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Motorola Tundra is a resistant phone, and it confers the user a sturdy and comfortable feel. It has military specifications certification for rain, shock, and other external factors which may action on it. It has an external antenna, which is quite a rarity on mobile phones these days, but it's not extendable, and this makes Motorola Tundra similar with Nextel phones.

Its dimensions: 3.85 inches by 2.10 inches by 0.96 inch and 4.94 ounces give this phone a durable design and taking into account that the front and rear faces are plastics, but edges covered in rubber, we can say that this phone has a comfortable and resistant look.

The external display is quite small, 1 inch diagonally, but it shows the necessary information, like date, time, battery life and signal strength, and it supports photo caller ID because it is full color. The camera is right above the display and it doesn't have a flash. All the controls are covered with a rubber surface, and on the bottom there is a mini USB slot for an USB cable and a charger. The display on the inner side is 2.2 inches, and it has bright colors, sharp graphics, easy and user friendly menus. the brightness can be changed, and the backlight also, but not the font size.

This phone's keypad and the array for navigation are excellent and I like that both are spacious and that the navigation array has a OK button with a circular toggle around. The keypad has large buttons, and I think this is a cool aspect of the design, it has bright backlight and it is easy to use for dialing and texting.

The phonebook can be stored on 100 MB of the internal memory, and if you need more, you can go on those 250 contacts on the SIM card. Every contact can get five numbers, an e-mail address, mail addresses (three of them), birthday field, and other fields, which are pretty much information for each person. You can customize each person with a photo ID and one of the polyphonic ringtones you have on the phone. This mobile phone has vibrate mode, calendar, PC syncing, voice dialing, Web based POP3 e-mail and text and multimedia messages support, an alarm clock and a world clock, a voice recorder, task list and notepad.

Tundra offers the whole set of AT&T's wireless broadband multimedia services and Cellular Video and AT&T Mobile Music have simple designs and I like that they support a large palette of file formats. Motorola Tundra has a quite solid selection of music features, like Radio Mobile, Billboard Mobile channel and it offers access to fan sites, communities and music downloads.

The camera offers 2 Mp possibilities, four picture resolutions, three settings for quality and you can use the night mode also, you can modify the exposure and the lighting conditions, the color tones and the shutter sounds. Photos can be tagged and you can insert them into multimedia messages automatically. Video recording options are quite ok, but the resolution is far too small, 176x144 or 128x96 and you can record in multimedia message mode (24 seconds) or normal mode (unlimited).

Motorola Tundra's battery life is 5 hours of talk time and 14 days on standby mode. FCC radiation tests are around 1.36 W/KG. The connection is strong for downloads and browsing the Internet, and the Cellular Videos load in 10 seconds on average. Tundra's quality is much better than many other AT&T phones. Sound matches the video but sometimes, videos paused to re buffer, and the sound/image lag was noticeable.

I think that Motorola Tundra, with its sturdy design is a great phone, with an easy-to-use interface and a good call quality, but I don't like the low quality media system (and this means poor photo quality and streaming video with lag). This phone is great for the making calls function, but the multimedia field has some lacks.