HTC Snap with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard

The phone portion of the Snap works well. Simply dial the name of the person you want to call from the Home screen, and a list of matches will appear.

Here is what Call History looks like.

When you get a call, you get a nice-sized caller ID picture if you have a photo associated to that particular contact.

Then, once on a call, you can drill into the right soft key menu to flip on speakerphone, or you can hold down the Call Start button. The speakerphone works quite well with loud volume and good sensitivity.

SETTINGS

Here is the sleek-looking Communication Manager which lets you mange all of the wireless radios. The Snap has WiFi.

There aren't that many settings on the Snap that are unique. We'll go through the ones that are now.

As with other HTC devices, you can choose to reject a call with a text message. Also, you can turn on and off the feature that will vibrate the phone once the other caller has picked up.

As with other Windows Mobile devices, you can change the home screen layout.

The best choice seems to be HTC Home, which gives you the added panels that we showed you on the previous page.

You can adjust the backlight on four levels. I kept it on three most of the time, with four being max brightness.

Oddly, the light sensor will not regulate screen brightness. Rather, it will only control keypad backlight.

By default, aGPS was disabled. Weird. You're definitely going to want to have this on to get a faster GPS fix.

And finally, here is the adjustment for trackball sensitivity. Even on the fastest setting, the sensitivity wasn't quite high enough.

This video shows some software features that we've written about so far in this review.

CAMERA

The camera application on the HTC Snap works quite well.

You can make changes to brightness, white balance, resolution, and so on.

Because the Snap has no autofocus, close up shots come out blurry. Also, the colors on the shot were dull.

Because there is no flash, the Snap doesn't do well in low light conditions, such as those indoors.

And here is a shot taken outside. The Snap did generally well with the colors, but if you click the picture to see the original, you'll see lots of noise.

Click here to see a sample of some QVGA video in 3GP format. The video quality isn't great.

Click on to the next page as we finish up the review with notes on battery life, Pros and Cons, and more.