Menu system, software, touch control
I won’t be teasing you any longer, I reveal the great secret: no matter the touchscreen, 6208 Classic cannot be controlled with taps, the pen can be used only for text entry. This information is probably even more shocking than the news that you won the lottery; as for me I’ve been thinking for days what’s the meaning of all this, but I just can’t figure it out. I think the only possible reason is that Chinese marks are easier to write by hand than type, but as soon as I see how complex they are I have to realize that this theory is not quite correct.
So there is a normal S40 interface running on our gadget, which is a positive thing anyway, as it’s a fast, easy to use, mature platform. There is no lack of features; we have everything from active standby to dynamic SMS memory and extra software on 6208 Classic. I would not like to go very much into the details, but let’s see the software side in short.
In the organizer we can see an alarm clock that works even when the handset is turned off, then there is a nice calendar, a to-do list, a notepad, a scientific calculator, a timer, a stopwatch and the inevitable English-Chinese dictionary. In the Applications we can find three games (Golf Tour, Snake III, Sudoku) and lots of non-gaming apps (converter, flickr, typing demo, settings wizard, Opera Mini, QQ, Share on Ovi and world clock). The internal memory is 23 MB large, 10 of which is free by default, as these pre-installed apps take up quite a lot of space. Since we have a 1 GB card we shouldn’t have any problem with that, fortunately applications can use that storage space as well, and this includes even the sound recorder in the multimedia menu.
The only strange thing occurs during typing, as there is a special icon in text entry fields, which shows us that we can use the touchscreen. We just have to tap the field and the text entry window pops up, which works only in handwriting recognition mode. It won’t deal with continuous writing, if we write a whole word it will digitalize only the first letter, if she can deal with it. Probably Nokia has seen as well that the efficiency of the software is pretty far from the magical one hundred percent, so after writing down the letter we are offered lots of alternatives, so we can tell that we didn’t want to type an i, but an exclamation mark/a small l/semicolon. I again have to ask: what is this good for? They could have just used a virtual QWERTY keyboard, that would make things easier and faster. It works like this:
I would like to note that we can of course use the keypad for typing as well, I’ve managed to type about five times faster with it. It’s really shocking why does one have to put a touchscreen foil on the handset for just this feature, it’s a waste.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
