Multimedia
The camera has a resolution of 2 megapixels, it has fixed focus, which is a good hint about E8 not being the photographers’ choice. When taking pictures we have to hold the phone as if we were making a call, as this is ho we get a landscape picture – this is why we might not use the exposure key on the side, although we can take pictures with the phone in our palm as the camera is high enough, so we won’t cover it with our hand. The highest available resolution for pictures is 1600 x 1200 and 144 x 176 pixels for videos. There aren’t many settings, we practically can’t tamper with anything else than resolution and JPEG compression; as a bonus we have a self-timer, image sequencing (8 pictures max) and a couple of effects.
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Image quality is poor: noise level is high, dynamics range barely exists and chromatic aberration is so powerful that I have never seen before at a cell phone. The only positive thing is that we can take quite good pictures in poor lighting conditions (in interior spaces), but the camera is still very weak.
The size of the internal memory is 2 GB, but we can store our music on the memory card too. The music player can be launched from the menu and with the dedicated music keys too, it finds the tracks on the internal memory and the memory card without problems, independently of which folder do we store them in, which is great. We can sort tracks, based on their ID3 tags, by artist, album, genre and composer, we can get a list of all tracks and we can use playlists too. Album covers are displayed, even if in a small size and we can see all important information, which is also great. It can run in the background, it can be embedded in the standby screen where we can access all major functions.
We should be able to seek the tracks with the wheel, but unfortunately the designers have messed up the intervals a bit, we jump thirty seconds in the track even at the slightest move, which is not good at all. Besides this the software part is okay, we can enable shuffle and repeat modes, there is an equalizer (although we can’t create custom presets), bass boost (has three power levels) and 3D stereo effect. Volume can be set in 20 steps, but the problem is that the volume control keys don’t function when the keypad is locked, although it would be quite hard to press them accidentally, so I don’t really understand this. There is no problem with sound quality. As there was no headset I have used a Sennheiser MX50 and the stock iPod headset, I have felt the quality a bit inferior to that of the iPod with both of them, but the difference is so small that it’s possible that it doesn’t even exist. The handsfree speaker, however, is not so great unfortunately. We have an FM radio without any extras, but it works.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
