Exterior
If we wouldn’t know who the manufacturer is, at first glance we might rather think of it as the successor of Sony Ericsson Z610i, than of U6. As for me, I don’t have anything with that, as I think that Z610 is a nice piece of phone, it’s just interesting. Although a glimpse at the keypad and we can tell that this is a 100% Motorola device.
It really looks like a small pebble when closed; we might even go skimming with it. The front cover, as opposed to the predecessor, is not made of rubber, but of shiny, fingerprint-collector plastic. By the way the handset is available in two colors (black and pink), theoretically the latter being made for ladies, while the other is aimed at men. I still think that no matter it’s black, based on its size it still fits the hand of a woman much better, so I’d rather call the dark one a unisex edition.
The most awesome is the 128 x 160 pixel large OLED display, hiding under the shiny surface. One might not even think that it has such a nice picture, considering its physical size: colors are beautiful, the animations are fast, so it’s all very spectacular. We’ll be mostly using it for music playback, as the bottom part has touch-sensitive music control keys, but it may also come in handy after closing the lid, as it displays time, signal strength and battery level.
The back of the phone is not that impressive. It’s made of soft rubber, which, although it does not give such an impression of quality as the front, is great for holding the phone, weighing 87 grams, firmly in our hand. Fortunately there aren’t many design elements: the Motorola logo and the loudspeaker are both quite small, which is an advantage in the case of the fist one, while it’s not as good for the speaker as it results in poor sound quality.
On the left the volume control keys are placed, along with a function button that behaves differently according to what we are doing. The upper duo controls sound volume when the phone is opened, while the lower one starts the camera (although we cannot expose with it). If the phone is closed, than the situation is different, as pressing one from the pair of buttons, it takes us to the profiles.
The covered microUSB connector is on the bottom, the hotkey of voice calling is on the right.
On the top we can only see the place where we can attach the neckband. Its size tells us that U9 is imagined as a “put it in your neck” phone, something like jewelry. Great…
The mechanics used for opening the phone are really good. After making good use of it we can look at the 2” wide QVGA resolution TFT display, which is also of good quality. The only thing above it is the speaker; there is no secondary camera, as U9 doesn’t support 3G. The reticular keypad is easy to use, the keys have a proper size and as an extra there is a dedicated music button, which launches the media player application – this is really cool, but I don’t understand why can’t we start it when the phone is closed, why is there no such button on the outside? In the top left corner we can see a light sensor which controls the keypad’s backlight’s intensity.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
