HTC Tattoo gets unboxed & played with at SlashGear

13 October 2009 by Chris Davies

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The entry-level HTC Tattoo has arrived on our test-bench, and over at SlashGear we’ve been putting together some first-impressions and the customary unboxing video. HTC’s latest smartphone may have a lower sticker price than its bigger brothers, but it still gets the HTC Sense UI, 3G HSPA, WiFi b/g and GPS.

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However the touchscreen uses a resistive panel, while the display itself is smaller than the HTC Android devices we’ve seen to-date: 2.8-inches and running at QVGA 240 x 320 resolution instead of 3.2-inches. We’ll be testing out the responsiveness of the resistive panel, together with seeing how cramped the on-screen keyboard gets when you shave off the screen real-estate.

One bonus is that the Tattoo feels pretty swift, running Android 1.6 and the standard Qualcomm CPU so far keeping up with page refreshes, homescreen navigation and all the other things that led some to label the Hero “laggy”. Check out the full first-impressions and a live gallery over at SlashGear.

HTC Tattoo unboxing:

Join the Discussion (5 comments)

hondamx525

10-13-2009 04:23 PM

The link is still broken.
deserttopping

10-13-2009 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hondamx525

The link is still broken.

works now.
vigan8

10-13-2009 06:04 PM

hm, the way this phone looks is weird, its to small, the screen is too small.
Iceberg

10-13-2009 06:37 PM

I like it, I don't like the current roms avilable for the g1 to flash and get that UI. But I think it is a solid phone, I don't understand the Dpad though is it a joystick or what
sashagrey

10-13-2009 09:28 PM

It's a nice looking phone but I'm not sure how I like it over the other models. I really like have the larger screens and I don't know how I feel about the number of buttons.