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Fareed Mahdi
Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006
by Fareed Mahdi, Cell Phone Editor
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Display & Audio

 
Editor Rating: 4.8
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HTC Wizard/T-Mobile MDA displayThe Wizard has an outstanding color display. The display is touch screen and supports 65,000 colors.

For such a small phone the display is fairly big, it is 240x320 pixels. The display is mostly meant to be used with the stylus; however you can still utilize hot keys for the programs you use the most.

The Wizard supports mp3 files using the built in Windows Media Player. It works seamlessly when listening to music. You can also play many other types of audio but .mp3 are the most practical. One of the good things about Windows Mobile phones is the countless applications. A must have program for Windows Mobile phones is a program called TCPMP formally known as Betaplayer. This is a free program that has many more capabilities than Windows Media Player. Some features include: watching Divx and other kinds of video, making play lists within the program etc. The Wizard’s sound is superb quality, and has dual speakers on both sides of the phone.     

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