[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
Ok folks, I thought I would do a little show and tell regarding my trip to Las Vegas. I am hoping to provide a review that will show how versatile the xda really is. First I will start with it a little back ground and statistical information.

Phone: Tilt, 2gb micro SD, Dutty’s last ROM.

Accessories:

Naztech N300 3-in-1 Mobile Phone Charger

http://www.wirelessemporium.com/pro...-1-mobile-phone-charger-motorola-razr2-v9.asp

4-Pin Mini-B Retractable USB Cable, 2.6 feet

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=250789

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard

http://www.amazon.com/Stowaway-Ultr...ndhelds/dp/B0002OKCXE/ref=tag_stp_st_edpp_ttl

Smartphone Experts Mini USB Stereo Adapter for AT&T Tilt

http://www.tiltdepot.com/smartphone-experts-mini-usb-stereo-adapter/12A45A2373.htm

The adventure started Tuesday morning at 4:25am, the phones alarm was set to wake me up at 4:30am, but the excitement had me up early. Good thing, because I screwed up and put PM next to the time. Oops. A couple of hours later I make it to the airport with no problems. Before getting on the plane I set my weatherbug today plugin for Las Vegas and then turn the phone off.

Weatherbug: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=404969&highlight=weatherbug

Once on the plane and in the air we are told that it’s ok to turn electronic items back on unless they are cell phones. Well this isn’t a cell phone it’s an xda. So I turn it on and make sure it’s in airplane mode. The first thing I do is grab my head phones with the mini usb adapter and start watching some Starwars themed Robot Chicken with Coreplayer.

http://www.coreplayer.com/

While flying I watched a couple of things and read a book, nothing overly exciting. When we land we are told that it’s ok to turn on our cell phones, so I hit the com manager and turn off airplane mode. I was surprised that the time didn’t auto update like my Treo 650 had the years before. (neither did the 2 Moguel’s that my friends had) After setting everyone’s second time zone for them we were off. The lovely weatherbug informed us that the temp was a cool 102 and climbing. (yes folks it hit 108 later on that day).

So the phone had done some work to entertain me but so far it hadn’t done too much to talk about. I was able to enjoy having hsdpa service for once and loved it. Of course I used to the com manager to keep it off when it wasn’t needed by me, the phone can auto update stuff on edge for all I care. During this time another app had it’s chance to shine. Kaiser Tweak allowed me do disconnect data after 5 seconds of no use, and boy did that save battery life. Being out of town with a dead or dying phone isn’t something I want.

Kaiser Tweak: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=333898

While in Vegas I finally got my Skyfire download, so I opened the com manager and kicked on 3g+ and was rockn the downloads. I installed Skyfire but had to play some pool so I didn’t get a chance to use it at that point.

Skyfire Beta: http://www.skyfire.com/

I went to vegas with 6 people that all wanted to do different things, then 2 more arrived with another 4 a few days later. This sort of diversity allowed the Tilt to stand proud. Some people tried to use the phone book to find numbers or addresses, but not this guy. Google Maps FTW!

Google maps: http://www.google.com/mobile/default/maps/

This sweet app (which updated while I was there) auto updated its location to vegas and helped find number and addresses within seconds. At one point I even used the GPS part of it for directions to something off the strip. TomTom would have been better because of the turn by turn instructions, but I was bull headed and didn’t install it ahead of time.

TCPMP helped out every single day. (this will be kinda silly) Being that others were just outside the restroom door as I was handling business in near silence, I decided to crank up some Tool and jam out while letting the kids go for a swim. (I didn’t want to lose the place of the movie I hadn’t finished on the flight so tcpmp got the audio duties).

TCPMP: http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/

While haggiling on the price of pool sticks and cases we used the calculator that was built in. At one point we all ate out at a very nice restaurant and we had to use several htc phones to figure out who owed what.

One of the people from the last group to show had brought a Macbook and wanted to get online to check email and you would think the casino would have free wifi. NOPE.. So me being the tech baller that I am, I install an old WMwifirouter cab that was on my phone. DOH it had expired. So I cranked up Skyfire and pain stakingly finding the site to download it from I find out that Skyfire is going to flake on my and not allow it to download on me. (Thanks Skyfire you suck) What a crappy first impression. So I fire up PIE and it works flawlessly, I install the new cab and we are cruising at hsdpa speed on the notebook. Everyone was amazed.

WMWifiRouter: http://www.wmwifirouter.com/

Again Skyfire let me down, we were waiting for our plane to show up and we knew that weather back home was bad (thanks again weatherbug) but we didn’t know how it would affect our flight. We just happened to have someone with us that worked for an airliner and had all sorts of websites that would give us info on how bad the flight would be. Well Skyfire wouldn’t allow a secure connection, but PIE would so again PIE saved the day. (I forgot to mention that one of the people that arrived later was able to do online check in over the phone, getting them a better seat on the plane, truly handy)

I never had to use the BT keyboard while I was there and the charger/usb extension was my best friend. Even charging the HTC touch a friend had while we were at Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville.

The app that saved the day was Pocket Word, because without that I wouldn’t have known where I parked my car and everyone else lost their parking info. The coolest App was GPStoday because I turned it on while in the air and everyone could see that we were going 550mph.

GPSToday: http://www.geoterrestrial.com/

The Camera was a champ, I took photos left and right, mainly to show off here. I did notice that it snaps photos super fast out in the sun and then waits forever in dim areas (we all know that). The camera was best used to catch a photo of a guy that was drunk and passed out in the casino. I took a single of him with my phone and then we posed with him and took snaps with a touch (because it’s snaps them faster) I am going to post the pics I took with the camera whenever I get home. I did a lot of panoramic pics that I hope you will like.

I really want people have a good idea of what this phone can do. It exceeded my expectations on a 4 day trip and I can’t imagine how useful it could be to a business person.

I love my Tilt