Box, exterior
As compared with the fact that one could buy this ducky handset for less than €84 EUR, I had a really nice box to open. There is a surprising number of accessories inside, there is a USB cable, a headset, a globe-like something that can be hung on the phone, and there is a belt-tweezers-like thingy that can be connected with the previously mentioned globe, but this doesn’t seem like a user-friendly solution.
No matter, here is the phone. It exists in three different colors, besides the violet and green I had the luck to receive the cherry-colored one, although I don’t think I had been much braver with the other ones either when getting out of the car. The upper part of the clamshell’s front cover has a shiny, glittery finish, so the phone can be seen blinking from long distances.
Besides this the front also has three buttons (for controlling the music player), while the shiny surface is split in two at the center by the one-liner, blue-text OLED screen. This is nothing new from Alcatel, as the same has been used on C701 too. There are no buttons on the sides, but there are some small “doors”, covering the miniSUB and the headset connector. On the back we can see the Mandarina Duck logo.
The cover opens softly, but this is no compensation. That’s because the keypad is a horror, both in terms of visuals and usability, it’s a great example of over-arced design. The numeric keys would be so-so, but what is above them can only be the result of one of the designer’s nightmares. A total of 10 keys have been crammed in there, the camera’s hotkey is crammed on top of the navigation pad’s upwards direction key, which I think is unnecessarily so emphasized in the case of a VGA camera. The whole interior surface is extremely red, if I’d be swinging it around for a while I could become a toreador! The blue backlight for the keypad fits as good as a moustache-frame for Jessica Alba.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
