The T-Mobile Tap is a

mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...

manufactured by

Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei" sometimes stylized as "HUAWEI"; ; zh, c=华为, p= ) is a Chinese multinational corporationtechnology company in Longgang, Shenzhen, Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its main product lines include teleco ...

, Inc. and marketed under the

T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand of telecommunications by Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (, ; often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a partially state-owned German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn and the largest telec ...

brand and service. It is also known as the Huawei U7519. It was released in November 2009, and was available in many European and Asian markets.

Features

The Tap features a 2.8-inch

resistive touchscreen A resistive touchscreen is a type of touchscreen, touch-sensitive display that works by detecting pressure applied to the screen. It is composed of two flexible sheets coated with a resistive material and separated by an air gap or microdots. ...

. It also features a 2.0

megapixel In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a Raster graphics, raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device. In most digital display devices, p ...

camera,

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is li ...

connectivity, built-in

GPS The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geol ...

, a music player, and access to T-Mobile's MyFaves. While it lacks a 3.5 mm headset jack, the device instead comes with an in-ear headset that connects through the Tap's

USB Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard, developed by USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), for digital data transmission and power delivery between many types of electronics. It specifies the architecture, in particular the physical ...

port. The phone is also bundled with a USB cable to manage files on a personal computer, Huawei's PC Suite software to manage the files, and a T-Mobile full size

SIM card A typical SIM card (mini-SIM with micro-SIM cutout)A SIM card or SIM (subscriber identity module) is an integrated circuit (IC) intended to securely store an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number and its related key, which are u ...

. A spring-loading

microSD Secure Digital (SD) is a proprietary hardware, proprietary, non-volatile memory, non-volatile, flash memory card format developed by the SD Association (SDA). Owing to their compact size, SD cards have been widely adopted in a variety of port ...

slot is located under the phone's battery cover. Physical buttons are the power button, a lock button and camera launcher on the side of the phone, a call start button, a navigation pad and 'wheel', and a call end button. The physical specifications of this phone are comparable with that of the

HTC Touch The HTC Touch, also known as the HTC P3450 or its codename the HTC Elf or the HTC Vogue for the CDMA variant, is a Windows Mobile 6-powered Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC. Its main, unique feature is a user interface named ''TouchFLO' ...

. The phone currently comes in the colors

midnight blue Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the apparently blue color of a moonlit night sky around a full moon. Midnight blue is identifiably blue to the eye in sunlight Sunlight is the portion of the electromag ...

Support page for T-Mobile Tap
/ref> and berry (metallic pink).Profile of the Tap Berry
at t-mobile.com

Notes

It cannot be used without a SIM card.

External links

Tap profile
at t-mobile.com
Huawei
Deutsche Telekom Huawei mobile phones Mobile phones introduced in 2009 {{mobile-phone-stub