T-Mobile Tap Phone, Berry
Friday, February 19th, 2010
- 3G-enabled touchscreen phone in berry with intuitive interface and customizable home screen
- Compatible with T-Mobile’s 3G network (available in select markets); T-Mobile’s myFaves service provides unlimited calling to your five most called contacts; GPS-enabled with optional TeleNav service
- 2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; microSD memory expansion to 8 GB; access to personal email and instant messaging
- Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user manual
Amazon.com Product Description
The stylish T-Mobile Tap touchscreen phone makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family while adding flair to your mobile communications. Enabled for T-Mobile’s expanding high-speed 3G network, the T-Mobile Tap offers fast data delivery and an enhanced Web-browsing experience that lets you connect quickly to social networking sites.
The 3G-enabled, T-Mobile Tap touchscreen phone with GPS capabilities, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder and microSD memory expansion. Featuring a compact design, the T-Mobile Tap also offers a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, GPS for use with location based services powered by TeleNav, Bluetooth for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, digit… More >>
A Customer says:
February 19th, 2010
6:51 pm
Lots of people want a touchscreen phone, but most of the models available are expensive with lots of high-end hardware. A touchscreen display is just an alternative interface, and there is no reason why only expensive phones should have it.
The first thing I noticed is that the touchscreen, though it is of the cheaper “resistive” type, actually works OK. A resistive touchscreen is the older kind, with a thin flexible plastic layer which you press your finger against, and it bends to make a connection with the layer beneath it (compared to the “capacitative” type, which is a solid surface that can sense your finger’s touch by its electrical field effect). I actually found that some of the HTC-made capacitative screens require more pressure to work than the Tap.
The menu is simple, well-organized, and offers a “widget” bar on the main screen. The widget bar is a one-dimensional stack of regular menu options, which you can “drag-and-drop” onto the main screen.
Despite the great standard setup and the cool widget bar, the phone lacks more advanced shortcut and customization options. The settings menu is fairly straight-forward, but also doesn’t offer as much as more advanced phones. It lacks a key feature missing from most phones, which is the ability to make shortcuts directly to Java applications (such as an email-provider’s app, or Google maps, or the Opera browser).
The web browser works fairly fast. The phone has 3g access, which is not available in all areas so “your experience may vary”. But it seems to have a fast enough processor (some phones have slow browsing just because they can’t process well). Opera Mini was running smoothly, and the built-in browser worked fine as well. No annoying delays in responding to screen/key presses.
Rating: 4 / 5
RenaOz says:
February 19th, 2010
8:18 pm
I just got this phone over the weekend. This is my first Touch Screen phone so I have nothing else to compare it to. It’s very nice. Very pretty phone. I love the Berry color.
This phone has a virtual qwerty keyboard for texting. This is the #1 feature I had to have for a phone. It’s very simple to use. I love that I can set my favorite song as the ring tone. MP3 player works great. I can assign a photo to a contact so a picture comes up when someone is calling. Very cute! You do not have to have a data plan for this phone. I only have a talk & text plan. Games are fun. Cheap to download.
My main complaint is when taking a photo, the photo is saved flipped to 90 degrees. You have to edit the photo to flip it around again and resave.
A suggestion, when putting new contacts into your phone, make sure you fix the settings to save contacts to your sim card before hand or it will only save to your phone.
I am a mom of two teenagers so I had to get a texting phone to communicate easier with them. I am not real cell phone saavy so I love that this phone is very user-friendly! Fits my needs wonderfully!
Rating: 4 / 5