Another touch screen smart phone from the stables of HTC, will this one be as good as the previous ones?

Sum and Substance:

Thumbs up:

The HTC tilt 2 has a user friendly interface, the stylish sexy look makes you want to steal the phone if you don’t have money to buy it. It includes windows mobile 6.5 and mobile office suite. The call quality is excellent. Spacey buttons on the QWERTY keyboard give way to comfortable typing.

Thumbs down:

The browsing experience is a bit let down and multi media too was a disappointing. Bad camera quality, no 3.5 mm jack.

Inside the trunk:

Technology: GSM
Band: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Quad band
Caller ID: Yes
Other Features: Slide out QWERTY keyboard, WIFI, GPS, FM, Blue tooth and MS mobile office, Windows mobile 6.5.

The Whiz Kid Speaks:

This HTC product is a sleek candy bar phone, has a very stylish, attractive look. It has all the features that a smart phone should have. The phone’s screen slides out to reveal a full size QWERTY keyboard. The blue lighting on the keyboard gives you a calming effect when used in the dark and all the buttons are well illuminated. There is no 3.5mm jack but the phone does come in with an audio adapter which lets you plug in your favorite headphones or ear buds. The problem with this is that the adapter plugs in to the mini USB port on the bottom of the phone and it sticks out a bit so it can be a little painful to carry the phone with the headphones plugged in. The phone is 4.54 inches tall, 2.33 inches wide and 0.65 inches thin, weighs 6.3 ounces with a 3.6 inch touch screen.

Inside dope:

HTC tilt2 has a 3.6 big inch touch screen which has a QWERTY keyboard underneath it. The keyboard spacing was quite good, the buttons are large enough and you avoid any mishits. The blue backlighting on the keyboard is probably the best feature of the phone and goes well with the screen.

The product comes shipped with windows 6.5 and includes softwares like windows market place and windows explorer. The phone also comes with a Microsoft office mobile suite which makes it possible for businessmen to edit word, excel documents while on the move.

Support for email, POP3 and Imap accounts is included; you can download emails directly on to your phone and access it.

The address book doesn’t have any entry limits but the storage limit on the memory of the phone will hold you back from entering more entries. Entries for address book include e-mail, IM screen name, birthday, spouse’s name and much more.

A lock mobile feature on HTC tilt2 tells you about the missed calls and new messages and takes you directly to the desired application once you click on it, so you don’t have to spend time locating it in the menu.

The caller ID feature allows you to pair a contact with his picture his face flashes when he calls you, same applies for a caller group and you can assign a contact with a separate ringtone which will give you the idea about who is calling by the sound of the ringtone. The phone comes bundled with audio adapter, software CD, an extra stylus, USB cable and reference material. The phone is a quad band phone and offers quad band world roaming, speed dial, smart dialing, three way calling and voice commands.

Another thing that was quite pleasing was the call quality. The call quality was excellent and both parties could hear the voice quite clearly. The voice is crystal clear and adequately loud too. Some disturbances were prominent while using the speakerphone but the handset mode doesn’t have such problems. The handset mode cancelled out the disturbances the callers voice was clearly audible.

The only disappointing feature of this phone was the lamentable photo quality of the 3.2 MP camera. Cameras have never been HTC’s strong point and this one too follows the suite. The camera is 3.2 mp but the image quality is below average, the camera has plethora of options such as camera settings and tools, white balance and brightness controls, ISO settings, flicker adjustment, and various resolutions and image-quality options as well as a camcorder mode but the image quality is very bad. The camera doesn’t live up to the rating for 3.2 mp mark. The shutter lag ads to the miseries where you will have to hold the camera for a while after you take the picture before taking it away.

The phone has accelerometer which switches modes from portrait to landscape when you tilt the phone. Unlike some HTC phones this product has proximity sensor which automatically disables the screen when you hold it close to your ears.

The phone is powered by 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, and has 32 GB of expandable memory and 512 MB on ROM/288 MB of ram. It has a 1,500mAh lithium ion battery with a rated talk time of 8.5 hours and up to 20 days of standby time. But the phone battery drained out in about 7.25 hours in our tests and fell short of the rated time talk. The phone has Bluetooth included and you can use wireless bluetooth headsets with this device.

Nitty Gritty:

HTC phones have always stood out by their looks and its huge touch screen. HTC were the among the first ones to make touch screen phones in the market, they have still managed to hold the customer attention even though there are new players now making touch screen phones, this shows that HTC are quite good at their game. The HTC tilt2 is a phone that is recommended for business people who need to access email, and edit documents on the go. While the product is quite good for the 20s something generation, the horrendous camera quality and the disappointing multimedia is the only thing that holds us back from recommending to them. Apart from multimedia and camera, a good phone by HTC.

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