T-Mobile HTC Shadow II

(6.5 out of 10)

For “the official phone of fun,” we couldn't find a whole lot to get excited about with the new T-Mobile Shadow...

When you pay a premium to get cell phone service all over the globe, there’s something undeniably silly about using the same expensive minutes to make calls from your house when there’s a perfectly usable Wi-Fi connection sitting around. You could hop on Skype and make calls for cheap, of course, but the inconvenience of that process compared to just dialing a friend means that most people never take advantage of it. The latest version of T-Mobile’s Shadow cuts the complication out of the equation by automatically connecting to available Wi-Fi networks, and offering customers unlimited minutes through it (as long as they’ve paid $10 a month for the premium Unlimited HotSpot Calling package). While it’s not the only phone with this functionality, it’s the first Windows Mobile device to do it. Together with a larger screen and more curvaceous profile, T-Mobile hopes to sell old Shadow fans on a new “official phone of fun.” But is this modest upgrade enough to revive a so-so model from 2007? We put the 2009 model to the test to find out. Continue reading full review @ Digital Trends