Telstra QWERTY- Touch (T60) review
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Stuck for a last minute stocking stuffer? Why not take a look at the (aptly named) Telstra QWERTY-Touch? This $129 prepaid phone packs a lot of punch.
Featuring a QWERTY keyboard and 2.6” QVGA capacitive touch colour screen (hence the name…), Android 2.3 operating system, an FM Radio and media player, the QWERTY-Touch is available in 2 colours – Raven Black and Flamingo Pink.
The keyboard is great on the QWERTY-Touch. Typing text messages and emails is as good an experience as on far more expensive handsets, and in some cases – a lot better. The touch screen also responds well – but screen size may not suite everyone. Using WhereiS® Navigator, I was able to adequately expand the screen to read street names.
From the Android Market I downloaded a couple of free apps, and then jumped onto Facebook® to see what my friends were up to. Then I jumped onto Mobile FOXTEL from Telstra to watch the news and some sport. I found the video from Foxtel was clear and did not suffer from a small screen at all. Both sound and vision were very clear.
Next the obligatory games were downloaded – and even though I am used to larger screen devices these days, I found the gaming experience to be up to standard.
The QWERTY-Touch is also expandable – up to 32GB of expandable memory via a MicroSD card to store your favourite music. Of course, the standard features of speakerphone, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, alarm, calendar, stopwatch and voice recorder are included.
Talk time is up to 180 minutes and standby time up to 200 hour, and the QWERTY-Touch weighs 126g. Running on the Next G® network, the QWERTY-Touch has HSPDA 7.2mbps and has a 2 mega-pixel camera.
All up, a great entry level Android smartphone just waiting for you to take home.
Do you need to set up the email account before you start to use the qwerty touch? The first thing that came up was an email address that I don’t have, I do have a hotmail account. But no idea how to use this phone as no instruction booklet in the box.
Cheers
Joy
Just bought one, been debloked, would now love to use it but in French ! Maybe someone can tell me how ?
Regards
If someone can tell me how to download french language on it it would be great
where can i get a instruction booklet so i can use this qwerky phone
Hello Lynn, Here is the manual. You can download the Telstra QWERTY- Touch (T60) instruction manual here.