For a couple of years now, we've been waiting for an all-touch phone that is straightforward and compact, yet gives you the sense that it can bark if you say bark. Sense is the keyword here, and we're not talking about the HTC Hero, but the HTC Tattoo.
Our two-year hunt may finally have come to an end as we recently checked out this new mass-market all-touch phone powered by Android OS and HTC's Sense UI. It's not nearly as cheap as the low-end Samsung Corby, but its "adult approach" to this concept should make it worth the unlocked price of approximately $400 at the time of writing.
Since you can load Opera Mini onto the HTC Tattoo, there should also be no need for a data plan if you're only browsing the mobile Web lightly (and if your carrier accepts data connections without a data plan activation, of course).
We played with the HTC Tattoo for about 30 minutes the other day, and we were pleased with the overall performance. The compact form factor combined with the extreme screen accuracy of the unit we were trying also made the HTC Tattoo perfect for one-hand text input. If you've heard resistive screens suck, the HTC Tattoo unit we tried proved otherwise.
As a cell phone replacement the HTC Tattoo will quickly give you a sense of "intelligence in a compact form factor", where the touch interface design more often than usual will make you feel like real life usage has been taken into account.
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