Review: AT&T Tilt

At first glance the Tilt may expect like but a minor upgrade to its predecessor, the 8525, but that would be a seriously wrong assumption to brand. The ATT Tilt offers 3G, GPS navigation, Push To Talk, and the coolest sliding keyboard format. This is the phone that I have been envious of from afar for a long time now and was extremely excited to have the opportunity to take easily on for several weeks to write this review.

But with all the wow factors this phone offers, I yet found myself wishing that for once they would get information technology all lined up only right to offering the best phone possible. The potential to hitting a grand slam is certainly at that place. As a result, I fell prey to its wow'ness factor, was personally impressed with its stellar line up of features, nonetheless was all the same wishing information technology had a little more than umph.

Physical Build & Layout

At that place is no doubt that this is a solidly built phone. It feels like it could take the normal daily use abuse in footstep and still keep to work just fine. The sliding keyboard is well built. It is comfortable to hold in my paw as well every bit nicely balanced when typing with the keyboard extended.

The back battery cover has a overnice rubberized texture that has a good feel to it. Information technology does show fingerprints and scuffs really piece of cake, but can be wiped away every bit needed. Some have trouble figuring out how to take off the back comprehend, so here is a tip... put the palm of your paw past the camera and GPS antenna and button up towards the summit of the phone.

The SIM card is also in a very good location. It is mutual to have the SIM card located nether the battery, which is kind of a nuisance to remove. In the Tilt, it is behind the screen! To find information technology, extend the keyboard, tilt the screen up, and then turn the telephone around to await on the backside of the screen side of the phone, and yous volition see information technology.

The MicroSD slot has a dainty safety protector over it that is secure but easy enough to remove when needed.

The merely detail I saw of possible concern was that the buttons on the front end of telephone can be moved effectually a little bit.

I volition give information technology iv out of 5 stars for the quality of the general physical build.

Buttons:

Bachelor hardware buttons are a cistron I take into consideration when buying a phone. The more physical buttons, the easier it is to launch what y'all employ the virtually on daily basis with a single touch of a button. The Tilt offers the standard buttons, merely unfortunately does non offering many actress ones. The obvious exception to this criticism is the jog bike. In my opinion, all WM Pro phones should have this every bit a standard button. When pushed, the Jog bike acts similar a button equally well. Beneath the jog cycle is an OK button. The Jog wheel, forth with the OK button merely below it, makes going through emails or menus a breeze.

Correct above the jog cycle is the PTT button. It is about like shooting fish in a barrel to miss this button.

All the buttons are piece of cake to use and push. But as I mentioned higher up the buttons on the the forepart of the telephone (green / red phone, 5 way nav, soft buttons, spider web, and email) are basically 1 plate that can be moved around in place both from side to side and up and down.

I will give it 3 out of five stars for not offering more hardware buttons and for being able to motion the front buttons effectually in place.

Keyboard:

If you ever visit any forums for PDA WM phones, there are ever 2 arguments going on nearly keyboards. The first is whether they demand a physical keyboard or not. And amidst those that desire a physical keyboard, whether it is ameliorate to accept one that is always exposed, like the Treo, or a sliding ane, like with the Tilt or the PPC-6800. There are certainly valid points on all sides. The bottom line to these arguments is that if information technology suits your needs and likes, then you are correct.

The advantage of having a sliding keyboard is that the phone can offer a larger screen without increasing the dimensions of the phone. Information technology also is generally easier to type on the sliding keyboards as the buttons are further apart. I personally honey the keyboard with the Tilt. Non only does the keyboard slide in and out hands, the sliding mechanism appears to exist well built. The keys are private keys that are easy to tell apart merely by bear on. The keyboard offers indicator lights showing when Caps & Fun are locked on. It even offers two buttons for the soft keys. As you tin see from the pictures, it is also really piece of cake to see the number keypad as well.

But what really sets the Tilt apart from other sliding keyboard phones is that once the keyboard is extended, you can then tilt the screen upwardly giving it the advent of a mini reckoner. This has very applied utilize every bit well, as now I tin run into the screen with the screen extended, while the phone is sitting on my desk. I really like this format. It is well designed and well thought out.

Physical Build:

Layout:

Screen

The tilt has a very brilliant screen. The screen is a 2.viii" QVGA LCD. It looks pretty adept when looking at it from extreme angles from side to side, just is unusable when looking at it at extreme angles from the tiptop or lesser. This is an important note considering when yous have the keyboard extended and the screen tilted upwards y'all may exist looking at the extreme angles from the side. Why are VGA screens withal non standard?

Screen:

Connectivity

Cell Reception

This volition obviously greatly depend on where you lot are, only I have found the Tilt to have good reception. I took it to the Oregon coast and it has the normal expected reception drops when and where expected. The call quality is very respectable as well, for both a normal call and with the speakerphone.

I requite information technology 4 out of 5 stars.

Network Data Connections

I am used to Sprint'south EVDO, and so it actually did become apparent that the Tilt ran slower than that... but that is more of a carrier result than a phone issue. As far as the phone, the Tilt offers the nearly options for a PDA phone for a GSM network. Information technology will support GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, and HSUPA.

When comparing information technology to only GSM network phones, I will give it 5 out of 5 stars.

Bluetooth

I tested information technology with at least 4 bluetooth headsets and a bluetooth speakerphone. My bluetooth connections have been fairly skilful. I did feel some break upwards and static at times, but only on occasion.

While using information technology with my bluetooth stereo headsets, it sounded pretty good likewise.

I will requite Bluetooth four out of 5 stars.

Push To Talk (PTT)

Everyone that I personally know on ATT never use PTT. So I called our own Taylor hither at WMExperts, who is our resident Tilt good, and nosotros had a not bad time testing the PTT feature. One time you send each other an invite and connect, the sound quality is on par with a regular cell phone call. In spite of the fact that I couldn't encounter myself using this service very much (if at all), it did piece of work well and was adequately easy to ready and employ. The push button is located where you would naturally desire to push the button during a conversation.

I give PTT 5 out of 5 stars.

GPS

This is a Actually absurd characteristic with the Tilt. Information technology offers internal GPS. That ways you have GPS congenital into the phone that will work with any 3rd party GPS or navigation software, Google Maps, etc. It locks onto the satellites faster than I idea it would, due to its Quick GPS characteristic. This downloads the locations of the satellites and volition automatically keep this database current behind the scenes via your phone's net connection, or when you lot are connected with ActiveSync.

I was also extremely impressed with how well it is able to lock onto satellites indoors. Here is a screen shot showing that it was able to lock onto 10 satellites while sitting in my part at my desk:

I give the Tilt's GPS v out of 5 stars... I just wish I had more than stars to requite for this feature!

WiFi

WiFi can sometimes prove to exist an invaluable connectivity choice, similar when y'all are traveling in a rural area with no coverage and you are sitting in your hotel lobby with free WiFi waves flight all effectually you. You will then be able to check your email, use Skype, browse the internet, access your reckoner back at the role, etc. It was piece of cake to fix the Tilt for my role wireless network that has WEP 64 bit enabled. Information technology supports 802.11b/g.

I give the WiFi v out of 5 stars.

Connectivity:

Retention

The Tilt offers the higher finish standard for both ROM memory (storage, think of a hard drive) in current WM PDA phones with 256 MB while also offer 128 MB RAM retentiveness (thinking-memory used while running programs). After loading some plug ins, ActiveSync, TeleNav, Vito Navigator II, Windows Explorer with www.WMExperts.com web page loaded, and MobiTV I nevertheless had 52.5 mb still costless.

Retention:

Battery Life

This is ever a difficult detail to rate in the real world, because it can vary greatly on how each individual is using their telephone, and their noesis with being able to fine tune the settings to deliver the all-time performance. As a result, whenever you lot talk about battery life it tin can be subjective to the individual.

It comes with a 1350 mAh battery that is officially rated for 4 hours of constant utilise with the Tilt. I have to say that I apply my phone probably more constantly than nigh, and I was personally impressed with its battery life. Its standby fourth dimension was extremely impressive. With some low or moderate utilise, I forgot to plug it in overnight, so I decided to run into how long information technology would concluding sitting on the shelf. Ii and a half days afterwards it was even so going. Finally somewhere between 3 and four days it died. And this is with email Exchange push button being used the whole time.

It can take 3 hours to fully charge the battery with the AC adapter, and longer via USB.

In existent fourth dimension use, I accept been able to get through a day without many challenges. With normal use, I would certainly have to charge it that night, just I never really felt the pinch of having to detect a plug in at the terminate of the mean solar day.

And all of this is without tweaking anything on the phone. With a lilliputian initial invested fourth dimension in fine tuning your phone and some basic bombardment saving practices (run into WMexperts' How to Extend Your Battery Life Commodity), I am sure this would only increase the battery life.

For an OEM battery for a WM PDA telephone, I will give it 5 out of 5 stars.

Battery Life:

Camera

The photographic camera is 3.0 megapixels (2048x1536 resolution). It does a decent job for being a phone photographic camera, only is still a long ways from replacing your real digital photographic camera. It does not have a wink, which I have establish to be really useful in a photographic camera phone at times. The quality is one of the best I have seen with a camera phone.

Information technology has the standard HTC camera set of options, which is past far the most comprehensive than any other manufacturer that I know about. It does offer:

• Several different modes for the camera
  • Photo
  • Video
  • MMS Video
  • Contacts Picture for Picture Caller ID
  • Picture Theme (5 themed templates like Person of Year)
  • Panorama
  • Sports
  • and Burst (Rapid Fire).
• Includes up to a 10x zoom.
• Depending on where you are taking the picture, you tin can choose from exposure presets similar:
  • Daylight
  • Nighttime
  • Incandescent lighting
  • and Florescent lighting.
• It will permit you lot to fifty-fifty manually control the exposure for more fine turning before you accept your shot. In add-on to exposure settings, you can also manually arrange:
  • Dissimilarity
  • Saturation
  • Hue
  • and Sharpness.
• It offers special furnishings such as
  • Grayscale
  • Sepia
  • Cool
  • and Negative.
• Yous tin cull between 5 levels of resolution from basically thumbnail for Caller ID to 2 Megapixels.
• It provides a timer so you lot can go in the motion-picture show too.

The videos actually turned out amend than I expected for using a camera telephone, and I have establish myself using it more than I e'er imagined I would. It captured sounds really well while filming. The last point I found very impressive is how it can accurately automatically focus, fifty-fifty at really close up items nearly iii inches away. The other side to the sword of this do good is that it does take a few seconds to lock on the focus, so y'all have to make sure you hold however for up to 5 seconds.

Only because it does non include a flash I am going to give the photographic camera 4 out of v stars.

Camera:

Real World Use

This phone has a great residual of features. I actually liked having a congenital in GPS that even worked inside my house and office. In spite of information technology being one the heaviest PDA phones I take held, information technology is comfy to use with the sliding keyboard. The keyboard has dainty feel to it and it is piece of cake to tell the buttons apart just by affect. Tilting the screen up is a nice impact and certainly adds a wow cistron with my friends and coworkers. It has sufficient ROM and RAM retention to meet all of my needs. It feels extremely solid and like it can take a few knocks and continue on chugging along without any major concerns. The OEM battery life was amend than I would have guessed, which is always a pleasant surprise.

I do miss having more buttons available forth the top and the side of the phone, but love the job wheel. And it does not come with a cradle.

The Tilt also comes with the standard Voice Prompt feature that lets you launch programs or call contacts with a voice control... merely equally usual, yous take to train it for every unmarried contact and program, but it is costless. If that is a business organisation, you can become MS Voice Command which works cracking out of the box with no need of training and a lot of additional avant-garde features... but you do have to purchase information technology.

I did find that when compared to the Sprint Mogul (with half of the RAM, and too runs a 400 mhz processor) that the Tilt was obviously more sluggish in rotating the screen, downloading web pages, scrolling down graphic intensive web pages, and sometimes in responding to taps on the touch screen.

So the only cons that I found was that it did non offering every bit many hardware buttons every bit I would similar, that it is pretty heavy, and more sluggish when compared to the PPC-6800's responsiveness.

The bottom line is that this phone is one that has a wonderful honeymoon flow, volition certainly make many users extremely happy with all it has to offering with its truly fantastic features (like GPS, WiFi, the tilting screen), just I could see how some may grow to have concerns with its performance in its daily use with its sometimes slower responsiveness. With my previous exposure to this phone, I knew I was going to like this phone even before I opened the box, but I was surprised at yet again how close HTC came to the perfect telephone, but fell curt in just a few areas.

Real World Employ:

Terminal Ratings

Technical Specs

• Top Prison cell Phone Features
  • Speakerphone Yes
  • Bluetooth® Yes
  • Text Messaging Capable Yes
  • Vocalism-Activated Dialing Yes
  • Removable Memory Aye
  • Photo Caller ID Yep
• Prison cell Phone Style
  • Manner Family Hybrid
  • Slider Yes
  • QWERTY - Keyboard Aye
  • Swivel No
• Specifications
  • Removable Memory Card - Type Micro SD Carte
  • Phone Size Large
  • Antenna Type Internal
  • Colour Display Yes
  • Dimensions (H x Westward x D) 4.4x 2.3 x 0.vii in
  • Weight (westward/standard battery) half-dozen.7 oz
  • External Volume Control Yep
  • Linguistic communication Options Multiple Languages
  • Vibrating Alert Yes
  • External LCD Yes
  • Standard 2.5mm Headset Jack Yeah
  • Standard 3.5mm Headset Jack No
  • Service / Support i Year Warranty
• Camera & Video
  • Camera Resolution 3 megapixels
  • Camera Flash No
  • Video Playback Aye
• Personalization & Fun
  • Ringtones Included Yes
  • Phone Color Silver
  • Snap-on Faceplates or Covers No
  • FM Radio No
  • Preloaded Games Yep
• Organization & Tools
  • Multi-Employ / PDA Telephone Yeah
  • Warning Clock Yes
• Connectivity
  • IR Port No
  • Brew-Enabled No
  • Java-Enabled Yes
• Battery Specifications
  • Type of Battery Lithium Ion Polymer battery
  • Talk Fourth dimension Upwards to 264 mins
  • Standby Time Up to 350 hrs
• Network Technology
  • Data Technology GSM: GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA
  • Engineering science WCDMA - UMTS 850/1800/1900
  • Way Quad Mode
• Additional USEFUL INFORMATION
  • ATT Tilt User Manual HERE
  • ATT Tilt Tips & Tricks
  • ATT Tilt FAQs
• Windows Mobile How To's:
  • Install, Uninstall, and Transfer Files on Windows Mobile
  • Must Have Windows Mobile Software
  • Use your WM Smartphone One-Handed

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