Okay, so we’ve turned the phone app and we’re going to do a quick software review and this is the TouchFLO 3D Interface in which the phone is very, very famous for. Well, HTC is a very, very famous for so a large clock here which we can make smaller or bigger depending on your preferences. There is the standard start menu and we have Office Mobile which comes on all Windows 6.1 phones.
We have the contacts and here are the messages. Now, the messages are very interesting. You can scroll through them, like so. So, we’ll go down where you can view all your messages and the conversations that you’ve had. And if you write to me a message and this is where things start to go a little bit wrong with this phone and something in which we don’t like is that we cannot have a full keyboard or the keyboard doesn’t change with the accelerometer. And so with that the T9 keyboard, it is not so bad. And with the compact quality, it’s not too much of a problem, but when you start using the full—keyboard then you find that the keys are little bit small to write a message, so we save, so you save it quick around. You see that it’s either, it’s very easy, it’s very, very hard to get any accuracy when typing a text message and it could really hid you especially when you use some of the instant messaging applications like I missed some messenger or Skype which you can download for this phone, so I really would like to see a landscape keyboard here.
Alright, there is the emails which you can have multiple email accounts and you could switch between the two. And there is the start and the share stuff. There are the photos tab. This is a photo I took in the office, so you can see the accelerometer works while here. And the photos are okay in direct light, but when the light starts to dim a little even in a dark room, then because the phone, you can see here, the phone, it doesn’t have a flash. And it really, really does suffer for that and the camera even though it’s a five megapixel camera. It is substandard because it doesn’t have a flash. But we can see that the screen is really quite vivid and just to give you a sample here we go. Okay actually move this easy. You can see it’s quite responsive to screen hits, it’s nice to use just to click through your photo album. We have the music so you can listen too. And that also flicks through, so you can change. And I suppose, you can also look at the library to see all the tracks and albums they have here so that I can go to the artist, the album and you can set a playlist, the drum list, compose this and any songs that we’ve actually purchased.
These are the standard settings tabs. And for example, we’re on Wi-Fi in a minute, so at the moment so we can actually click on communications, we can tell Wi-Fi to change the wallpapers, sync your PC and just in case you want to obtain your calendar. Here we have something that I really like and it sounds like a quick large feature for your programs. We can add in new custom programs and we give you a quick example, I have installed Skype which works very well in here by the way. And I can remove it from the list or I can add it from this program list which we could just scroll with our finger without much problems and we just select Skype and it’s back home. And we also have the weather function which is a little bit improved from the other HTC phones and something that you really would like to look at here I’m sure is the Internet, YouTube videos play very well. Let’s give you a quick example and just wait for it to load up. Let’s check this one here.
The quality is quite good. Let’s have a quick look at the browser. Let’s go to HTC website and show you and let’s actually start to zoom in and we just double click and also the accelerometer. So, you can work well here and then you can zoom in. So for example, we’ve gone to the product page and zoom in on this paragraph and it fits itself to the screen. You can also—this even and out. You just need to slide the button here. I’m not sure how well you can see that, but the text is extremely clear on this browser and very, very good indeed. In fact, one of the best phones I’ve seen and for the browser Internet on both response and for its clarity.
One thing that I said that we couldn’t on messaging was that we couldn’t have a landscape keyboard, but here we can so let’s show you that okay, so we have a full keyboard here which is landscape mode. This is still little bit tight to you use but it’s much, much better than the landscape for quite the keyboard that we have for messaging.
So all in all, the phones are great phone for browsing the Internet, receiving emails, having your standard Windows features and such as the calendar and notepad, word so basically they are sweet but in regards to the camera function, it’s really lacking in that area. You could do with that flash and in our opinion maybe a dedicated camera button but other than that, it’s a great phone, a little wide and I like him, but a great phone packed with features. And we can really see why it’s being one of the best selling phones in the UK on contract this year.
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