We look at sellers of unreleased phones on eBay much the same way we look at the FCC's device approval database: fun for window shopping, but that's about it. We're not sure we'd personally part with enough cash to find out whether the seller of this particular HTC
Shadow II for T-Mobile actually has the thing to sell us, though we can totally understand why well-heeled folk might be willing to give it a go (and if we had enough money to buy a phone straight off an FCC lab, we'd probably be living somewhere in a private archipelago with no phone service to start with). The long-rumored smartphone seems to change colors every time we see it, with this latest pack of photos suggesting a glossy black front with dark red gradient accents -- not bad, we'll admit. Like the
original, the Shadow II packs WiFi and a 2 megapixel camera, but when it launches later this year it'll come out of the box with Windows Mobile 6.1 and a decidedly friendlier industrial design. Oh -- and hopefully, a friendlier price than a functional prototype is currently commanding on auction.
[Thanks, Fernando]
posted Jun 7th 2008 3:27AM
Well that got snapped up quick.
Well, last time a brand new phone was released for an insane price on ebay, someone not only bought it, but got it. Stands to reason here are more idiots in this world than we might think...
Grab your tin-foil hats now iPhone lovers. The Shadow 2 is on ebay!
LoL... pre-iphone design.
Although I don't plan on getting it, love the BB Curve as it is, I hope this phone will support UMA.
it looks alright the shape reminds me of the old sony 700w
ew..
I have the current Shadow--love it except you can't turn off predictive texting--you can't just cycle through button number/letter values like any other cell phone. Hope they have fixed this, otherwise, I would never buy another one.....
Actually, I'm pretty sure you can. I had the Shadow for a while, and I think it's done by pressing and holding the "*" key. You can scroll through the normal text modes.
I haven't used the Shadow in some time, but I'm pretty sure that's how it's done.
I'm guessing this will have 3G, so I'm very interested in replacing my dash with this. I do wish T-Mobile would get some sort of more 'corporate' WinMo phones. I'm an Exchange admin, and we don't have, and never will have, a BES server, so RIM devices are out. What i'd like is my T-Mobile Dash (HTC S620) with 3G and a faster CPU... is that so much to ask?
nice
I got the first Shadow, and i'm loving it..This seems too round.
Well, it's nice to have a break from all the iPhone news, before they flood Engadget again on Monday.
Has anyone noticed the tiny ass picture id on the shadow when you call someone? Its pretty pointless I dont know why it would be so small when this phone is capable of so much.
The menus and settings and all that are designed and setup a little weird. Definitely not as organized as most others. I hope they would fix some of this, I do love the keyboard and texting though.
I really like the new version of this phone except for the red, not really a great color.
I'm most likely to wait to get this instead of the 1st version.
I hope the Shadow II will come in a variety of colors, colors that everybody will like unlike Sage & copper.
they should of kept the rectangle design of the first and hopefully we get a color selection of at least black and or gray.