Exterior
As you could have seen on the picture on the previous picture the new handset is very small. Its exact size is 93 x 45 x 14 mm and its weight is 110 grams, so it’s quite heavy, mostly compared to its size. There reason for this is of course the materials used, as the Finnish designers were using plenty of metal, the whole back is made of it, but I think there is some used on the front too. The plastic parts are also high-quality, there is no problem with assembly either, we won’t find any joint problems. It’s really astonishing. We can see the blue speaker on top, the camera used for video calls is placed near it, while below them there is the QVGA TFT display with a diagonal of 2.2”: there is no problem with image quality. The main controls are on the bottom, which includes the two softkeys, the call accept/deny keys and the 5-way d-pad. The first ones are a bit small, which might not be too good for those who have small fingers, but the latter one is perfect, it has a brushed surface, a bluish color and a great pressure point.
So the back is made of metal, a nice, shiny type. According to this it’s a real fingerprint-magnet and that’s the least to say. If we touch it dirt sticks to it automatically and it even has a strange color, as if it would be an oil patch, it looks quite ugly. On the bottom of the back side there is a blue stripe, this is the handsfree speaker, while on the top there is the 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera and its LED flash.
There is nothing on the left and the bottom, while on the right there is the charger connector, while on the top there is the peg for taking off the back cover and the covered microUSB connector. This is where we have to plug the headset’s lengthener, thus it’s no big deal that there’s no standard jack output on the phone. Still, the lack of volume control keys is a great fault, it’s very usual not to have these in this price category.
The sliding mechanism looks perfect at first, sliding is smooth, silent and gapless, we might even be happy with it. But we’re not happy, as after sliding the phone open, there is a large (1-2 mm) gap below the navigation controls, as you can see on the picture. No matter the metal case, it is bent when pressing the d-pad and if we keep this part in our hands when closing the phone we firmly scratch the whole numeric keypad. I really don’t know what the guys at Nokia thought to ruin an otherwise great case with such a puny stupidity. It’s really disappointing.
The handset won’t get much larger when opened, as the numeric part is quite small and moreover there’s no empty part under or over it. This is even a bit annoying when pressing the top and bottom rows, but the situation isn’t bad, the keypad is basically fine. The center of mass is at about the center when the phone is opened, so it won’t fall out of our hands when typing.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
