PhoneScoop reviews the HTC Shadow: “The HTC Shadow’s (T-Mobile) battery life on this phone is not as good as it could be. I was very dissapointed when I learned that the phone would use a much smaller battery than any other smartphone. I know that it supports the style and form factor of the HTC Shadow, but it feels like if I am just looking through the phone that the battery will begin to drain. It feels like it’s getting better over time, but that may be that I am just getting used to it.

The HTC Shadow freezes from time to time when I close applications in the Task Manager. If you dont push anything it will pick itself back up, but it can be frustrating.

This is just a personal con of the HTC Shadow, you can’t listen to music while you take pictures. On my SDA with half the memory I could do that! But it isn’t really a big deal so I wont take that out of the score.

On the positive side, the HTC Shadow for T-Mobile is beautiful! The screen is amazining and clear. So what that it is not VGA resolution, that would destroy the battery even more. The scroll wheel is a little sluggish, but it works well and gets the job done when I dont feel like using the d pad.

I am really enjoying using WM6. It displays the icons very crisp and clear, and if you are coming from WM5, then you will appreciate the tiny differences between them.

The body of the HTC Shadow is built very strongly. If you have the phone and dont want to get the screen smudged, then slide the phone up from the bottom.

Initially the HTC Shadow’s call quality concerned me, but the more calls that I have made, the results have been better. The speakerphone is loud, but sort of has a high pitch to it. The camera pictures are very crisp, but are kinda poor in color saturation.

Using SureType has been a snap for me. When I first got it I was concerned, but now I really like it. It’s a great, inexpensive smartphone.”

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