Data transfer, battery, conclusion
The new smartphone is not a shining shine in data transferring possibilities either. The GSM-module is quad-band, the fastest standard supported is GPRS, there is no WiFi, but there is Bluetooth, theoretically supporting A2DP. So we can see, that browsing is not blocked only by the display.
The 820 mAh battery is integrated in – or rather glued to – the back cover, which provides 200 hours stand-by or 4 hours of talk time according to the manufacturer – the length of music playback time is unknown. When in my possession, with an employment heavier than usual (1 hours of talk time per day, a lots of text messages and 1-2 hours of music listening), the handset was online for 2 days, which is quite a good performance.
Before the conclusion I would like to shortly note how it was using the Neonode: basically good. I’ve got used to its handling quite fast, after that I was able to access everything quickly; the menu system has a logical construction, although things are a bit overcomplicated at some places. The system itself wasn’t stable during the testing period, it locked up a lot of times, and there were cases when it just simply turned off. The most serious error was when the camera stopped working: it suddenly displayed a message, that it has problems with the driver, after that it didn’t start up for two days, and then it just suddenly started working during music playback. May we be looking at a self-repairing system?
Conclusion: the Neonode N2 is an interesting mobile phone. It is sure that it’s innovative and it’s also sure that it’s tiny but also quite ugly, and to tell the truth it has very few functions. The Windowsübased system is basically just marketing, it doesn’t have to do anything with the Windows Mobile operating system. By the way the manufacturer higly supports the development of the handset, a lots of stuff can be downloaded at the RedNeo forum. In means of multimedia there isn’t so many stuff available, and even that can be thanked to the earphone, since the software is quite weak. It’s not the best for a phone, not even for a multimedia player, we might try to look cool with it, but to tell the truth it’s not perfect even for that. I hope the company will develop the zForce technology, in my opinion there are a lot of unexploited possibilities lying in it. I personally liked this phone because I have never looked anything like that before.
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Translated by Szaszati
The Neonode N2 has been provided by XXL GSM. The handset can be bought at:
Budapest VI. Jókai square 6.
Budapest VI. Teréz boulevard 18.
On-line at www.xxlgsm.hu.
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