Messaging

The Touch Pro2 can send captured photos and videos, text in threaded messages or email, instant message from multiple providers -- AIM, Google Talk, Windows Live, MySpace and Yahoo.

The messaging section where multiple emails can be sent is also where text and multimedia messages arrive. Call history also shows up here, as well as Flickr and Facebook updates. Any time a new message arrives, the message tab in the menu at the bottom of the screen shows how many new messages have arrived.

Integrated messaging and status alerts help keep users in touch and aware, even if they're not thinking about checking messages.

Having several instant messengers is handy but one drawback, though, is clutter -- having so many messages arrive in one screen can get busy, and important messages may get buried.

Entertainment

There aren't many entertainment features on the Touch Pro2 beyond listening to songs. Users can play tracks on repeat, shuffle, or create playlists, and organize songs by artist, title, genre or album.

Consumers can use the included USB cable to sync a computer's song library with the phone and listen to the uploaded music on a stereo headset that also comes with the phone, or on the dual-band speakers on the back of the phone.

There are no videos, although YouTube has its own link in the Internet menu. Games Teeter, Solitaire and Bubble Breaker are available in the program section.

One problem with getting entertainment onto a T-Mobile phone is that it requires having Internet access and going through the browser to a Web2go site. It's nice that applications are available in one place, but it's kind of a nuisance to not just have an application store available with the click of an icon on the home menu.

The Web2go store is not as convenient as the VCAST Music with Rhapsody and VCAST Video applications and not as extensive as Sprint's TV option with shows and movies.

Listening to music, if it isn't too much hassle to find songs to download, is the primary entertainment on the phone. Videos show up well, but are hard to come by if they're not from the Internet. The Touch Pro2 is known as a business phone, and it is, in most ways, all business.

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