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HTC Trinity P3600 review | Connections

Published on: Monday, April 2nd 2007                   Written by: Nic Rossmüller - Photography by: Dennis Hissink

HTC P3600 - Wi-Fi connection

You can browse the Internet via a Wi-Fi connection with HTC's phones. You can internet quickly via the wireless connection at home. The HTC P3600 also has Outlook so that you can check your E-Mail when you are not at home. At airports and events, you can also make use of access points, also known as hot spots. Under favourable circumstance, the HTC P3600 has a range of about 100 meters and is quick and stable. You can also choose the airplane setting via the connection menu. With this setting you can leave your phone on in the plane, but all connections are switched off.

HTC P3600 - Internet Explorer

The HTC P3600 also has Internet Explorer. You can go on Internet with the W-LAN connection I just mentioned, or make a connection via GPRS, HSDPA of a phone in connection. It takes a little time to get used to the look of the pages. Because not everything can fit on the screen, you will have to keep on scrolling horizontally. It s a handy feature if you want to look something up quickly when you are away from home. You can also save pages as favourites and scrolling with the pen on the touch screen is also very handy.

 

HTC Trinity P3600 - Office functions

HTC Trinity P3600 - Office functions

HTC P3600 - Microsoft office functions

If you have collected your mail and there is a Word, Excel, PDF or PowerPoint file, you can see and rework it via the office programs on the HTC P3600. You can zoom in and out in the document and use practically all the handy functions. The scroll function via the touch screen also comes in handy here. You will find the diary on the start up screen. The diary function is very large, so that you can add notes and set the place, time, date, category and how often you wish to be reminded. When you have arrived at your appointment and have a conversation that you need to remember, you can record it with a touch of the Voice recording button.

HTC Trinity P3600 - Battery

HTC Trinity P3600 - Battery

HTC P3600 - Lithium Ion battery

The HTC Trinity P3600's battery is a 3.7V, 1500mAh Lithium Ion battery. According to HTC, it's good for a stand by period of almost 10 days and 5 hours phoning. The stand-by time if you do not use the phone is roughly accurate; depending on the temperature it could also be 9 or 11 days. The conversation time of 5 hours has been rather optimistically estimated. It is just 4 hours and losing an hour is quite a lot, but this is also due to playing around with the phone during stand by time. If you connect the phone to your computer via USB, the battery is recharged immediately. This is very handy.

 

HTC P3600 - Touch screen

HTC P3600 - Touch screen

HTC Trinity P3600 - Touch screen

The HTC Trinity P3600 has a 2.8-inch (7.11 cm) touch screen with 65,536 colours. The picture has clear, bright colours and is great to work with. The touch screen takes a bit of getting used to, but whether you work with a pen for the screen or you use your finger (which can be impossible because the keys are too tiny) the touch screen works well and quickly. I prefer to use a pen for the pressure sensitive screen, otherwise it just gets covered in fingerprints and this spoils its appearance. If a pen breaks, you can order a new one quite quickly.

HTC P3600 - Sound quality

HTC P3600 - Sound quality

HTC Trinity P3600 - Sound quality

One of the most important things in a mobile phone is of course, sound quality. I immediately noticed that the reception with the HTC Trinity P3600 was better than with my own mobile. Voices sounded clear and were not crackly and people said I was easy to understand. I also tried out the accompanying head telephone with hands free set and this also had good sound quality and was nice to carry around. It is handy that you can take calls via the button on the headphone's microphone.

 
 
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