Hirdetés
Exterior
Although judging design is still a subjective thing, it’s still sure that I like E8 very, very much. The most important reason for this probably is that the handset has a very unique look, we haven’t really seen anything like this before. Probably this has been the thing that made my friends have very different opinions, but on the whole there were more who have liked the design. Its physical parameters are not very tempting based on the specs (its size is 115 x 53 x 10.6 mm and it weighs exactly 100 grams), but it still fits perfectly in the palm, or to put it this way: it’s a real pleasure to hold it in hand. The great materials used are an important factor in this, the back is made of metal and it’s covered in silky rubber, we have high-quality plastics on the front and the sides so it’s very good. The joints, however, are not very precise, but the real problem is on the back: the detachable part comes off quite easily and even more there is a visible gap over here.
The bottom and top parts are slant, when put on a desk there is an angle of 75 degrees instead of 90. The handset is completely black, but there are all kinds of circuits visible on the front when in sunlight. On the top we can see the speaker disguised as a Motorola logo and the display seems to surround it, but no, it’s a couple of millimeters below. It’s not very big, it has a diagonal of 2”, its resolution is 320 x 240 pixels, but image quality and readability in sunlight is great. We can see the keypad below, which has a couple of surprises. On one hands there is an almost full circle in the top middle part, which is in fact a touch-sensitive ring, just like the iPod TouchWheel. Of course it’s far from being as effective as Apple’s, and Motorola probably knows this as they have also inserted a five-way navigation pad – and they did this right, I’ve been using that. The buttons are placed around the small ring, but the labels are visible only if the backlight is turned on. Even more, these area not separate keys, as the more important ones are labeled with small dots, but otherwise the whole surface is pressure-sensitive – no, it’s not touch-sensitive, we have to press the plastic surface a bit in order to make things work, the phone gives shake feedback for this. This is a rather good solution, I have never mispressed during the test period, which is a big thing. The backlight looks awesome; it’s orange in sunlight, white in darkness, and even more, only those buttons are lit which are currently in use, so for example the numeric keypad remains dark in the menu. There are musical buttons too, which are visible only when we launch the music player and there are three buttons that appear when reviewing pictures. Zooming is evidently the most useful of these.
Two types of keypads – the currently used keys are lit
There is nothing interesting on the back. On top we can see the tiny camera and there is an even smaller label telling us that the handset has a 2 megapixel image sensor. There is a Motorola logo in the center with two icons underneath and on the bottom there is a red stripe which is in fact the handsfree speaker. The microSD slot is near the battery, but unfortunately we have to take the power source out in order to change the card.
On the top we can find the funniest part, the 3.5 mm jack output, which rises like a chimney. Many have said that the phone looks like a flat bottle and the headset’s connector is where you have to drink. I also think that there is some resemblance. By the way the connector is protected by a rubber cover, which keeps falling of, so it’s not really good. In the top left corner we can see the neckband’s hook and the volume control keys and the camera’s exposure key (which we won’t be using at all) below it.
On the bottom there is only an “engraved” ROKR label, on the right there is the microUSB connector and the power button/keypad lock slider. I would like to say it again how much I like these kinds of solutions: I just push the slide and everything’s locked, there’s no menu-asterisk or long-pressed hash mark. I’d like all phones to be like this.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
