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For onboard features, we'll spare you the details, except to say, the Tilt is a mobile professional's dream come true with a preloaded copy of Office. You can edit and work with your standard group of Office applications and Adobe's PDF format with a plethora of PIM options, including calendar, alarm clock, contacts and e-mail options. The Tilt even comes with a few additional programs, such as Yahoo! Messenger for instant communication. Moreover, you have access to GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connectivity, 3G support and a host of other options (including audio and video playback) that we would much rather have you read on AT&T's site under specifications than us having to repeat them over and again for every phone. There's just nothing exciting going on there mostly.

What is exciting is Tilt's performance, at least in hindsight. Camera quality was decent with a slight orange hue to pictures. You would think a camera with 3.0-megapixels would perform better, but we suppose not. With image resolution ranging from 160x120 to 2048x1536, photo quality could've been improved substantially. Then again, that's what you get for not having flash. Thankfully, you can work with colors for better output. That's what we told ourselves to cope with sub par image quality. Audio quality, on the other hand, was downright amazing. With no interference and static disturbance, we wanted to keep talking on the Tilt until our subjects started hanging up randomly. Some people just don't appreciate good voice quality, apparently. AT&T, it appears, couldn't handle our excitement and broke our hearts again with a terrible speakerphone. The quality was lackluster at best, and it was obvious that we were using a speakerphone with a cloud of air between us and the speaker. Similarly, music quality was lackluster as well with atomically packed tunes. As if the emotional roller coaster wasn't enough, we were again jolted with a shot of pleasure with excellent wireless integration. WiFi signal strength was amazing, and so was 3G. We could easily stream music and video (via AT&T) without any trouble whatsoever. While video looked great, action shots still revealed the ever common pixelation problem. We blame the hardware for that. The GPS option left much to be desired as it took repeated attempts for the device to find the signal and our location before moving forward. Who knew our backyard isn't considered open enough? Hmm... you learn something new everyday. Oh, and don't forget application and display lag that we experienced.

AT&T's Tilt is specified to last 4.4 hours of talk time and 14 days of standby time. We managed to secure 3.8 hours of talk time with a hybrid of activities before the Tilt begged for a recharge.

All in all, AT&T's Tilt is far from perfect, but it's one of the most advanced, on-the-go professional-friendly phone on the market. That's assuming you plan to work on your reports and presentations on your tiny phone, instead of a proper notebook computer. The Tilt is obviously targeted at the productivity obsessed crowd and unless you represent this market, there are better alternatives out there. However, the Tilt could still be worthy of your attention if you want to skip the traditional corporate smartphones.

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