The cheap T-Mobile Tap ($ 80 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile, the price of 11/17/09), developed by Huawei , is a stylish touchscreen phone targeted at preteens. Although the valve has a solid suite of multimedia and communication features, the interface slow and soft keyboard to prevent it from being narrow the ultimate messaging phone.
Tap The compact measures 4.2 by 2.2 by 0.5 inches thick and weighs only 3.7 ounces light as a feather. Although the face of the phone is plastic, its support is rubberized, and he feels very comfortable in the hand. Two hardware buttons (Talk at the end) and a four-way directional pad with an "OK" are below Tap's main display. The right spine houses a dedicated camera key, a screen lock key and the volume rocker. At the top are the key to power and charge mini USB headphone jack / port. Unfortunately, the phone has no standard headphone jack of 3.5 mm.
touch screen 2.8-inch 240-by-320-pixel dominates the face of the phone. Although the screen is fairly low resolution, the icons are large enough and clear enough to decipher, and the text is still legible. Faucet display is on the small side for a full-touch phone (the average size of phone screens function seems to be about 3 inches). If a 2.8-inch screen is great for messaging, I found it too small for video playback and playback of web pages.
In my hands on testing, I found that I had to press very hard on the plastic of the display Press to scroll through my contacts or flick through my pictures. The Tap supports haptic feedback, then when you press an icon or a key and saves it with the phone, you get a sensation of vibration of light. This is a nice feature, since the tap is quite slow to react to the touch - especially in keypad mode. I noticed a lag between pressing a letter and see it appear on the screen. The haptic feedback makes you feel that something happens when you press a button - even if it takes a letter time to appear.
You can use the soft keyboard in portrait or landscape. If you intend to do lots of texting, you'll mostly use it in the last orientation, the keyboard in portrait orientation can be frustrating to use. Each key is assigned several letters, so you have to press until you get the correct letter, even with predictive text, this method can become tedious. Landscape mode is more like touching the keyboard we are accustomed, but he feels still a little cramped when typing long messages.
The call quality on T-Mobile's 3G network has been generally good. My Contacts sounded loud and clear, and I heard no static or interference. Party to the other end heard background noise, but otherwise the sound quality was clean.
The tap of the user interface widgets based gives it the feel of a high-end functionality or a smartphone. At the bottom of your home screen shortcuts four explicit: Dialer Contacts, web, and the menu. A bar along the right side of the screen contains 18 widgets (Google Search, weather, photos, etc.) that can be dragged onto the screen. This customization, while simplistic, given the Tap smartphone a look and feel like.
To configure your mail based webmail account on the faucet, you simply enter your account name and password, and you're all set. The Tap also messages (MMS to send pictures and video) and SMS. For instant messaging, the faucet comes with Nimbuzz all-in-one messaging client that includes support for AIM, Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger , GoogleTalk, and many other chat accounts.
To browse the Web, you can access through the program web2go T-Mobile - which, frankly, it can be awkward and difficult to navigate. The text is small and difficult to read, and there is something archaic about the whole interface. You also have to rely on the 3G network of T-Mobile, because there is no support for Wi-Fi on tap.
The music player is simple: You can create playlists and play back in random order and repetition, but you will not display album art. The Tap supports a nice range of audio files - MP3, AAC, AAC +, eAAC +, MIDI, WAV, and MPEG4. Its ambiance through the included earbuds was decent, but somewhat hollow. Unfortunately you can not swap the headphones to put yours, that the faucet has a mini USB socket owner rather than the standard 3.5 mm jack. If you're tired of your own collection, you can skip to the construction of an FM radio.
The 2-megapixel shooter produces better pictures than I expected. The colors are slightly washed out and the details a little fuzzy, but overall they were pretty good for a camera with a low number of megapixels and no flash. If in shooting mode, you can adjust white balance, the scenery (day or night) and change the mode Shooting (normal tones, black and white or sepia).
Although the valve is intended to pre-teens, I do not know if they have the patience to use the Tap - especially if they are frequent text messenger. The keyboard can be frustrating to use, and while the interface is easy to navigate and look good, it can be quite slow. The Tap has a good set of functionality for the price, however, and the camera works better than expected.
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