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Editor Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description
The slim, pocket-sized AT&T Tilt smartphone is bursting at the seams with a full-menu of wireless capabilities to keep you connected wherever you roam on this globe--quad-band GSM for global roaming, Wi-Fi, EDGE, and 3G data connectivity via AT&T's UMTS/HSDPA-based BroadbandConnect network. Practical and versatile, the phone's face slides open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard while the screen tilts for optimal viewing of email, spreadsheets, and web videos. It also adds the power of the Windows Mobile 6 operating system (Professional Edition), which provides push email for immediate send and receive as well as editing of Microsoft Office documents. (See more details about Windows Mobile 6 below.)

With its high-speed 3G network capability, you'll be able to access AT&T's Mobile Music and Cellular Video services, and the phone includes the latest version of Telenav GPS Navigator for turn-by-turn directions while on the go. One of the most powerful, feature-packed smartphones on the market, the AT&T Tilt also includes a 3-megapixel camera (with video capabilities), Bluetooth connectivity with stereo music streaming and multiple connection capability, MicroSD memory card expansion up to 4 GB, and a variety of games for when you need a break (including Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 and Ms. Pac-Man).

The AT&T Tilt is a veritable wireless Swiss Army Knife, with quad-band GSM, tri-band 3G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth connectivity as well as a GPS receiver.

AT&T Service
The AT&T Tilt can handle high-speed data connectivity via AT&T's 3G mobile broadband data network, which is available in most major metropolitan areas. The AT&T 3G network uses the UMTS 850/1900/2100 network (also known as WCDMA), making it possible to enjoy a variety of feature-rich wireless multimedia services with speeds up to 3.6 Mbps. It also gives AT&T the advantage of offering simultaneous voice and data services. You'll also enjoy 3G broadband speed connectivity across the globe with tri-band UMTS/HSDPA capabilities, which allows the Tilt to operate in Japan and Korea, in addition to the more than 135 countries in which AT&T offers international data roaming.

In areas where the 3G network is not available, you'll continue to receive service on the AT&T EDGE network, which offers availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. Providing average data speeds between 75-135Kbps, it's fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services, including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.

With 3G connectivity, you'll be able to access AT&T's Cellular Video (CV) service and the Internet while on the go. Cellular Video features content from CNN, The Weather Channel, iFilm, Comedy Central and exclusive premium content from HBO and much more. It also features AT&T Mobile Music, which provides access to Napster and eMusic subscription services as well as Music ID song-recognition software, music videos and The Buzz music news portal. The handset is XM Radio Mobile-capable, so you can enjoy streaming live digital radio as well. (An AT&T MEdia Max subscription bundle is recommended for accessing AT&T's Internet, video, and music services.)

Like a micro laptop, the AT&T Tilt features a full QWERTY keyboard and a face/touchscreen that tilts up to 40 degrees.

Phone Features
Akin to a micro laptop, the AT&T Tilt's face/touchscreen tilts up to a maximum of 40 degrees, and the variable screen angle can be positioned to suit your needs, whether you're catching up on email, browsing the Web, or playing a game. The QWERTY keypad offers roomy, rectangular buttons that are tactile and backlit, making it easy to type with both thumbs while on the go. The large 2.8-inch touchscreen has a 240 x 320-pixel resolution and support for up to 65K colors. It sports a 256 MB memory (not all user available) and a MicroSD memory card slot, which is compatible with the latest 4 GB capacity.

This smartphone has an integrated Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g), enabling seamless connectivity with wireless networks at work, at home, and on the roam via Wi-Fi hotspots at airports and coffee shops. For an additional charge, you can connect to any of the 10,000 AT&T hotspot locations in the U.S. and tens of thousands more abroad. The AT&T Tilt supports Bluetooth 2.0, which allows up to six Bluetooth devices to be wirelessly connected simultaneously to the device--one of which can be a Bluetooth stereo headset for listening to music.

Featuring the latest version of Telenav GPS Navigator, you'll enjoyGPS-enabled turn-by-turn voice and on-screen driving direction, colorful 3D moving maps and traffic delay alerts with re-routing for use in vehicles or while walking. New features debuting on the Tilt include address sharing--allowing you to share your location with friends and associates--and reading, rating and sharing business listings like restaurants and more. Business users also can utilize TeleNav Track a fully hosted, on-demand and comprehensive GPS-based workforce-management solution.

In addition to Microsoft Direct Push, the AT&T Tilt will be the first Windows Mobile device in North America to include the Blackberry Connect email service, which also enables familiar wireless synchronization of calendar, contacts and tasks for users. BlackBerry Connect 4.0 supports push email for Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Notes/Domino and Novell Groupwise through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and personal email through the BlackBerry Internet Service. You can also use the AT&T Tilt to access your personal email through AT&T's Xpress Mail service, enabling you to receive email from most major POP3/IMAP personal email services pushed to the AT&T Tilt at pre-set intervals. AT&T Xpress Mail can perform two-way wireless synchronization of their calendars, access contact lists and view attachments.

Beyond business functionality, the AT&T Tilt is made for fun and games as well. The device is preloaded with free and premium games and applications including Ms. PAC-MAN, Brain Challenge, Bubble breaker, Midnight Pool, Solitaire, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07, MobiTV, and MyCast. Other features include:

• Instant messaging via AOL, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live
• Music format support: AAC, AAC+, eAAC, MP3, WMA, WAV, MPEG4, AMR
• Record videos and voice memos as long as you have available space on an optional memory card
• Full duplex speakerphone
• Flight mode turns off cellular network and Wi-Fi for enjoying stored music and video
• USB 2.0 wired connectivity
• Push-to-talk capability

Vital Statistics
The AT&T Tilt weighs 6.7 ounces and measures 4.41 x 2.32 x 0.75 inches. Its 1350 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk time, and up to 10 days of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies, as well as the 850/1900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA 3G frequencies.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6

Windows Mobile 6 adds power to your mobile office with up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars.

Edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on your phone, just as you would on your desktop/laptop PC.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 updates the Windows Mobile 5 platform with a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.

With Windows Mobile 6, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affecting tables, images or text--as well as view PowerPoint presentations.

• Microsoft Office Word Mobile features include spell-check, Find and Replace commands, bulleted lists, text formatting, and support for tables for the first time.
• With Excel Mobile, you're not just confined to editing charts: with the new Chart Wizard you can create charts quickly and easily.
• PowerPoint Mobile allows you to view the full presentation, rehearse timings, check the order and any live links you may have in your presentation. You can then email comments back to the team or communicate via MSN Messenger for an immediate response.
• After creating or editing a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can synchronize it with your PC and it will automatically be converted to the PC version.

All Windows Mobile 6 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Rating : 3.0 point(s) from 96 review(s).

Source : Great phone!

I LOVE this phone! It is so much better than the iPhone! First of all, I can replace the battery with a fully charged battery whenever it gets low. (And I use my phone quite a bit!) I also love that I can link it to my satelite dish at home to watch HBO, Disney channel, along with all of the standard channels. Of course, that's one of the reasons I go through so much battery power! The full Office Suite also comes in handy. My laptop fried and all I had to work with was this phone. I was able to write, save and print out recipies, take pictures, surf the net, bid and pay on ebay, etc. I don't have to settle for a limited internet experience. I could do the regular text thing, but why when I can do my regular e-mail thing? I also really like that I can expand my memory with a memory chip. I save everything to the chip and then transfer the chip. It makes back-ups a breeze! And while others are having their cars broken into for their GPS units, my phone uses Google Maps and its internal GPS and it is always on me. No need to worry for my car! What a great device! As far as the bloatware installed by AT&T, there are people who can take care of that for you. I found a person on ebay who "pimped" my phone for a very reasonable fee and now everyone who sees it wants one!Source : Lots of features, but hard to use.

This thing is essentially more of a computer than a phone. It comes with windows mobile and really is a lot like a windows interface. There's something similar to windows explorer to get around to your files, you've basically got microsoft word, power point and excel available to you and you basically just open and close windows when using the phone.

This is not a phone you will be using your fingers with a lot. Most of the touch-activated objects on the screen are really small. So the stylus comes in handy often. It is a little hard to get to and in my opinion, is not stored in a very good corner of the phone for a right-handed person. There are ways to do a lot of things with the buttons, but often times you will run into a dead end and have to take the stylus out.

It takes quite a while to get used to navigating around the phone and after 4 days, I'm still having a hard time and I consider myself fairly technically inclined. This is my first experience with a full QWERTY keypad and personally, I don't like it. I much prefer being able to use one hand with predictive texting. I'd recommend anyone thinking about getting a full keyboard phone to try texting with it a few times first.

There are a wide range of features, which can be kind of hard to get to sometimes. It's not a very intuitive phone and definitely more of a work device than a fun device. If you are a technically inclined business person looking for a powerful work tool, this is it. If you're looking for something cool to impress your friends with, this isn't it.

Pros:
Great picture quality
Lots of features
Very customizable

Cons:
Camera take a LONG TIME to take a picture
It's big and heavy
Many tasks which are quick and easy on most other phones require many steps
Get used to using the stylus A LOTSource : Fist time user

Overall, this phone is good, but sometimes very hard to enter the phone number ( either you have to touch the screen or filp the phone and use the pad)Source : Powerfull PDA but not USER FRIENDLY

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Cons:
1. battery life is very short - bought second battery for 13$+shipping at amazon 1600 versus 1300 original.
2. no headphones jack - bought adapter usb-phone jack for 3$+shipping
3. because of short battery life - bought a universal charger for 6$+shipping from www.cellphoneshop.net
4. the numbers on keypad are not seen as well as letters because of really weared color of keypad - I'm powerfull keyboard user and remember Letters on keyboard otherwise, it is almost impossible to read them when typing.
5. PTT button is located on left top corner for device - i've pressed it many times when opening the keyboard or picking up the device - very annoying as the screen comes up that you need ot activate PTT and etc...
6. speakerphone volume absolutely low and can't hear anything if speakerphone is on.
7. the Today screen is not nice , very small and not convinient - lots of
twiks need to be made in order to have NICE LOOKING and COMFORTABLE navigation/functions/display - look at http://www.pocketables.net/2008/01/10-tips-on-fixi.html#T1
after downloading twiks and some plug ins - I have complete joy of navigating and using all features of the device.
8.very gentle and not solid cover - I'd suggest to buy plastic cover . I bought cover 2$+shipping as well as carrying case 8$+shipping on amazon
9.original touch screen defender does not fit the screen - boutght for 8$ +shipping new one.
10. video drivers are awfull - if you plan to watch videos on this device - it is a joke. I have not plan to watch movies on this device.
11. can be better internet browser - I have downloaded opera.
12.speakerphone on the back of device? why?
13.camera on the back of device and can be easilly scratched if no cover used. - I'd prefer have camera on the front of the device.


Procs
Full specs for Kyzer - not twiked HTC model is here
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_tytn_ii-2024.php

1. powerfull device - pDA+wifi+bluetooth+camera 3mp+global(
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
)

2. Qwerty keyboard
3. windows mobile 6 with VOIP - I can use skype to make PC-to-PC calls
4. touch screen with stylus - very important for me as I am stylus user for many years.
5. "rolling" navigation on the left side to be able to move up and down on the screen - great idea !!! and it is placed on left side - can use stylus and roll up and down at the same time - I'm write handed.
6. can put in sleep mode with quick button on right side of device - don't waste energy.
7. camera button in the right down position and I don't touch it when talking on phone or operating the device - in many previous phones I have occassionally press camera button unintentionally...
8.caps and shift buttons on the left side and one on top of another - very comfortable.
9. accessories can be found for not of much expense as well as phone itself can be bought now for 39$!!!!on newegg including all discounts and rebates....I payed 180$ including shipping and including 50$ rebate.
10.when i have installed all soft and plugins - it is really great device for money and for my needs to not use my laptop when on the road or just in as regular life
11. almost forgot - it is global multi-band device and can be used in europe and as well in Korea and japan with right ROM version adjustment.
12. Built in GPS is a bonus too - I use google but better Voice service navigation soft might be the desirable.
I'm using it for one month - I will be glad if it will last year - year and a half.
13. no other phone/pda on the market that have all those features in one: wifi-blutouth-gps-3g-and multi band (including corea/japan/europe) capabilities.
I looked at motorola 9q but has been told that USA version is not completely flexible to be used in asia. need to buy unlocked Europian version...etc..
I put 3 stars because of my hard work to make this device a better one and user friendly. Otherwise, I'd put it in 4.5 rate.

Source : Great idea, poor implementation

I'll be quick. Good idea here, poor engineering. When it works it's wonderful, but it hits snags way too often. I upgraded software as per customer service, it didn't help much.

GPS is great when it works, but too often fails.

Bluetooth stereo is great when it works, but too often it fails and devices have to be reset/repaired.

I have to reboot an average of 4 times per week.

One solid plus, the cell signal has been outstanding for me. I can get a connection and complete a call when my friends can't.

If the next iPhone has GPS I will probably eBay my Tilt.