Exterior
Ladies and Gentlemen I can undoubtedly declare that the new Voice Messenger is just beautiful. As for its size, it’s a simple smartphone, it’s 114 x 50 x 13.6 mm large and it weighs 107 grams. The materials used look much better than they are in fact, but this doesn’t affect the attractive design: this HP shines on all sides, it looks simply splendid in sunlight, which colors it blue or silver. We might think that its made of metal with a lacquer finish, but unfortunately this is not true, as Voice Messenger is made of medium quality, fragile-looking plastics. Some might call this “cheap-looking”, but I still think that it’s cool!
On top of the front side there is an HP logo covering the speaker, on it’s left we ca see the status LED. Just a bit below there is the 2.4” QVGA display, which is of course not a touchscreen, due to the operating system’s limitations. Below this there are two touchkeys with the home and back keys under them and the call accept/deny keys are placed on the sides – the last four are not touchkeys, but classical ones. In the center there is a strange thing, which is to replace the d-pad: it can be pressed and follows our finger’s motion. Basically it’s easy to use, as it’s a bit sunk, so it’s much harder to “overscroll”. On the bottom there is the keypad for data entry, which is neither numeric nor QWERTY, we can see two letters on a button, typing is rather easy as the keys are large enough and their pressure point is also fine. The backlight is near-useless, we only get some light in the top row, below that there is just faint sign leading us to the location of the keys.
We can use the back to take a look at us before an important meeting, it’s pretty much like a mirror. It’s another thing if it resists scratches, as the part that can be taken off is an extremely thin piece of plastic, which isn’t even firmly fastened to the case, it wobbles and has a play of about a millimeter. Besides these, there isn’t much interesting left on the back side, we can only see the camera, its flash and the handsfree speaker.
On the top there is only the mute slider, which can be used only with our nail, it’s a bit hard to push it. On the right there is the 2.5 mm jack, the standard microUSB connector and the camera’s shutter button. On the left there is the keypad lock, the volume control keys and the voice commander’s hotkey.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
