Exterior
I have already mentioned on the previous page that our business navigator is not small; we could say that it’s large. It weighs almost 150 grams and its size is 60.3 x 117 x 17.5 mm, so it’s no pocket device. It’s not exceptional in terms of material quality, but it’s basically fine, the back is made of a rubber-like plastic that feels good to touch; the area around the display is made of the same material, while the grey part running around the sides is made of a harder plastic.
The display has a diagonal of 2.8” and QVGA resolution. Its image quality is rather good, the colors are vivid. The panel is situated quite deep, which doesn’t make finger tapping too easy. Above it we can see the inevitable speaker, the two status LEDs and the manufacturer’s logo. In the center there is an iPAQ Business Navigator label, while in the bottom there is the special keypad. It’s uniqueness is due to the Smart Touch Wheel technology: as you can see on the picture there is a touch-sensitive circle around the numeric part, which lets us scroll the currently displayed content, just like on an iPod. It’s a very smart idea, it’s easy to use, but there still are two problems with it: the first is that the OK button is in the bottom left part so we constantly have to keep stretch our hands there – I would have preferred the part between the five and eight to be also touch-sensitive – and the second is that it’s a bit strange to press the 2/4/6/7/9/0 key, due to the embossed parts. Fortunately one could get used to these and it’s a great thing that there are soft keys too, so we don’t have to keep tapping the display whenever we want to access a submenu.
The back side is not that elegant, it’s rather like puritan. Probably the designers have also felt that the grey rubber surface is not enough for a business model, so they’ve spiced up the camera and it’s LED flash a bit, which is on the left side. It’s interesting that it’s kind of “milk-glass”-like; I’ve liked it. On the opposite side we can see the handsfree speaker and between these two we can see the 3 Mpix camera’s lens and the mirror for making self-portraits. On top of the detachable part there is a great HP logo, while on the bottom there is only a WiFi and a Bluetooth logo.
On top there is only a single a button, which is not used for powering the handset on/off, but for muting it – I still consider such a dedicated key very useful. On the right side of the handset there is the camera’s exposure key.
On the bottom we can see the reset button, a miniUSB connector, the wrist-bands hook and the silo of the stylus. On the left there is a shortcut key, the jog-dial and another OK key – as you can see we won’t have trouble navigating in the menu, no matter how are we keeping the phone in our hand. Still we can ask that where is the 3.5 mm jack output or the memory card slot? The first is missing from the handset, while the latter is unfortunately placed under the battery, so we must turn the phone off in order to change the card, which is not a very good thing.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
