Hirdetés
Software
There are no new features in terms of software if we compare it to Diamond2, but this is no problem, as TouchFLO 3D does a great job. As this is a GUI that replaces the Today screen, we can access all important features without using the Start menu. From left to right we can see a tab displaying missed events, then there is a graphical phonebook, the SMS and e-mail interface, the calendar that launched in Diamond2, web stuff, stock info, the image viewer, music player, the weather forecast and finally we have the settings, but of course we can reorganize these or even disable the parts we don’t use. It’s great that when pushing the screen up we won’t get a lame quick menu like it did on the original Touch Pro, but we still have the TouchFLO interface. The tabs disappear, we can make them appear again by tapping a small button, and they disappear again after we’ve used them. I don’t know what the reason is for this, I think it would be better to have them constantly displayed – it’s probably made this way to conserve screen real estate.
HTC has though of users who will upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 – where there will be no classical Start menu – so they have already made it disappear. By pressing the Start button we get to a customizable quick launch menu, where we can open a list menu (by pressing all programs) that has a great scrolling routine. This might be strange and a bit uncomfortable at first for long-time users, as in case of a long list it might be time-consuming to find the program we want, but since we can place favorite apps to the quick launch menu, this is in fact a better method than the old one. The scrolling is still not as good as the one on iPhone, but it’s more than usable.
We’ll se the default Windows menu in two place: we can access the original control panel through settings and our messenger, Outlook, is the same old one – with the difference that when we’re typing a message we get to see HTC’s new virtual keyboard, which is although much better than the default Windows keyboard, we will probably used it only if we have to type with only one hand, as we have the great QWERTY keyboard. Besides these two parts the whole user interface is uniform and it even looks good, it’s a worthy rival to Apple’s much hyped handsets both in design and usability. Finally we don’t have the feeling of having a patched up Windows device – it might sound funny but it’s great that we don’t even see on HTC’s new models that we’re using Windows Mobile. Of course the reason for this statement of mine is the operating system’s somewhat outdated user interface that is hard to use with a finger, I didn’t refer to any other aspect.
There is no lack of extra software either. We have Adobe reader, a calculator with scientific functions, Google Maps, a Java runtime environment (JBlend), a wireless presentation application (JETCET Presenter 5), an RSS reader and a business card digitizer (WorldCard Mobile).
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