David Pogue, New York Times consumer tech writer, has a no holds barred article unabashedly praising and then trashing T-Mobile’s newest device, the Shadow.

Pogue outlines the newish environment where T-Mobile and former Apple designer have designed a device with some great innovative features and taken the third-party manufacturer (apparently HTC is the manufacturer, if you believe ZDNet) out of the picture, designed their own device and rethought a few key features. The list of praise is impressive including a rethought click-wheel for scrolling plus directional buttons for up, down, left, right selections and a Blackberry Pearl style keypad licensed from RIM. But then, Pogue says, “you turn it on.” You see, its fatal mistake is it’s running Windows Mobile 6.

Pogues’ rant reminds me of my own review of the Windows Mobile 5 Samsung Blackjack.

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