Musical functions
U9 has music playback as its primary feature, so software in this category has been changed to something that satisfies current needs. This app handles a lot of audio formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, WMA, iMelody.
Since the package includes the aforementioned 1 GB memory card, we will have enough space for our music – internal memory is 25 MB large, by the way. We can filter tracks by artist, album and author, but we can also look at recently played tracks, or all tracks. The software displays album covers (although in quite small), it can seek and runs in the background if needed – in this situation it is displayed on the standby screen, so we can change tracks for example.
There is both an equalizer and bass boost in U9; the latter can have seven different levels, 4 being the factory default (so we get factory overboosted bass, nice). The equalizer has only default presets; there is no chance of altering it manually.
On the standby screen, external display
The software is incredibly spectacular on the external display, even a simple seeking looks cool, as the timeline is circle-shaped. If we don’t touch the screen, it goes dark after a short time, it can be reactivated by touching the place of touch-sensitive buttons – this might cause some problems if the phone is in a pocket. The supplied headset connects through microUSB, it sounds great, it doesn’t have an asymmetric design and it even looks nice, thus I didn’t feel the urge of changing it to my own headset, though I could have done it, as we have received a microUSB -> 3,5 mm jack adaptor with the phone. If this is still not enough, than we can use a stereo Bluetooth headset too, thanks to A2DP support.
There are, however, two problems with the musical functions. The first is that volume can only be set in 7 steps, which is quite insufficient. The other is the quality of the loudspeaker, even a Nokia 3500 Classic sounds better than this musical U9, which is quite a shame.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
