HTC Tattoo Review

The Tattoo sports a great design, the design is basic but that just means that it’s sporting a already proven design that has worked in the past and still holds true. The device has all the buttons we always see from HTC, menu, back, home and search, call. Instead of a trackball this time they choose to install a four way directional pad that works, only just feels less fast than the HTC Hero/Dream and the HTC Magic. Less smooth but workable, the interface is as snappy as the HTC Hero (and the sprint version) with their current software upgrade. One thing we haven’t seen before though is the removable covers, HTC is really trying to get to the ‘general public’ with this affordable and personal looking device.

Ok now we get to the thing that really makes this cell phone different and we guess cheaper then the other Android smartphones HTC has released thus far. The touch screen is only 2.8 inches in diagonal and has a resolution of 320×240 (QVGA) where all the other Android phones released thus far have a resolution of 480×320 (HVGA). This is quite a drop in resolution also considering these days lots of smartphones have been coming out with WVGA screens, though not in the Android segment yet.

There is a resistive LCD instead of a capacitive, which means the LCD is pressure sensitive and it’s not made of  hard glass. The screen does seem quite responsive but not as responsive as the devices with capacitive touch screens. It’s decent enough, considering this is meant to be a budget phone.

The Android smartphone is made around the same hardware as all their Android devices so far released (the Qualcomm MSM7225) and quite frankly does the job. We are waiting for the first HTC Android cell phone that sports a Snapdragon CPU (HTC Dragon is rumored).  Enough of the sidestepping now, the CPU does its job, and because the Tattoo has a smaller resolution then its predecessors the UI should run smoother then the Hero, though as said before it is smooth, and that is more then enough.

The camera is 3.2 mega pixels and it’s a bit of a downgrade comparing it to the Hero but it makes decent pictures and it’s fine for using it for facebook/twitter and other social networking from your mobile device. The battery life is the same as any other android phone we tested so far from HTC. When used heavily you get a day, with less use you get 48 hours which is acceptable. There is nothing more to say without basically copying it from the other HTC Android cell phone reviews, a bit the same thus far.

The android device is profiled as a low end device, and even though it has the same CPU speed as all its predecessors the device really is just that. The Tattoo is just a bit less powerful at all things then the other devices out there. Lower resolution, worse camera then the Hero, the other phone that runs Sense by HTC. The resistive screen is disappointing, but other than that it’s a good device. Why not pay a small amount more and get a HTC Hero? If there is no budget holding you back go for the Hero over the Tattoo for sure.

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