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| Brand: HTC
Category: Wireless
List Price: $599.99
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Rating:  145 reviews
Sales Rank: 158
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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 Slow & Buggy December 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this phone in March 2008 like many other reviewers who wanted a PDA and phone combination. While it looks great and does have a slide out keyboard, this phone has serious issues. I agree with many here, it is slow as Hell. If you needed help or have an emergency, your are out of luck. It takes forever to boot up. Of course, leaving it on drains the battery big time. I had my phone synced to my computer and bought a few apps for it and this slowed it down even further. It got so bad, I had to completely reset the device, wiping out all my info. I stopped syncing it and had to ditch some apps I really liked because the Tilt had issues with them. The Internet looks horrible on this phone, it is slow even with a 3G connection and I don't bother with the Wi-Fi. I won't play music on it. Call quality is also not great. I use a Jabra bluetooth which makes calls sound much better and clearer than the phone itself. The lag time for opening anything is far too long. It takes what seems like an eternity for the Windows Mobile system to open apps up. I had used Motorolas, (hated those), Nokia (loved them) and this was the first HTC phone I have tried. It will be my last. I have an iPod Touch which I love and now want an iPhone. The Touch is easier to use than this. The Tilt is too overpiced for how it (does not) perform. While it has a lot of features, getting to them and using them wastes time that you are supposed to be saving. If I had known then what I know now, I would have never have bought this phone. It only gets 2 stars because of the screen keyboard and Office Mobile apps included. I was extremely disappointed in how this phone operates. If you are thinking of purchasing this phone, DON'T Bother, there are better phones out there.
I am going to revise my review to note a few things about how this phone works. After having tried a new Nokia N96 and its annoying menus and buttons, I actually found myself missing some features of the Tilt. The Tilt will allow you to directly access features by both screen touch and stylus. Connections to the Internet may be slow, but it will use the best option available without bugging you. The Internet does not look as good as it does on an iPod Touch or an iPhone. The buttons on the face do light up and are easy to see quickly and the keyboard is helpful. Navigation is better than I orginally thought. It is not enough to change my rating or suggest purchasing it unless you really want a PDA more than a phone. The Tilt does have strong PDA features, but it does run under the Windows Mobile interface. Apple has it beat with the Touch and the iPhone.
 Not worth it even if they give it to you.... December 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll keep it brief and letyou know that I didn't heed the warnings. I 'upgraded' from the 8525 to the tilt and what a huge disappointment despite the tilt screen. I was excited about the integrated gps and the additional memory but the sluggishness and propensity to lock up ruined all the fun. I am now back to using my 8525 and it is faster, the keyboard is better. Skip this one and try the fuze or find a deal on an 8525.
The Tilt... December 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This device is jam-packed with useful and innovative programs and anything you would need on a phone. But what is the point of having these tools if you hate to use them?
I got the Tilt as a Christmas present, and I was thrilled. I had heard about all that things it can do, and about it's touch screen and keyboard. I thought this would beat the iPhone hands down. But of course, after the month of which you have to return it, I hit the problems. The phone part of the device is HORRIBLE. If you were ever in trouble and needed to make an emergency call and FAST, you're done for. If you choose to use the touch screen to dial, then you must take out the stylus. It sounds like a stupid complaint, but when this is mandatory for EVERY call made, it begins to itch. Once you have your stylus out, you must press each button, which are surprisingly small for the size of the screen. There is a MAJOR delay for the phone to process the key you pressed, in which time you have no idea whether or not you pressed it, and go ahead and press it again. Pop. both numbers come up, and you must delete one of them, and repeat until you have your number. The delay goes for the keyboard method as well. Very, very disappointing.
The infamous delay happens with anything you do to the phone. And I mean anything. The interface is painfully slow, not smooth and perfect like the iPhone. If you decide to use your finger for the touch screen, you need to use your nail, because it responds only to a hard surface, and because you wont be able to press the tiny little buttons. The phone itself is chunky and heavy and unattractive. The iPhone just had a price drop, and the extra money for the plan is worth it. Do not buy this phone.
High on features, low on execution December 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been a fan and avid user of smartphones since 2001. Having been accustomed to Palm's Treo line, I have to say that the Tilt has been a genuine let down. If you are migrating from the Treo platform using Windows Mobile, you should consider the move very carefully. Let's look at specifics: Ergonomically, the Tilt is awkward to use. The most frequently used button (the power button) is nearly completely hidden along the right edge of the phone. There is nothing in the way of geometry or texture to help you find it by feel and even less in the way of visual clues. The dark red symbol is tiny and there is no contrast. I've been using the phone for over six months, I know where the button is, and yet it is still successfully camouflaged. Once you do find the power button, you will need the sensitivity of a surgeon to operate it. The button has a miniscule throw and no tactile feedback to let you know that you have pressed it. To make matters worse, if you plan on operating the power switch one-handed, you will need to be very careful as the push-to-talk, scroll/selector, and program menu selector switches are all located directly opposite on the left side of the phone. This makes inadvertent inputs a snap with surprising results. Why make so much out of the power button? Well, you'll be needing it a great deal as most of the power settings require frequent use of this button in order to prevent accidentally leaving the unit on.
Leaving the unit on is great for draining the battery. My Treo 750 used to operate for several days before requiring a charge. My Tilt, set up as close to the same power settings as the Treo, needs charging at least every day. If you want to be informed about incoming e-mail messages, your best bet is to leave it plugged into shore power as much as possible. Any attempt at invoking power-saving measures is a real pain when making calls. The screen goes dark requiring the manipulation of other controls to get the screen back to enter menu selections or to answer a second call.
The slide out keyboard is a great idea, but is awkward to use, especially during calls. The two most important keys are placed close enough to the edge of the screen to make using them tricky. The membrane-based keys provide some tactile feedback, but it is highly variable over the range of the device. In comparison, the Treo's keys were well defined and provided excellent feedback for helping to enter the right data.
The build of the Tilt is also an issue. Of the three people in our office who switched to the Tilt, all three have had to return their models to AT&T. Unfortunately, when you do this, you get a refurbished unit which feels even sloppier than the out-of-the-box version. The input buttons on the face of the phone are loosely fitted on my second unit and the two halves of the phone are ill fitting. Overall, there is a sense that the phone is a toy and cheaply made.
The video camera is actually pretty nice but still shots are all way over exposed. The phone has scant memory which is a shame when memory is so cheap. The utility for finding large files and deleting them flat out doesn't work on my phone and I have to resort to a link with my PC to remove the files and attachments that accumulate through normal use.
E-mail via Windows Mobile and Outlook is terrific and works flawlessly, as does setting up multiple other messaging accounts and e-mail accounts. It's probably the thing the phone does best. The browser, however, works intermittently, requiring a reset about every fourth use. I can get to my selected homepage but no data displays. This is a pain since it takes a couple of minutes to regain its bearings after a soft reset.
The stylus is about two centimeters too short compared with other PDA's I've used and feels cheap. Entering data via the touch screen is not too difficult, however, and the screen size is ample to allow easy viewing of most data and documents.
The Treo was such an elegant design compared to the Tilt that I don't go too many days regretting the switch. The Treo was a great piece of industrial design that obviously respected ergonomics and utility. The Tilt, in contrast, is a collection of really terrific features that are executed poorly. I hope that HTC will spend more time on future iterations of the Tilt, or, better yet, start from scratch.
A piece of JUNK by any other name December 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow, I'm just floored that AT&T had the hutzpah to charge the customers $600 for this pathetic piece of junk. I was given this phone by my corporate IT, and believe me, I would've turned it in a long time ago had I not been forced to use it. The video is nothing short of horrible as many other reviewers attest. The AT&T service in San Francisco (where I live) is herrendous. There are several locations, all in heavily populated areas, where I know if I drive through it, my conversation will drop. (Shame on you, AT&T - for what you charge for your service, there's absolutely no excuse for dropping calls due to what appears to be lack of proper cell hand-off, or what-ever gremlins you couldn't work out of your hodgepodge of a network!!!) But back to the Tilt. Beside the hardware issues already well documented in many other reviews, the one thing I truly hate is the extremely poor quality of a human interface. There are so many links and functions that have not been thought through that I can't list them all. For instance, one thing that irks me is that when you're looking up a contact, and having found the name, want to click on it for detail (just like in MS Outlook), it doesnt show you any. Actually, it assumes that you want to call this person, and when you click on the name, goes into phone mode and proceeds to dial their number. Why they couldn't let me open the contact first, and then give me an option to dial one of its numbers - I don't know. Of course, it then takes a bunch of screen taps and key strokes (accompanied by the snail-like delay between them) to get back into the contact mode, where now you are forced to go through several additional menu steps to get into the actual contact.
Another fine "feature" makes it difficult to tell if you have a voice mail waiting, since the voicemail icon is hidden under a general "alert" icon, which can stand for emails, SMS and reminders. Since I have emails coming in all the time, I have grown accustomed to that general alert symbol being almost always on, so unless I consciously remember to click on it to see what alerts I have an the layer below, I wouldn't know that I may have a voice mail waiting.
The bluetooth connection can be described in three words: "Snap, crackle pop!". I am using a plantronics voyager that worked just fine with my older Blackberry, and I even tried my wife's Motorola - same problem. Needless to say, this is definitely the last HTC phone I would ever own. From now on I am sticking to well-recognized brands that have a good track record of putting out "fully baked" products and supporting their customers if any bugs are found. As other reviewers wrote, HTC's whining about how it would cost too much to fix the Tilt problems after charging $600(!!!) for this abomination is to me nothing short of a slap in the face of every one of its customers. I wouldn't be surprised if someone started a class-action lawsuit against HTC for gouging the customers and thoroughly misleading advertisement. If I could give this thing a zero-star rating, I would.
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