Let’s phone and data-communicate
There is room for 1000 names in the phone book. We have the usual offer from extra fields, besides first name, last name and phone number we can store e-mail address, web address, company name, occupation, official and nickname, postal address, user name, birth date and we can also attach photo, sound and video to all these information. As I have already mentioned the PIM memory is the limit for short text messages, as is for the maximum 300 KB size in case of multimedia messages. There is an e-mail client; it can handle authenticated IMAP servers too. The web browser can also be familiar from older Series40 models; basically it can be used well.
The Arte has nothing to be ashamed of in means of data transfer/communication. Although it does not know HSDPA, but it does have 3G support. If lacking coverage we can also surf the net though EDGE or GPRS, since the handset supports these standards too. Unfortunately there is no WiFi, but the Bluetooth 2.0 supports A2DP and the infrared port is also missing from the repertoire. The USB port is microUSB known from the Luna, supposedly this is the future, it didn’t annoy me that I can’t plug my own usual miniUSB cable into the phone, which, by the way, also functions in USB Mass Storage mode.
There were serious problems with the phone when I was making phone calls. I am almost sure that I was facing a unique problem, but it’s really a shame, that I received a faulty phone from such an expensive model – in my opinion the guys over in Finland might be having problems with quality control. Sound quality is basically good, but in 75% of the cases there was a horrible buzzing sound, as if my talking partner was travelling on the underground, I could hardly understand him, and he didn’t hear me at all. There was no logic in the occurrences: sometimes I already heard the sound when dialing and sometimes it appeared only after a few minutes of talking. I managed to improve the situation by using only the GSM network and by turning on the sound clarity option – this way "only" every third-fourth call was disturbed by the problem of major importance.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
