Basic functions
The phonebook has some interesting things. Although it has a capacity of only 500 entries (plus the two SIM cards), its extra fields can be switched off, if we don’t need al 14 types. Contacts can have pictures, sounds and even videos attached to them. Searching is simple and fast, the contact list has no serious issues. It’s a nice thing that when we have a missed call, there is a huge silhouette appearing on the screen, and there is a question mark blinking in the place of the head, even if the caller is known.
Messaging, however, has some serious issues: to begin with, there is no email client. Due to the button layout text entry is a bit difficult, but we might try handwriting recognition – though it won’t solve our problems. Writing an MMS is quite strange, as there are separate menus for entering the addressee, the subject and the slides. Incoming messages make a huge mailbox appear on-screen, so there’s no chance we’ll miss them. This time text entry is not helped by T9, but by the multilingual EZi system. Its efficiency is far from the good old T9, that we are already accustomed to.
The calendar is a very basic one. It has only month view, we can have only one kind of entry, but at least they can repeat. The alarm clock is similar, but there is a serious problem with it: the volume of the alarm cannot be changed. It can vibrate (you should try waking up on this) or it can shout like an animal (this will surely make the whole neighborhood wake up). In the mornings I had the phone in my reach, and just as the alarm went off I immediately shoved the phone under my pillow. The world clock has a map, the default city is Bangkok; there is a currency- and unit-converter too. The calculator has basic functions, and there is a stopwatch.
There are, however, some features that I have never seen on a phone. Call filtering is based on a red- and a blacklist, the first only lets those calls in that are from a specific group, while in the second case we can set up a list of people who we would like to filter out. The phone has the same features for SMS messages too, but the best thing is remote controlling. There are some keywords that, if sent in an SMS, make the phone do what we want, for example we can turn off the phone or activate call diverting from a distance. And it works! I asked my colleague Bocha to send me a message with the text “POWER OFF”. We couldn’t see the message arriving, as the phone turned off. I’ve called him after this to tell him how cool it is and than he started sending me the message again and again, but he had bad luck as we can assign filters for this feature. The built-in answering machine is also worth mentioning, as it is simply genial. We can assign it separately to the SIM cards, we can record different kinds of messages, and the phone plays back the one we have selected when someone calls. The network operator’s answer phone is nothing compared to this.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
