Introduction, exterior
It’s been a long time since we have seen the first (and only until now) Gigabyte PDA-phone. The device called GSmart i128, equipped with a TV tuner, was probably no big deal for most of you and to tell the truth I had the same attitude: neither negative, nor positive. This has been the reason why I have been surprised when I have visited the website of GPS-Trade where I have seen three new Gigabyte handsets. I have interestingly received a call that day about one of them arriving at us. And I’m testing.
Upon receiving it I had been a bit disappointed by the fact that this is the “smallest” one, MW702, although I would have been more interested in MS820 that has VGA resolution and a 5 megapixel camera, although in the meantime it turned out that sooner or later I might see that one too. The test handset is final from all points of view, so it came in a nice little green box which had the all-seeing eye on its front, this is the GSmart logo. The handset was inside a cushioned groove and to tell the truth only HTC could make such a high-quality box for a PDA so all hats off. The accessories were crammed in a different place, covered in tons of nylon: charger with a changeable connector, car charger, data cable, headset. This is more than enough in this category.
The little MW702 looks really strange. It’s like Chokito: it’s not ugly, it’s not beautiful, it’s just different than the usual. I don’t know what do you think but in my opinion no one has thought of this chocolate that it’s really ugly, how the hell could a chocolate be ugly anyway? This is how the new Gigabyte looks like, it’s just completely different than the ones we’re used to nowadays, and this might be strange at first. I still couldn’t call it good-looking or something, just as it’s not high-quality either. Low- to mid-quality plastics, not exact joints and a bit cracking assembly are characteristic; the worst is the back cover. Still it would be good to hold in our hand, which is probably due to its size, as the handset, weighing 130 grams, is quite large, its exact size is 59.8 x 117 x 14.8 mm.
In spite of the large size the display on the front has a diagonal of only 2.8” and QVGA resolution. This is not the greatest issue with it, but that the panel is very soft, it gets colored on press and has all kinds of problems: it’s not a Touch. In the top center there is the speaker, disguised as a meaningless little stripe, on the right of it there is the Windows Mobile logo that looks like a button. On the button there are the large controls: a five-way d-pad with blue backlight and four keys, they are all really large. They don’t have the best pressure point, but given their size they are easy to use.
On the side there is a chromed stripe. On top there is the strangely placed power button and the single status LED, while on the right there is the 2.5 mm jack output.
On the right we can see the miniUSB connector, the back cover’s release button and the microphone, on the left there is the uncovered microSD slot, the jog-dial, the camera’s exposure button and the reset gap. This can be pressed with the stylus (found in the bottom right corner), which is not high-quality either, it’s mid-sized, made of black plastic and it’s tip stings.
The back is effectively a single piece of plastic with all kinds of labels and design elements, although there is fortunately no 5 x 5 WM logo like on i128. The camera is in the top right corner, with a 3 megapixel lens as we can see on the cover and it has autofocus too, although this is not written on it. On its right there is the handsfree speaker and that’s the end of the parts, next page please.
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