Display, menu
The display kicks ass. It kicks some serious ass. The 240 x 400 pixels large screen is made with the AMOLED technology, it has a view angle of nearly 180 degrees, it’s crystal clear and it’s even a touchscreen. It will sound strange, but it’s the best display in its category, which is really surprising if we know that it’s made by Sagem. Holy cow, as Duke Nukem would say it.
This also means that tapping the screen is important to control the device, and I think this is one of the worst solutions I’ve ever seen. The main screen is very promising, there is a quicklaunch taskbar that can be moved horizontally on the bottom, we can select the features to have displayed here. The main menu with 12 icons also seems nice, the icons are unique, but still self-explanatory and tapping one we get to a submenu, which has a list view.
Here we’ll notice that no matter how hard we keep tapping the display, the software ignores it. Gently stroking the screen up and down will let us scroll to the function we want, after which we tap on the Select label in the bottom left corner, and thus we are finally granted entry to the submenu we want. This is the better case, as sometimes we don’t see a simple Select in the corner, but we have Options and tapping this an even smaller menu pops up, which usually has Validate as its first item, but sometimes it’s not and we can keep on scrolling with the quite method I’ve described before, and only after this can we make our will come true. Messaging is the most problematic part, as it’s just not logical that after selecting an SMS from the list why do we have to ask for options and then confirm our selection just to let us read a message.
On the previous Porsche handset the fingerprint-reader between the call handling keys could be used for navigation, so I’ve been really shocked to notice that this is not available this time. The volume control keys on the side are also completely inactive when moving around the menus. It’s a sad thing that the otherwise fast, nice and logical menu system dies with the usability, which, no matter its advantages, cannot be supported by the handset’s judgment and no other positive aspect can make us forget this flaw.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
