Basic Features

"Inner Circle" is the Snap's most talked-about feature. It allows users to pre-select a list of people they hear from the most (or want to hear from the most) and then emails from those individuals rise to the top of the inbox.

The handset is built around messaging. It can send and receive email, text and media messages. Picture and video messages can even be sized for messaging before the photo is ever shot.

Running Windows Mobile 6.1, the smartphone can surf the Web with Internet Explorer, download and transfer music from a computer and listen using Bluetooth compatible headphones. Users can check the weather, make and review appointments and view the task manager to access to each applications.

The Snap comes with Adobe Reader LE and Office Mobile so workers can edit, send and receive office documents on the go.

Additional features include an alarm clock, calculator, voice commands and notes, task list, an Audio Booster for headset use, a software store and a variety of search, site and news applications.

The phone has up to 4.6 hours of talk time capability, and can remain on standby for up to a little over 13 days.

The Snap appears message-focused at first, but its access to popular Internet tools and sites and document editing software packs a surprising punch.

If the Snap has room to grow, though, it would benefit from including options that are standard on most other phones, like a notepad, stopwatch, tip calculator and a world clock.

Screen

The handset has a 2.4-inch TFT-LCD screen with LED backlighting.

The 65K-color display shines. It doesn't smudge easily -- a definite advantage -- and images appear crisp and clear on the phone.

While wallpaper transparency can be adjusted, at the standard 70 percent, photos appear washed out while menu options become harder to read -- a no-win situation. But photos look good in the album, just not on the home screen.

The Snap's display size and brightness is decent. It is sufficiently large and bright for business use such as emailing and text messaging. But for multimedia use, such as watching videos, there are better smartphone on the market that offer a larger screen and more colors.

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