AT&T F160

The good: The AT&T F160 is ablaze and comfortable, with acceptable alarm affection and several convenient features. It's a 3G-capable apple phone, which should abode to travelers.

The bad: Photos are chapped and arid on the AT&T F160's 3-megapixel camera, and the speakerphone could be improved. You accept to abolish the array to admission the microSD agenda slot.

The basal line: A 3G apple phone, the chargeless AT&T F160 has a solid architecture and features. Strong alarm affection makes it ideal for talk-heavy users, but its camera will avert photographers.

AT&T F160

A buzz charge not accept every exceptional absurdity for it to be a acceptable device, and the ZTE-made AT&T F160 illustrates that point beautifully. Sure, as a simple midrange handset, it absolutely isn't recommended for ability texters or multimedia geeks and with its matte atramentous appearance, it's far from showy.

What it does, however, is abundantly bear on actualization and architecture with a light, slim, and adequate body; a acknowledging keypad; acceptable alarm quality; and advantageous account touches. Best of all, the AT&T F160 is chargeless with a two-year contract, authoritative it an anytime added admired no-fuss buzz for callers. The AT&T F160 costs $149.99 after a contract. For ZTE, which has produced several clunkers (like the maligned ZTE Agent), the F160 is a acceptable footfall in the appropriate direction.

Design

ZTE's atramentous AT&T F160 is a nondescript, mostly matte atramentous anatomy with attenuate architecture features--slightly angled corners and a brace of argent accents. Like abounding ZTE phones, it's alpine and lean--4.8 inches tall, 1.9 inches wide, and 0.4 inch thick. We can't ahead of abounding pockets or purses too bank for its angular profile. The F160 additionally is light, aloof a beard below 3 ounces, but after activity chiffon or fragile. Attainable to grab up with a soft-touch backing, the F160 feels adequate in the duke and on the ear.

The AT&T F160 may alloy into the backdrop with its attenuate design, but it delivers area it counts.

The 2.4-inch awning seems a acceptable admeasurement for the phone's attenuate face. Its 240x320-pixel QVGA resolution is standard, but with 262,000 colors, it additionally looks ablaze and colorful. Aeronautics is straightforward, with a filigree agenda that ancestor up aback you columnist one bendable key, and a actual attainable account of shortcuts for the camera, calling history, and so on that ancestor up with a columnist of the added bendable key. Settings let you change the wallpaper, backlight duration, and awning brightness, additional set a cossack awning greeting. We aloof achievement you're blessed with the chantry appearance and size, because it doesn't arise that you can change them.

Below the awning are the two bendable keys, the Send and End buttons, and the Clear and Shortcuts key. The closing makes it attainable to toggle amid screens, like your Agenda and the Home screen. A four-directional aeronautics toggle additionally is present, forth with its axial baddest button. We had no complaints accepting around.

The alphanumeric keypad buttons are advanced and rather short; however, they're gratifyingly acknowledging and the domed centers accomplish them attainable to columnist and to punch by feel. Two multifunctional buttons administer over three tasks: locking the screen, axis the buzz to beat mode, and alteration the argument mode. Sure, phones with abounding QWERTY keyboards are bigger for able texters, but the F160's adapted keypad and attainable automated predictive texting accomplish agreement manageable.

As for the added alien features, the spines authority the aggregate rocker, a camera bang button and Micro-USB charging port, and a 3.5 millimeter angle jack. On the aback is a 3-megapixel camera, and below the aback awning is the microSD agenda aperture that can booty up to 8GB alien memory. Unfortunately, it's alone attainable already you've removed both the aback awning and the battery.

Features

Despite the F160's backward look, it has added aliment than you'd anticipate, acknowledgment in allotment to AT&T's arranged services. There's allowance in the F160's abode book for 500 contacts, and anniversary access can host your contact's name, assorted buzz numbers, assorted e-mail addresses, a artery address, and a ringtone. Twelve ringtones appear on the phone, but you can sub in your own via the microSD card, or buy ringtones in the AT&T store. Ringback tones, while a abstracted acquirement through AT&T, are addition option. Unfortunately, adhering a photo ID to your acquaintance isn't--an odd blank for a camera phone.