Gigabyte GSmart MW702 - ugly and tasty

Hirdetés

Hardware, speed, Today screen

The handset, running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, has some really powerful hardware. It’s heart is a 520 MHz Intel/Marvel XScale PXA270 CPU, working together with 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM, we have approximately 100 MB for storing data and 83 for running programs. The chip’s multiplier can be set manually in the settings, when enabling turbo mode we can constantly take advantage of maximum clock speed, but of course power consumption also increases a bit. There is no problem with speed in auto mode, programs launch fast and scrolling doesn’t stutter either. Here are the benchmark results:

The overall image is quite mixed. Pocket PC Mark results are quite impressive, all test have nice results, although the bit more practical VsBenchmark didn’t yield such great marks, the overall score is just a bit above the one of HTC Viva, which has a 200 MHz TI OMAP processor. I have been a bit surprised by this, so I have manually set the CPU to 520 MHz, but unfortunately the situation didn’t change. We might draw the conclusion that the system is not that optimized, but of course it might be that the machine doesn’t like the Virtual Spaghetti test software. This latter though is not such a logical conclusion.

The gadget has a kind of “touch-like” framework, as Gigabyte doesn’t want to fall back in this hype, as this is rather fashionable nowadays. It’s a bit different from HTC TouchFLO, as it’s not a permanently running system, but a program that can be launched manually with a beautiful icon with a house on the Today screen – well, this is not the best, but I’d like to quickly note that Asus also uses a similar solution. This is called Smart Touch and as I have already mentioned it’s launched by tapping the house icon – first it’s slow and then it becomes faster as no matter we return to the Today screen, the program stays in the list of running applications, it doesn’t need much memory (2.21 MB), so it can stay. By the way, about the Today screen: it’s quite crammed up by default, it has all kinds of crap on it and there are four shortcuts in the bottom right corner, which are impossible to tap with a finger. We also have a Quick Menu, this is a quicklauncher, which takes the place of the X button in the top right corner. Unfortunately it won’t end programs, it’s just a shortcut to the built-in task manager and it provides easy access to brightness settings.

So, it’s Smart Touch. It is indeed smart and really a touch interface, it’s a quite good-looking thingy. There are four screens on it, one is blank, there are two clocks (analog and digital) and a calendar, but in the top row we can always see the basic information (events too) and in the bottom there is a nicely scrollable quicklaunch menu, where the order of icons can be changed very spectacularly, it reminds a bit of iPhone. The clock and the calendar display is unnecessary in my opinion, as the time is displayed anyway in the top right corner, so we can see that this is not the point, but the speed dial is. As we have one of these too, we just have to stroke upwards with our finger to access it. The image tells a lot, the only problem with it is that it’s hard to hit the letter we want at first, but we can call anyone with it in a couple of seconds. We can return to the normal screen with the button in the top right corner and the Today screen is just a click away from there.

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