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alaTest has collected and analyzed 1604 reviews from magazines and websites. Reviewers really like the connectivity. The screen also gets good feedback, but many are critical about the battery.

Experts rate this product 82/100 and users 68/100. We analyzed these ratings, the product age and more factors. Compared to other Cell phones the HTC Kaiser / HTC TyTN II / HTC P4550 / O2 XDA Stellar / T-Mobile MDA Vario III / AT&T Tilt is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 87/100 = Very good quality.

For instant access to email and a Qwerty keypad that sits up like a mini-laptop, T-Mobile's MDA Vario III could be the perfect business phone. With its new hard-hitting features including GPS and a satellite navigation device, plus the network's HSDPA ...

Tilting screen ; Qwerty keypad ; GPS ; Wi-Fi ; HSDPA

Lack of flash on the 3-megapixel camera

HTC has once again produced a feature-packed Windows Mobile handset that delivers in almost every department. If you need instant access to email and prefer using a Qwerty keypad over a standard mobile phone one, the T-Mobile MDA Vario III might be ...

Can HTC be crowned king of the smartphone world?

The HTC TyTN II is a brick of a mobile phone that is as about as exciting as watching paint dry. However, with so much packed into the device you can't help think that for the geeky mobile worker open to the idea of anything that is Microsoft powered ...

The best smartphone out there, coupled with the best tariffs - the T-Mobile Vario III is just about perfect.

The Vario range goes from strength to strength with this third generation unit pushing the smartphone envelope. I'd be hard pushed to think of any features that are missing from this device (bar a 3.5mm headphone jack), and perhaps the next ...

Can HTC improve on its superb TyTN smartphone? You bet it can!

Will the Taiwan-based company's latest QWERTY-enabled PDA-phone be as big a hit as the Dopod 838 Pro was? We make an early analysis.

A host of data connectivity options including HSDPA ; GPS with bundled maps ; good battery life ; 3-megapixel autofocus camera

Heavy and bulky ; still QVGA display ; no camera light ; no audio mini-jack

3G technological aspects. An even faster technology than the 3G in the data transfer field that is much talked about these days - the HSDPA, is also an ingredient of this mobile phone. However, the HSDPA version supported by this phone is not exactly ...

The HTC TyTN II is a Pocket PC smartphone. Created by High Tech Computer Corporation of Taiwan, its innovative tilting touch screen feature, with a with a left-side slide-out QWERTY keyboard makes it an interesting, devise that could very well be from ...

HTC must hire someone full-time in Taiwan to sit on TyTN IIs just before they ship, while another employee zips them up. This monstrously powerful PDA phone is bursting with easy to use features: from tri-band 3G, quad-band GSM and full-fat HSDPA to a ...

The keyboard could be bigger and less plasticky, but certainly does the job of keeping up with the boss's increasingly frantic emails wanting to know where you are (better than the iPhone, at least). The GPS ships with maps for one measly city on ...

Face it, there's just no way your company is going to spring for an iPhone. The TyTN II, on the other hand, is just geeky and clunky enough to get past that hatchet-faced harridan in Accounts.

Determined to prove that it can make a Windows Mobile device that is both fun to use

Packed with software / large Qwerty keyboard / built-in GPS

Slow / requires a stylus to use the touch screen properly

With the TyTN II, HTC has tried to make this smartphone more consumer-friendly, placing more emphasis onto things like the built-in media player, and adding its own home screen interface that displays in one easy view how many unread emails, text ...

The T-Mobile MDA Vario III is essentially the HTC TyTN II, but the T-Mobile version comes with a few customisations to its exterior and provides a range of utilities alongside ...

The T-Mobile MDA Vario III provides a good alternative to the sim-free HTC TyTN II. The same specification is still evident, with a strong performing GPS receiver and respectable memory, but the silver finish of the Vario looks a lot better than the ...

The touchscreen has small icons that pretty much oblige you to use the stylus while you hold the phone in both hands

Tilting keyboard ; 3G ; Good connectivity

Quite bulky ; Small icons on screen

What's more, HTC has even included a GPS receiver which rounds out the features list admirably, but what really separates the TyTN II from the competition is the tilting keyboard, as it hugely improves the experience of sending email and SMS while you ...