Menu, software
E8 is a Linux-based phone, but the users won’t see anything of this, as it is a closed system, so the handset is no smartphone. The main menu adapts to the landscape display and the navigation ring, which means that it’s a vertical list. All menu items have an icon, which would look good, but it’s darn slow, so if we step more than one the animation becomes very choppy and it might happen that the phone starts thinking about nothing and it these cases the icon won’t even appear. The wheel works quite lame, I had a feeling that the number of menu points that appear is completely random, but it’s probably related to the speed we move our finger at. It’s visible from the menu labels that it’s a musical phone, let’s see them: Music, Random, Radio, SongID, Multimedia, Connections, Messages, Web access, Office tools, Settings. There is one preset theme, but we can download new ones.
The second menu item is of course shuffle mode, so choosing this launches music playback with random track order. I think it was unnecessary to include a separate menu for SongID, the call log could have been in its place for example, which is shockingly placed in the office tools - well, we really have to be in the office in order to take a look at our missed calls, but seriously… The multimedia includes a feature called media search, which has the same function as the gallery on Nokia phones, so this is the picture browser too. Below this we can find the games, the camera, the video camera and the sound recorder, which can record until there is free memory.
The office tools includes everything that didn’t fit elsewhere, but the name is tricky, as I think neither the previously mentioned call log nor the calendar/alarm clock/world clock/file manager quartet belong here, but this is what we have. Besides these we can find the synchronization, the download manager, the calculator, the task list and the notepad. There are two games on the phone: Sudoku and Tetris. What is missing: stopwatch, countdown timer, unit- and currency converter. This is quite lame in 2008.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
