Windows Phone Thoughts: O2 XDA Atom Reviewed

Photo Album and Photo Editor
Even though Windows Mobile 5 includes Pictures and Videos, the Photo Album makes for a nice addition, and the Photo Editor has a suprising number of neat features that you can use before sending it out via MMS/email, or whatever.


Figure 20: The Photo Album can handle the 3GP and MP4 videos you make, too.


Figure 21: The Photo Editor has morphing effects, internal clipart, and more.

Self-Diagnostics
This utility will quickly test out all the features of your Atom. The previous firmware update actually gave a failed result for the Checksum test, but was quickly remedied in a quiet February update.


Figure 22: Get some peace of mind knowing your Atom is working well.

Wi-Fi Utility
I was disappointed to see that O2 did NOT include a Wireless Manager to toggle Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. If you decided not to use O2 Plus, you'd have to actually click Start > Settings > Connections > Wi-Fi Utility > Menu > Turn Wi-Fi On. The Microsoft stack-based Bluetooth applet requires nearly the same number of clicks. Luckily, I'm told that the upcoming firmware update has a real Wireless Manager.


Figure 23: The Wi-Fi Utility is several clicks away.