T-Mobile Tap Review

There are many phones out there as you already know but the real question is which one has the features and design you want. The T-Mobile Tap was released on November 11th, 2009 from a little known Chinese phone maker by the name of Huawei. The T-Mobile Tap is the first time Huawei has released a touch screen mobile phone with premium features. Do not let this fact discourage you though, Huawei has released other headsets in the USA such as the Huawei M328 with MetroPCS.

When you first hold the T-Mobile Tap in your hand you'll notice it's soft touch feel, with it's round edges and well designed curves. The headset comes in at 4.2 inches tall by 2.2 inches wide, and only a half inch thick, at it's weight of only 3.7 ounces it will not feel too bulky in your hand. The T-Mobile Tap is a bit smaller overall than most other touch screens that typically use 3 inch displays, such as on the LG Chocolate Touch, because it has a 2.8 inch display instead. Don't be discouraged by the smaller screen either as it has 262k color-support and a resolution of 240x320. The screen itself is very responsive but in some occasions you'll need to press a little bit harder which can be a slight hassle. The T-mobile Tap has built in calibration software to improve the accuracy of your touches against the screen which comes in handy.

There are a fair amount of features that are likely to make this phone appeal to you. For text messaging the T-Mobile Tap leaves you free to use either a typical alphanumeric interface that supports T9, or you may use the QWERTY touch keyboard. The T-Mobile Tap has room for 1,000 contacts, each having a space for four of their phone numbers, address, birthday, website, anniversary, email, company, nickname and a note. The phone comes with 27 ringtones out of the box but you may also use your own MP3s or record a voice clip to use as your ringer with the phone itself. Some other features that are included are a stopwatch, countdown timer, world clock, unit converter, memos, calendar and photo/video messaging.

Some of the more advanced functions of the T-Mobile Tap are voice command, voice recorder, GPS with TeleNav, Bluetooth support, POP3/IMAP4 for emailing, and a basic HTML browser. You can of course take advantage of the phones music player by copying your music onto a microSD card, as the T-Mobile Tap itself only has 156MB built-in memory. If you do not have a microSD card you don't need to worry about getting a chance to listen to music on the T-Mobile Tap as it comes with a built-in FM radio tuner. You can run the music player in the background so you can use other features of the phone at the same time, rather than being limited to only one or the other. Included in the box you'll find that T-Mobile was nice enough to throw in corded headphones. The T-Mobile Tap has a 2-megapixel camera that has a decent quality, but a little lacking in photo sharpness.

When looking over the T-Mobile Tap and it's far from basic features many of you may find this phone to be a proper solution to your needs. It is much cheaper than the very high end phones such the Apple iPhone or Motorala Droid but it is certainly worth it's lower cost. Many of us simply do not need extremely advanced features and there is no reason why we should have to spend more than we need to. The T-Mobile Tap may not be the most powerful phone on the market but the T-Mobile Tap does have many useful features and a well designed look and feel to it.

Source: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=T-Mobile-Tap-Midnight-Blue