- 3G-enabled touchscreen phone in midnight blue with intuitive interface and customizable home screen
- Compatible with T-Mobile’s 3G network (available in select markets); T-Mobile’s myFaves service provides unlimited calling to your five most called contacts; GPS-enabled with optional TeleNav service
- 2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; microSD memory expansion to 8 GB; access to personal email and instant messaging
- Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user manual
Amazon.com Product Description
The stylish T-Mobile Tap touchscreen phone makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family while adding flair to your mobile communications. Enabled for T-Mobile’s expanding high-speed 3G network, the T-Mobile Tap offers fast data delivery and an enhanced Web-browsing experience that lets you connect quickly to social networking sites.
The 3G-enabled, T-Mobile Tap touchscreen phone with GPS capabilities, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder and microSD memory expansion. |
Featuring a compact design, the T-Mobile Tap also offers a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, GPS for use with location based services powered by TeleNav, Bluetooth for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, digital audio player, microSD memory expansion, access to personal email and instant messaging services, and up to 5 hours of talk time.
Key Features
- Fast 3G connectivity via T-Mobile’s HSDPA/UMTS network (1700/2100 MHz bands, UMTS/HSDPA; see more about T-Mobile’s 3G service below)
- Quad-band GSM phone for good global voice connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands)
- myFaves capable (Learn more)
- Built-in GPS for location-based services and navigation. It comes with a 14-day trial of the TeleNav navigation service, which provides real-time location on maps, turn-by-turn driving directions, and more (monthly subscription required after trial expires).
- 2.8-inch touchscreen with intuitive interface
- Personalized home screen to match your lifestyle. Get instant access to the Apps and features that you use the most.
- 2-megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, multiple shooting modes, and multi-shot capabilities
- Capture video clips on the go up to QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels)
- Digital media player compatible with a good variety of audio (MP3, AAC/AAC+) and video (MPEG4, H.263, H.264, 3GPP) formats
- FM radio
- Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity with stereo music streaming (A2DP) capabilities as well as hands-free headsets and car kits.
- Memory expansion via microSD card slot with support for optional cards up to 8 GB. The phone has an internal 256 MB memory.
- Full messaging capabilities including SMS text, MMS picture/video and IM instant messaging (via popular services including AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger, and Google Talk)
- Audio Postcard feature allows you to add a personalized message to a photo before sending it to friends and family using multimedia messaging (MMS)
- Personal email with support for AOL, Yahoo! and Gmail
- Download HiFi Ringers, MegaTones and wallpapers to customize your phone with sounds and voices from your favorite artists, instrumental versions of songs as well as cool graphics.
- Phonebook stores up to 1000 entries with room in each entry for 3 numbers, email address, and street address
- Organizer tools including calendar (with PC synchronization capabilities), tasks, notepad/memo, voice memo, alarm, calculator, converter
- USB connectivity with mass storage capabilities
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Vital Statistics
The T-Mobile Tap weighs 3.7 ounces and measures 4.17 x 2.2 x 0.54 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 240 hours (10 days) of standby time on GSM networks and up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time on 3G networks. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies, as well as T-Mobile’s 3G network (1700/2100 MHz).
What’s in the Box
T-Mobile Tap handset, rechargeable battery, charger, quick start guide, user manual
T-Mobile Services
- High-speed data connectivity via T-Mobile’s 3G network: In addition to its quad-band GSM connectivity, this phone is also compatible with T-Mobile’s UMTS/HSDPA 3G network, which operates on the 1700/2100 MHz AWS spectrum. This phone is designed to automatically connect to the best available network (3G or GSM/GPRS/EDGE) to provide faster data speeds when accessing the Web or downloading content from the T-Mobile Web2go content portal. T-Mobile is currently rolling out its 3G network, and it expects by year’s end that its high-speed data network will be available in those cities where a majority of its subscribers currently use data services.
In areas where the 3G network is not available, you’ll continue to receive service on the via T-Mobile’s EDGE network (which stands for “Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution”). This high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go.
While this phone is optimized for use with T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network, many of its functions will also work well on the moderate-speed EDGE network. If you plan to access the Internet extensively on your phone, 3G network coverage may serve you best.
Activities that work well on EDGE or 3G networks:
- Email, instant messaging, and texting
- Downloading ringtones, CallerTunes, wallpaper, light data files
- Sending photographs via e-mail or picture messaging
Activities that work best on a 3G network:
- Viewing content-heavy websites (lots of images or videos playing)
- Viewing YouTube and other video files (they will play on EDGE, but require loading time)
- Uploading large files (photos, videos, presentations) to sharing websites
- Downloading large files from an e-mail or a website
- myFaves Capable: This phone is compatible with T-Mobile’s myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts–on any network, even landlines–without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.
- T-Mobile’s web2go intuitive web browsing service makes it easy to view and navigate the web from your phone with features including Yahoo! oneSearch, a customizable home page and a simplified shopping and download experience. You can create a personalized home page for easy, one-click access to your favorite Web sites.
With access to the web2go marketplace included at no additional charge, you can also browse and purchase the latest ringtones, games, wallpaper and mobile optimized applications and services to customize their phone. Providing access to the latest news, information and content, Yahoo! oneSearch intuitively returns results grouped around your intended search. For instance, when you search for a sports team, Yahoo! returns the latest scores, schedules, team profiles, roster, news, images and a link to the team’s Web site.
T-Mobile Tap Phone, Midnight Blue
I’m not a major cell phone user, I received this as a gift. However, I am fairly current on technology, and while this will not replace a smartphone like the droid or iphone, it is an incredibly reasonable little piece of wonder. The stats speak for themselves, but I can add a bit.
Pros: Quality build. It just feels GOOD in your hand, like it’s solid and isn’t waiting to spring the battery cover off in your pocket
extremely potent, (but tinny) built in speaker.
decent access capabilities, like browser and gps.
All the major installed apps seem to work pretty well, [...] works fine on the default browser, etc.
Cons: murky touch response. sometimes you’ll need to type a bit slower to let it keep up, especially in higher processing requirements like
browsing online or long texts.
default browser is crap.
“sleep” button goes off quite easily, and its right beside the camera button, so you may find a lot of images of the inside of your pocket.
as of this writing, there is almost zero 3rd party software support. Can’t seem to get Opera Mini to work on it.
can’t move installed apps to taskbar/desktop areas, have to go through java menus to access all your stuff.
It’s not perfect, and it’s not a replacement for a serious mobile device like Blackberry, iPhone, whatever, but for what it is and it’s intent, it definitely exceeds that. I gave it a 3 because its SUPPOSED to be an average low budget phone with good features, so I rated it as such. But don’t read that as it’s not a worthy device, if you want mobile access to the internet, a touchscreen with a decent built in mp3 player, and a few other toys like GPS (that only seems to work in 3G areas naturally) then I would heartily recommend this.
Rating: 3 / 5
I upgraded earlier this year from a Motorola flip phone to this T-Mobile Tap Blue. Before I started using my phone I watched a really helpful on-line video by Radio Shack which covered most of the phone’s basic operations. The Tap Blue is nice looking, a little larger than my Motorola phone and fits very nicely in my hand. The large color screen (2¼” x 2″) is great with easy to read application icons. It took a little practice to master the tap system, but once I used it for a little while and got the settings adjusted, it wasn’t difficult and I admit it’s a lot of fun.
I really like the on-screen keyboards for texting. There are two, one when holding the phone in the vertical position and another in the horizontal position. The keys on one keyboard are set up alphabetically and the other is set up like a standard computer keyboard. Switching from one to another is as simple as rotating the phone back and forth. The built-in speaker is one of the better ones I’ve used and the camera is outstanding. The shutter can be activated by pressing the primary entry button near the bottom of the camera’s face plate and also by a chrome bar on the right side of the camera, right below the security lock/unlock bar. One drawback is the shutter can be inadvertently activated by the side bar very easily. It would be better placed elsewhere.
This phone has a number of pop-out features. After watching the video, I was especially looking forward to using the slide menu that pops out from the left side of the screen. However, I’d describe this feature as one of those “works in the video, but not when to try it at home” items. The sliding menu does scroll, but it usually ends up opening a menu item by accident in the process. I pretty much ignore it now and get to my destination through other means. The independent toggle scrolling feature installed around the primary entry button located just under the bottom of the screen makes this very easy.
This is certainly not a top of the line cell phone, but it’s a definite improvement over my last flip phone. If there is a bad feature, it has to be the User Guide. It is so limited in what it covers that it is essentially useless. One example, my service allows me to have five numbers to friends & family (MyFaves) with unlimited minutes/texting to those people. However, the instructions in the Getting Started book are again…useless. I’ve tried to set my favorites up with personalized pictures without success.
I also chose to protect the phone by purchasing a soft rubber case and applying protective film over the glass screen. Both are pretty easy to apply and really provide extra protection. They’re not that expensive and highly recommended.
The T-Mobile Tap Blue is still a winner in my book.
Rating: 5 / 5
BEST T-MOBIL PHONE YET!
TOUCH SCREEN IS COOL
LIVE RADIO IS COOL
NICE CAMERA
BUY IT!
Rating: 5 / 5