Phone calls, GPS
During phone calls I had no problems with voice quality or signal level, fortunately I didn’t notice a second of delay. The GSM module is quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), and we have three UMTS frequencies to use (850/1900/2100), while the handset supports GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA for data transfer. Besides these we can also use 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP. There are phone profiles, we can choose between three: normal, vibrating, muted.
Messaging and the contact list are handled by Outlook, which is great, as we can add contacts until there is some free memory, messaging is flawless, and the e-mail client supports attachments and authenticated IMAP servers as well. It’s quite hard to access the factory default contact list, and this has its reason: Acer developed their own phonebook, which is called Speed Dial for some reason – I would have never guessed that this is the phonebook. This is in fact a matrix, with the first letters being placed horizontally, and we can turn the pages with the abc… on the bottom, or with our finger. Contacts with the same starting letter are displayed on the same screen, in two columns, of course alphabetically sorted. It’s quite an easy to use thingy, but we might have some issues if we have a couple of thousands of contacts, as we can’t scroll, just turn the page – this looks good, but it’s slow. Eight contacts fit on one screen with their phone number, so let’s imagine we have sixty contacts with their name starting with B, and we’re looking for the last one.
The globe on the Acer Shell desk won’t launch the browser, but takes us to the bookmarks. Unfortunately we can only use Internet Explorer for web browsing, although we’ve been doing much better with Opera. I can’t say much about the GPS receiver, the phone I’ve been testing had a non-functional Sygic Mobile Navigator on it, and I’m not sure at all, that this has been installed in the factory. iGO8 ran without a problem, positioning was fast and the signal was stable.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
