Menu, basic functions
I’ve already mentioned 9@9U lots of times before, as it’s a very similar phone. This is true for the software part as well, as that’s almost the same, besides that 9@9W has a landscape display, so the menu looks a bit different as well. At least the main menu, as it still has 12 icons, but they have a different layout, matching the landscape view. The submenus have a list view. In order to reduce power consumption we have white icons on a black background and unfortunately this cannot be changed. There are some animations implemented as well, but this won’t make us happier when we should be reading something on-screen in bright sunlight, as in this case manual shading is a must. We can change the wallpaper and that’s about all we can customize on the menu.
We can assign any menu item to the four directions of the navi buttons, so quick handling is guaranteed. Otherwise the menu has a logical structure, those who have their first Philips phone won’t be having any problems with usability. One can’t really get lost in it as it’s no high-end model, with thousands of features.
After turning on the phone we’ll be shocked for sure: on one hand the Philips engineers, after lots of experimenting, have managed to find the two most annoying notes to be played as a startup sound. The Nokia tune has at least some harmony – on the other hand the phone will immediately ask us to choose which SIM slot would we want to use. Yes, yes. The handset supports two SIM cards, but not at the same time. When switching between the two cards the handset gets restarted and we will be available on our inactive number only if we have redirected it to the active one. We’ve got back to the times of Nokia 3310 and friends, which had dual-SIM back panels. Of course this way it’s easier to provide a standby time of a month and if we look at the average standby times of the two cards than one has a month, the other has infinite. Anyway, I don’t really know why this handset even exists when almost every Chinese phone can handle two SIM cards at the same time. Let’s not mention quality right now and the double power consumption thanks to the two GSM antennas. I’ve been much happier with a model that works for two weeks but handles both cards. Philips made a serious mistake with this one, even more since they don’t mention this anywhere on the web, so many people could be fooled.
The phonebook can store 500 contacts, has the usual Philips system, we can store lots of information in it. In terms of messaging it also has the usual things: SMS, MMS and email client. Typing is assisted by Philips’ predictive text entry system, which has some exotic languages supported as well.
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