Mobileburn has reviewed the latest smartphone on T-Mobile: the Shadow. Overall, it appears to be a great smartphone … for novices.

“The T-Mobile Shadow, built by HTC, is the first Windows Mobile 6 device to sport Microsoft’s new Neo home screen. Neo is an attempt at making the power of a smartphone accessible to novice users, users that have traditionally shied away from such devices because of its complexity. On top of that, the Shadow has a very compelling design, and offers messaging fans a new 20 key QWERTY-like keypad that should make the phone’s XT9 predictive text input system both faster and more accurate. That’s something that goes well with the Shadows built-in IM clients, email and SMS support, and large 2.6″ display.”

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