Hirdetés
Menu
I have rarely seen such a slow booting handset. It can be turned on with the red button. Of course we instantly have a Hellomoto label and then it takes almost a minute until it begins to respond the increasingly angry keypresses of the user. This all is in spite of the fact that there is a Texas Instruments CPU under the hood, having a clock speed of 300 MHz. There is 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB ROM accompanying the processor, and there is 70 MB of free ROM for the user to fill in with anything he’d like to. If this wouldn’t be enough then Z10 accepts SDHC cards of even 32 gigabytes in size, which provides the necessary storage space for quite a long time.
This is where, based on the specs, we’d expect a nice and fine device, but still, it’s hard to explain the general slow speed of the menu system. The operating system is Symbian, but not with the interface we have seen in Nokia, but based on the UIQ 3.2 platform, which has been developed in cooperation with Sony Ericsson, but it doesn’t use a touchscreen. The punch line is that Sony Ericsson didn’t use this version in any of their models, but it might not be a problem as they have only used 208 MHz CPUs, which couldn’t even provide the speed of a sick snail. What UIQ 3.2 has in plus compared to UIQ 3.1 in Z8 is that it supports push email and it has an integrated Instant Messaging client.
The only complaint we might have about the QVGA display is that it’s a bit small; at least it looks as if there would have been room for a larger one. The main menu still has “only” 16 icons, so we must scroll. The system looks very much like the solution used in Sony Ericsson P1i, which is no wonder. The colors can be set with themes too and it is said that most applications developed for UIQ 3.0 will run on Z10 – that is if they don’t need a touchscreen.
My problem with Z8 was that it rebooted many times, locked up or turned off. This is much less frequent with Z10, but it has happened. It managed to lock up during a call that only taking out and reinserting the battery helped. And that’s when I give up. I take my card and rather put it in a simple phone (which in this case was Samsung M310) and call the person back from that.
Still, Z10’s menu is not bad. It’s useful that we can access the contact list and the new message features directly from the standby screen, we can also use the music player, the calendar and the environmental profiles. The slowdown was very powerful when looking at incoming messages, as this happens this way: the screen lights up and a bit later we can hear the sound effect. One would take the phone in his hands, but nothing is visible yet and then a couple of seconds later the SMS is displayed. I press ok for that and then it starts thinking and the message is displayed by gradually drawing the image. It’s no lightning speed, that’s sure.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
