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HTC Tattoo Android SIM-Free Mobile Phone - Silver

by HTC
3 out of 5 stars 22 customer reviews
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  • Android 3g Operating Platform
  • 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
  • 3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus
  • TouchFLO 3D
  • HSDPA/WCDMA/Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
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  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.4 x 10.6 cm ; 998 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 399 g
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  • Item model number: HTC Tattoo A3288 -99HHR033-00
  • ASIN: B002OHCRUI
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 2 Sept. 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 151,327 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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Manufacturer's Description

HTC Tattoo is all about you. It’s the first phone that can be customized inside and out. Decide how your phone looks, then decide what you want to look at. Texts? Twitter? Your photos? When you’re done customizing HTC Tattoo, you’ll have a phone that speaks loudly about who you are and what you’re into.

Make it Mine
Your phone is by your side 24/7 and looks do matter. With HTC Tattoo, you don’t just pick the look, you make the look, by designing your own personal skin for the phone. Next, you decide what really matters to you on your phone. So if you’re into chatting, texting, and tweeting, you’ll put all your communication widgets and apps right on your front screen. If you’re into games, you’ll visit Android Market and download all the games you want. Put them right on the surface - ready to kill boredom whenever it tries to come out.

Stay Close
Do you have a friend like Jack? Jack – sends you 4 SMS/hour, 3 emails/day, updates his facebook status constantly and uploads pictures on Flickr that you just can’t miss. With HTC Tattoo staying on top of Jack’s and your other friends’ lives is dead easy. All you have to do is find a friendly face and your interactions are there, all in one place. So there is no more jumping from one app to another.

Discover the Unexpected
Sometimes there are no words to describe the cool surprises that happen in your life. Even basic functions like the dialer will make you smile on the HTC Tattoo. You can find a friend by dialing their phone number or simply by dialing their name.

If you’re into music, you’ll love the way you can organize all your tunes by album, artist or by playlists you create. And if you’re a photo fan, you’ll rave about the fact that your Album is not just the photos saved on your phone. It is also a gateway to online collections of you and your friends on Facebook or Flickr.

Finding needles in a haystack is no longer a problem with HTC Tattoo. The dedicated Search button sifts through tweets in Twitter?, locates friends in your contact list, finds emails in your inbox, searches through events in the calendar, and scours the web for info.

Box Contains

  • HTC Tattoo Android Sim-Free mobile phone
  • Battery
  • USB cable
  • AC adapter
  • Headset
  • Documentation

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4.0 out of 5 starsA great entry-level smart phone
By P. Barnfather on 22 Mar. 2010
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+ Packed with features (GPS/WiFi/3G/Bluetooth).
+ Usual smartphone apps all present and correct, either preinstalled or free from the Market (Web/Maps/GPS Tracks/Weather/Mail/Contacts/Facebook/Flickr/Twitter/Drop7/YouTube/etc).
+ Nice, compact size; fits in your pocket.
+ Android 1.6 OS gives great power & flexibility.
+ HTC Sense user interface looks great and is easy to use.
+ Sensible connectors (3.5mm headphone + Mini USB). Actually it's an HTC "enhanced" variant of USB so it looks different but a standard USB cable works fine.
+ Great value at the discounted price - under £200 for a fully featured, SIM-free smartphone!
+ Surprisingly good signal and call/audio quality.

- Poor battery life if you use it a lot (1-2 days).
- Camera is rubbish (blurry in low light and lacks autofocus so useless for reading barcodes)
- Occasional quirks/crashes; seems no worse than many smartphones.
- Not all Android apps are available in the Market (due to the smaller screen size).
- Very limited Bluetooth capability (audio only, no file transfer). Will be fixed if/when HTC upgrade the OS to 2.x
- No voice dialling. Should be fixed if/when HTC upgrade the OS to 2.x
- Small, resistive touchscreen makes text entry cumbersome in portrait mode; it is fine in landscape.
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4.0 out of 5 starsCute, intuitive and very good value
By Miss TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 9 Jan. 2010
I have to admit that I chose the HTC Tattoo for two main reasons: firstly, it was nice looking and smaller than most touch screen smart phones, and secondly, it was one of the best value or cheapest. However there are many, many more plus points to the phone than I anticipated.

The phone is simple to set up and you can customise your home screen so that it contains the icons you use most often (mine has text messages, alarms, contacts list and settings). You can then scroll to four other home pages which you can also set up to your liking (mine have links to all my favourite websites so that I can access them instantly, such as hotmail, youtube and of course amazon!)

Internet browsing is excellent on this phone - the screen is large and bright, I can pick up a signal almost anywhere and the internet speed is really impressive. The phone quickly loads up even large files such as youtube videos (and the quality of watching these is excellent as well).

Texting takes a while to get used to if you've not had a touch screen before, but it's not impossible. You can choose between having the screen portrait or landscape and you can also have either a normal phone keypad or a QWERTY keypad on the screen.

The connectivity with social networking sites is great as well. You can link your contacts in your phone book to your facebook friends, so that their status and facebook profile pic appear next to them. The phone gets constant updates from facebook too, which you can access via a small bar at the top of the home screen.

A few things could however be improved upon:

-The battery life is quite poor if you are surfing the net, and you will need to charge it every night, if not more often, if you're doing a lot of internet activity.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWho could resist the HTC tattoo!
By Mrs Gadget on 27 Oct. 2009
Firstly I would like to point out that I have only had this device for 2 days, but WOW! what a lovely bit of kit this is. Extremely easy to use once you get your head around the android OS, and fully customisable to your personal requirements. I mainly used to use my mobile for texting so when deciding which phone to buy this time I was a little worried how I would find a touch screen phone, especially after trying a few of my collegues mobiles with capacative screens as they seemed rather flighty and random as regards text imput. With this in mind I chose to go down the resistive screen route and chose this lovely HTC Tattoo, and how pleased am I, texting is a dream, the contacts list is intuitive, calling is simple, and connecting to the internet and wi-fi and absolute doddle. Email set up was just as easy as long as you have your POP settings from your provider and notifications come through instantly.
This device also supports A GPRS which means it can also be used as a Sat Nav, I was a little concerned at first that the screen would not be large enough but no worries there it's fine. Loads of useful apps are included with the device, but plenty more are available from Google android market, to download, most of which are free. The 7 home screens hold your shortcuts and apps so that everything you use frequently is right at your fingertips e.g. My main screen has the time and weather app and shortcuts to messages, contacts, browser and camera, and subsequent screens have an app for bookmarks which are shown as thumbprints, another has a photoviewer and calender etc,. If I had one niggle it's the camera, it's not wonderful, but as I don't use phone cameras much - preferring my canon, which goes everywhere with me - this is not an issue for me.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsToo cheap
By DavidN on 19 Jan. 2010
The attraction of an Android phone was too much for me and I went for the HTC Tattoo due to price.

It's great at home and most of the time on walk-about. There are both fun and serious applications available free or cheaply. I have Facebook, Twitter, a Skymap that knows which way I'm facing, etc.

Unfortunately, while it has Android, it falls short ... it's not as good as it's supposed to be.

Bluetooth is crippled (like the iPhone) to only talking to a headset. Have I ever used a headset? No. Have I ever used Bluetooth to talk to printer, laptop, or other phones. Yes. But I can't with the Tattoo.

Screen size is smaller than any other Android phone, so many applications are not available. You also spend forever scrolling sideways when browsing.

Camera is weak and only fixed-focus. This mean the clever app that reads a barcode on a shop product and tells you the prices in stores nearby won't work. It can't focus on the bar-code :(

GPS is only 'A-GPS' meaning it only knows roughly where you are.

Cannot be used on a corporate wireless network. This is the worst of all for me. There's nowhere to tell the wifi that you're working behind an authenticating proxy. I don't know how anyone organisation can provide wifi access and stay legal without requiring this.

Finally, battery life is appalling. Has to go on charge every night - and I DON'T leave Wifi, bluetooth or GPS on all the time.
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