Exterior
I always liked the exterior of the gloofish series’ members’, as the silvery plastic and the brushed metal frame surrounding the display have an elegant, modern effect. The concept is the same at M800 too, but the manufacturer tried to give a “pearl” effect for the plastic parts, but the result is not exactly what they expected I think. The handset gives the impression of cheap, one of a dozen Chinese product – furthermore someone had some rough play with the one I had been testing, as the painting came off in some parts, thus further strengthening the previously mentioned negative effect.
Although the phone has no great differences compared to X800, besides the QWERTY keyboard, it’s still much larger. It weighs 178 grams, which falls quite far from the compact category – even though X600 is a nice little piece of hardware – and even its physical size is large, 57.8 x 113.8 x 18.4 mm, which would fall more like in the “brick-size” category. So M800 is not small, it’s uncomfortable to have it in our pocket.
The secondary camera is in the top left corner of the front cover, on the right side of it we can see the phone’s speaker and the usual label. The display has a diagonal of 2.8”, VGA resolution and there is a brushed metal frame surrounding it, which has two status LEDs in its top corners. In the lower part we can see the greatest horror, the nightmare of all users, the touch-sensitive navigation keypad. To further spice up this already flavored meal of pain, the Taiwanese designers also added a small (read: hard to use) joystick. There are 4-4 keys around this, which are small, close to each other, get pressed easily when the phone is in our pocket, and it’s unusable for men’s hand anyway. I could only use the phone after disabling a part of these keys, but unfortunately this can’t be done to the dial/reject call keys, so the little glofiish initiated random calls to the contacts at the beginning of my contact list. It was a real experience.
The back cover is puritan, the designers tried to enhance it with the camera, but this was unsuccessful. There is a large black frame around the 2 MP autofocus camera, to the right we can see the LED flash, the mirror for making self-portraits and the handsfree speaker. On the bottom there is an engraved Windows Mobile logo.
The top part of the gadget has all the colors of the rainbow, in the topmost part there is the previously mentioned pearl-like grey plastic, under that there is a metallic, golden-colored stripe, in the middle we can see a soft, black plastic part with a stripe that is intended to be decorative and in the bottom part there is the terrible grey color again. Otherwise this part is empty, as the power button, the camera’s exposure button and a glofiish label are on the right side.
The stylus’ holder, the miniUSB port, the covered microSD slot, the microphone and the dent used for taking off the back are all on the bottom. On the left there is the 2.5 mm jack output, the reset gap, the Dictaphone’s hotkey and the volume control buttons.
Pushing the upper part to the right we get to see the 37-key QWERTY keyboard with a backlight. This may be the only part of the device that is completely all right, the keys are of an appropriate size, it’s all easy to use. Turning the phone over we can see that the area beyond the display is of gold/copper-colored metal, which matched the grey like… well, I can’t really think of anything funny here, so I’ll just say it looks really dumb.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
