Entertainment

Music downloads are available through AT&T Music's Shop Music section or in the AT&T MEdia Mall folder. Songs can be uploaded to the phone from your PC via Windows Media Player, Windows Explorer or a subscription song service like Napster or eMusic.

Once users have the music, they can play it, organize it, and customize visuals on the phone's music player.

On-demand videos are also available through the Cellular Video (CV), which lists videos by general subject. Users pay for the service on CV, not the individual videos.

Users can also buy ringtones (20 tones come with the phone), Java-run games, graphics, more video, multimedia and applications in the MEdia Mall section.

Although buying applications would enhance the handset's entertainment features, users that opt out of purchasing multimedia can still fill it with self-taken videos and pictures and songs uploaded from their computer.

The CF360 comes pretty bare bones with only a handful of ringtones, no games, and a picture, music and video library waiting to be stocked. Still, there's not much memory left -- 10MB -- to fill, so a microSD card is a must-have purchase for anyone wanting to add gloms of features to the phone.

Internet

With download speeds of up to 3.6Mbps, instant messaging, email downloads and Internet browsing works faster on AT&T's high-speed 3G/HSDPA network. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer Wi-Fi access.

The simplistic browser offers access to the Web, but users can also find sports, news, entertainment and weather updates on MEdia Net. It also offers AT&T Navigator for GPS-based maps and spoken directions to destinations.

Overall, the CF360 offers high-speed Web access with a wide variety of Internet-based applications for message and email service.

Storage

The CF360 has just 10MB of internal memory, extremely low compared to other phones on the market. Similar phones can have up to around 40MB of storage, with smartphones containing 70MB to 1GB of memory set aside for music, videos, photos and applications.

To fully utilizing the CF360's features, users will have to buy a memory card, which can add up to 8GB of storage capability.

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