Menu, software
It’s very good that the manufacturer created a pleasant-looking and usable menu system, so those users that are not experts of Pocket PCs can also launch any kind of software they want. It is a big problem, however, that there is no task manager installed, so the X button doesn’t close running programs, it only minimizes them, which results in the memory filling up very quickly. Although it’s very easy to install a free application to resolve this situation (like WkTASK), but I think that it had been better to correct this flaw in the factory.
The menu system can be accessed through the large button in the lower left corner. The buttons near it take us to the dial screen, messaging and Internet Explorer. The Start menu has the usual design; nothing has been changed by LG.
The application with a black background loads immediately, which I was very happy about, as there are several seconds of wait at many other competitors’ devices (e.g. E-TEN). The menu’s structure can be familiar from touchscreen LG phones: there are four icons on the side; each one of them stands for a category. In the first we can find stuff related to phone calls and messaging, the second contains multimedia features. The Games on the bottom doesn’t launch anything for some reason, not even the default Bubble Breaker.
The third tab has office and internet software, which includes the Office family software, the notepad, the to-do list, the calculator, the alarm clock, Internet Explorer, MSN and the application called PSNote. This latter one is a notepad that has a handwriting recognition algorithm that immediately converts text written on the screen to normal text, and it does this in a very efficient manner. After that it only takes a couple of moments to send the written text in SMS or email. On the fourth tab of the menu system we can find everything that’s related to settings and options.
Besides the lack of the task manager, another flaw is that the manufacturer didn’t include any kind of custom virtual keyboard, so we only have the factory default ones. Those can only be used with the stylus, although KS20 would have had a great benefit form enabling text entry with fingers.
That’s all for extra software, so this is no strength of LG – fortunately the user can help this, as opposed to hardware and design flaws. We might call a unique feature that we can enable USB Mass Storage mode in the settings. Enabling it makes KS20 show the memory card’s content as an external drive when connected to the computer – Asus devices have had this feature since a long time ago.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
