Exterior
At a first look, Sedna looks like some kind of industrial stuff. It’s extremely huge, weighs 220 grams and has a size of 137.4 x 72.9 x 20.5 mm, so we won’t be carrying it in our shirt’s pocket, that’s sure. Its design is interesting, to say the least, it has some strange shape with unusually placed buttons. Not even the use of materials is targeted at the needs of a conventional used, as the hard, plastic cover is really massive and the display is much more resistant too, than usual – of course this won’t hurt the everyday user either.
On top of its front, under the HTC logo, we can find the speaker, surrounded by two shortcut keys. In the middle we can see the touchscreen display that has a diagonal of 3.5” and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. Basically everything’s all right with quality and we can cope with the size too, which counts as ultra-large nowadays. My personal opinion is, however, that the screen should have VGA resolution, as for example E-TEN puts a 480 x 640 display in almost every device of theirs. On the bottom there are six buttons in an interesting layout, with a 5-way d-pad in the center and a fingerprint-reader below it.
We can observe on the back that the guys at HTC tried to force something stylish on it, but the general impression is something like a Russian lumberjack dressed in ballerina clothes – so it’s not really perfect. The most conspicuous part is the camera with everything that goes with it: large lens, flash, a label with the camera’s specs and then comes the slider for taking off the back (this has a large padlock icon) and the GPS label which hides the connector for the external antenna. There is some rubber in the bottom part too, with a functionless plastic grating below it: the manual says nothing about it. Design flaw?
On the top there is an SD socket protected by a hard cover, which is worth mentioning as it makes sure that our precious card won’t ever fall out. There is another slot of the same kind on the right; above this we can find the power button and the hotkey for the Communication Manager with the camera’s exposure button under it. It’s interesting that all of these bring the device back from standby; I think this is a bug, not a feature.
The stylus slot is on the bottom, the pencil itself is a large, non-telescopic one, which is comfortable to use. The HTC ExtUSB port (miniUSB compatible) is on the same side, along with the microphone and the reset gap. On the left there is the place for fastening the wrist strap, the OK button and the jog-dial.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
