Menu, basic functions

So, until now everything’s rather fine, but – remembering the interior of the last Philips models we have taken a look at – it does matter quite a lot how much does the menu system differ from the usual schemes, did they install a too unique interior or features assembled by Malaysian logics. Fortunately this is not the situation, and although there are some strange things, but on the whole the software is quite okay.

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There is a main menu with nine icons, and although I’m still disgusted by these light graphics on a dark background (maybe there would have been a better chance to read the screen in sunlight if these were inverted), but the guys at Philips won’t confuse anyone who has been used to Nokia handsets for example. Let’s put it forward: there are no themes, we have to get used to this color scheme. The menu, however, has horizontal tabs at many places (this is a smart thing), and even more the handset is surprisingly fast, there are no lags, so they have highly optimized the software to the hardware or they have used a fine CPU.

There are flaws, however. It’s a great thing that there are profiles, it’s also good that we can set screen brightness, but I have been angered by the “meeting” profile having minimal backlight by default, so I had to go to a darker room in order to switch back everything to normal. I have been looking for hours for the call log, but this doesn’t exist, we can’t have look at call durations; neither separately, nor in a unified view. Still the phone displays call time during conversations, but later on we can never have a second look at this information.

The phonebook looks fine at first, as it can store 1000 contacts and we can even attach really tons of information to a contact. This includes: name, cellular number, home number, office number, fax, email, website, image, ringtone, group, county, street, postal code, city, country, note. The software can display SIM and internal memory contents on the same list, but it couldn’t recognize the last 50 entries from the 250 on my SIM card and I couldn’t explain why did this happen.

I have been afraid a bit of messaging as in case of an exotic handset – at least in this country – I usually get all kinds of stupid encodings, key layouts and predictions, but there are no serious problems here. The internal memory can store 300 SMS messages and text entry is surprisingly simple, special characters appear in a table when pressing the * key, just like on an Alcatel. I had no problems setting up MMS, the system has a size limit of 300KB, which is more than enough. There is no email client, but we shouldn’t expect everything for this price.

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