shared folder do need to be set to Everyone and Full Access if the device accessing the share is not a domain user. None the less, the Wing will respond with "The network path cannot be found" despite being pingable from the device hosting the share.
3. Synchronizing contacts and email to Outlook via ActiveSync and a USB cable has been quite reliable with no observed limitations however synchronizing a calendar for 3 months forward & back is simply not possible. It'll hang ActiveSync (wcescomm) on the host PC every time even with as few as 20 calendar entries in Outlook behind and ahead of the current date. This was tested very thoroughly on Windows XP, 2000 Pro and Vista with multiple Wing devices as it was a deal killer for our customers.
So far we're holding off on allowing these or recommending these to our users. We still recommend the XDA IIs for people that really need this type of functionality.
My team has found a few flaws right out of the box everyone should be aware of:
1. Attachments sent from Outlook 2003 to a POP email account accessed by the Wing will not show up on the wing unless the user who created the message and the attachment selects "Plain Text" in Outlook. Very annoying for all Outlook based companies.
2. File Explorer will not connect to any network resource via Wi-Fi even if the user puts in an explicit IP address and share name as follows: \\10.0.0.7\SharedDrive
Permissions on the shared folder do need to be set to Everyone and Full Access if the device accessing the share is not a domain user. None the less, the Wing will respond with "The network path cannot be found" despite being pingable from the device hosting the share.
3. Synchronizing contacts and email to Outlook via ActiveSync and a USB cable has been quite reliable with no observed limitations however synchronizing a calendar for 3 months forward & back is simply not possible. It'll hang ActiveSync (wcescomm) on the host PC every time even with as few as 20 calendar entries in Outlook behind and ahead of the current date. This was tested very thoroughly on Windows XP, 2000 Pro and Vista with multiple Wing devices as it was a deal killer for our customers.
So far we're holding off on allowing these or recommending these to our users. We still recommend the XDA IIs for people that really need this type of functionality.