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| Brand: HTC
Category: Wireless
List Price: $599.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 65
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Display Size: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: 8925
UPC: 821793000585
ASIN: B000UWDU5K
Release Date: October 5, 2007
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 Not so fast December 17, 2007
28 out of 44 found this review helpful
AT&T Tilt Smartphone (AT&T)
Basically it is HTC TYTN II phone model in AT&T version called AT&T Tilt Smartphone. There is a difference in hardware and price between these two phone models. Firstly Tilt is locked for AT&T service and lacks front camera what means that this smartphone will not work as videophone - so apparently AT&T is not prepared to provide such a service. There is substantial discount in price but whoever gets into this deal will return this discount to AT&T many times during 2-year service contract in monthly service fees. Which by the way will start at $80 plus a month to many times more depending on plan selection. In that sense while TYTN II as hardware is a revolutionary product, far exceeding any other smartphone model including Iphone in its advanced technology, when it comes to provided service not much can be expected except its high cost. Basically it will be valuable piece of equipment if the service is paid by employer for travelling, busy professionals which need constant access to internet. It is quite bad that this promising and so advanced technology will be undercut by unfortunate marketing decisions of AT&T regarding provided costly service with so many strings attached. There is a huge market for this type technology but not at any cost. I would hope that Sprint, Verizon or T-mobile will take a second look at this smartphone model and implement their own marketing strategy not following quite bad example of AT&T implementation. It does not seem to be difficult to do because they would meet huge market demand if they could offer variety of service plans starting with basic, competitive plan that could replace functionality of stationary, broadband access to internet which wouldn't cost more than traditional broadband modem access, assuming that provided customer service would be of that quality as t-mobile provides. Above it additional and optional phone plans would provide necessary revenues covering cost of implementation of this advanced technology, including videophone service. Otherwise as it stands now average user will have to wait many years before this communication technology becomes widely popular like currently cellular phones are. Technology is there, in addition common sense marketing is desparately needed.
 Love my phone! December 12, 2007
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love my new phone. It has so many capabilities; keeps me connected to everything I need. The best part is the Google Maps and GPS! It's helped me out of a few directionally challenged moments already! Only problem is the Gmail doesn't push to the phone and I find it erases the gmail before I can read it. I'll have to look into that. Also I am nervous the sliding mechanism will wear out, but only time will tell. Read all the reviews, they are all gleaming!
At&t Tilt is a force beyond measures!!!!! December 11, 2007
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
Overall the phone is great!!! Amazon.com is amazing for making this phone afordable. I was in the market looking for a phone with touch screen and keyboard capabilty. I found it in the At&t Tilt available only to At&t subscribers. This is a amazing phone and I thank amazon.com daily for there remarkable prices. I am now able to get email in and out of work, search the web, take brilliant pictures using the 3X mega pixel camera. Awww man I can go on for hours telling you what this phone is capable of doing. In my future purchases I would highly recommend using amazon.com. The At&t Tilt is a thing of natural beauty!!!
 Its Awkward to Do Common Tasks (texting, adjust brightness, volumes, pulling out stylus etc) December 10, 2007
10 out of 20 found this review helpful
This phone was the the 3rd phone that I returned to ATT recently. I thought that the hardware felt very sturdy and well built. But I had major problems with the design of the phone as well as the placement of important buttons. This was the worst phone out of all 4 that I had. The Tilt feature is awful to use. You have to rotate it and open it just to hit an alphanumeric key. I understand that my distaste for opening the device to use it eliminates 95% of all cell phones sold (flip phones, sliders etc). And there was no obvious ringer volume control or silent mode outside of the settings menu. I also thought that after opening the phone it appeared not to be exactly horizontally parallel. And they put the stylus in the absolute worst spot. To sum it up, it took on average about 2 or 3 extra steps to accomplish common tasks with one of those tasks basically requiring the use both hands. However, the quality and deepness of the ring tones were the best of any phone I have used.
Great phone December 8, 2007
34 out of 42 found this review helpful
This is my second Windows Mobile device. I had a Blackjack prior to this and it was a nice phone as well. I had to get the telecom guy at my office to replace it because the screen was filling up with pocket lint so I got to replace it with a TILT.
The phone is great. Everything runs very quickly. The full slide out keyboard is great because the Blackjack had very small keys. It has a huge display which turns 90 degrees when you slide out the keyboard.
Out of the box the phone does almost everything already. It has GPS, full Office Mobile, media player etc. I use GPS with Google maps because I don't see the need to pay 10 dollars a month for the TelNav service. The phone has WiFi as well but I have not used it too much. The city I live in completely covered in 3 coverage so I never have the need to use Wifi but its a nice option to have when I travel.
I did a few modifications to it and It is even better now. I added a DivX player to it. I turned off the Push to talk (PTT) button and replaced it with a voice dial button.
Some people complain about battery life because it is a 3G phone. What you need to realize is any of the ATT 3G phones will eat up battery life. However if you search the net there is a little application you can use to allow you to turn off 3G and only use Edge which saves you tons of battery life and it won't effect you getting your direct push email through Outlook Mobile.
Cons of the phone. There are not too many. I am not listing the pros becuase others have already done this and most people just want to know what is not so great about the phone.
I miss having a true number pad. When you hit the call button the screen changes to a dial pad and you can dial that way. I know it is just a matter of time before I am completely comfortable with it.
It is also a bit heavier than I expected. I went from a Razr to a Blackjack to a TILT and it is a big difference. Now it is not like holding a brick to your ear but you will notice the difference the first few times you use it.
It didn't come with a case. This was a little annoying. ATT claims the phone is $599. For $600 bucks they should throw in a case that fits this phone perfectly rather than having to find one that does fit.
Numbers while typing. With my Blackjack I could just hold down the number 4 and it would insert that into a message. With the TILT you have to make use of the fucntion button.
Games - The phone has a bunch of demos of games installed but very few full ones. I think they should have at least put a couple full games on it. But this is not really a gaming phone.
TouchFlo screen - I don't think it is really a con but the screen is hit or miss when using your fingers rather than the stylus. Sometimes it works great. Sometimes it doesn't. I almost always use the stylus but it is nice to not have to whip it out all the time.
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