Basic functions

It’s a Symbian so there aren’t any surprises regarding the basic features and we won’t be disappointed either, the system performs really well in these things. I have mentioned the themes, we have profiles too, we can even set the phone to pronounce (let’s be righteous: tries to normally pronounce) the caller’s name if it’s on our contact list.

The phonebook has all the features one would expect nowadays. Its capacity is practically unlimited, we can define the number and type of extra information assigned to contacts, there are no limits. This is of course a good reason to copy contacts from the SIM card to the internal memory, although N96 can display contents of both memories. The images attached to contacts are displayed as thumbnails in the phonebook (only if a contact with an image is selected), but in case of a call the photos are displayed fullscreen (yes, on the whole 2.8 inches). This is quite an impressive view.

Messaging is prime quality. Text entry is a bit problematic because of the buttons and although I have been telling of the keypad a couple of paragraphs before, this can be felt only after N95, otherwise typing is absolutely okay. When creating a new message an icon bar automatically appears in the bottom if we decide to attach multimedia content and from there it’s child’s play. Of course we don’t have only SMS and MMS, but there is an email client too, which supports all kinds of authentications and attachments. We can set our signature, mail check interval (it’s great that we can disable it when on roaming), maximum size, so there’s really nothing to complain about.

Volume and sound quality during calls is okay. There’s no distortion, it’s not too soft, it doesn’t echo; handsfree mode is not that good, but there’s no distortion here either. It’s a useful thing (and this is no new feature, but many people have been asking about it so we’ll mention it) that the voice recorder can record the call in progress too.

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