Latest T-Mobile Tap Phone, Berry (T-Mobile) Review: Features, Specs and Price
T-Mobile Tap Phone is a 3G-enabled touchscreen phone in berry with intuitive interface and customizable home screen, It is compatible with T-Mobile’s 3G network, T-Mobile’s myFaves service provides unlimited calling to your five most called contacts, GPS-enabled with optional TeleNav service. It boasts a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music, microSD memory expansion to 8 GB, you can access to personal email and instant messaging with this phone. It supports up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 300 hours (12.5 days) of standby time, so you have nothing to worry.
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. So I’m sure you’ll love this phone.
The Good:
- Stylish and slim design;
- Good feature set for the price
The Bad:
- Touch interface is slow;
- Small, low-res display
Bottom Line:
- The eye-catching T-Mobile Tap offers a solid set of multimedia features, but is hindered by a slow touch interface.
As a super popular phone, the T-Mobile Tap comes with some really brilliant features, let’s have a close look at them.
Features:
- Fast 3G connectivity via T-Mobile’s HSDPA/UMTS network (1700/2100 MHz bands, UMTS/HSDPA)
- Quad-band GSM phone for good global voice connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands)
- myFaves capable
- 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
Of course, these are just the main features this phone offers, you’ll find out more great features when you get the phone.
Specs:
- 3G-enabled touchscreen phone in berry 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
Price as Reviewed: $0.01 (with new service plan) (on Amazon)
Needless to say, this is a FREE phone, what we need to pay for is the service we are going to use, no wonder so many people are crazy about it.
So what do you think about the T-Mobile Tap Phone?
Purchase or learn more about the T-Mobile Tap Phone on Amazon and eBay.






I purchased a Tap phone today and so far am somewhat pleased — I am not so sure the web browser is adequate but time will tell. I bought at Radio Shack and got the phone for free because I upgraded an existing Tmobile account.
I like the feel and look of the phone.
So far I rate in a B plus!