O2 XDA Flame - graphically accelarated

On the outside

Knowledge has a price, that’s a fact. At Pocket PCs this usually manifests in two things: on one hand there is a considerable amount of money to be paid for a device with so many features and on the other hand, such handsets are fairly large. The latter is visible on our subject too, as Flame weighs 190 grams and has a size of 74 x 126 x 17.5 mm. Of course not only the features play a role in this, but the 3.6” VGA touchscreen too.

There can be no complaints about picture quality, it is astonishing. Above the TFT display there is the VGA resolution camera used for video calls and the phone’s speaker surrounded by status LEDs. On the left of these we can see an “engraved” O2 logo. The navigation controls are on the bottom; the d-pad in the middle is really small (and thus its use is a bit problematic), the function buttons around it are somewhat larger. There is a backlight for these, they glow in a color equivalent of the call accept/reject buttons’ on the sides, while other buttons are blue.

There is a square pattern on the back, I think it looks cool, but some said that it doesn’t match with other parts of the phone. On top we can see the 2 megapixel autofocus camera, on the bottom, just over the small button used for taking off the back, there is a Windows Mobile logo.

The designers didn’t leave the sides unused either. The upper part is a bit desolate, only the power button is here.

There is much more stuff on the right side: there are the volume controls, the microSD slot, the camera’s exposition button and the reset gap. Just like other parts of the device, these are also of premium quality, the volume controls can be used easily too. There is a small hole near these, this is one of the handsfree speakers.

On the bottom we can find the miniUSB port - microphone – 2.5 mm jack connector trio; they are scary so let’s take a look at the left side of the handset.

Let’s start from the bottom, for a change: there is a shortcut button (Wireless Manager), above that an infrared port, TV output, another shortcut button (voice recorder is the default setting for this), and another speaker, so we have a stereo sound – theoretically.

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