Menu
The menu is amazingly fast. The software reacts immediately to keypresses, the 128 x 160 pixel display can barely keep up. This speed is highly impressive, this is not usual at all in this category, and although we’ve already told this at the J800 review, it’s worth to note again that although the menu system didn’t change at all at first sight, but the Samsung uses the new NXP chipset, which seems to be a great one, based on current experience. If further Samsung models will be based on this, it will be hard to beat the Korean manufacturer in speed benchmarks.
We’ve made a short video about the handset while being used, you can see it below. Warning! This is not a high-speed movie!
The menu has nothing new, but we won’t be waiting for redemption in this category. We’ve seen a similar menu layout in M310, but this time the manufacturer committed the error of binding the WAP browser to the center of the navigation button. As a specific of system speed, let’s compare this WAP thingy with previous models: when you’ve pressed the red exit key on an older Samsung, that resulted in a couple seconds of “Please wait” message, while this time we can only see this for just a moment.
Of course the main menu doesn’t have many extras, we have nine icons, and unfortunately the white background cannot be changed. We can set the calendar to be the wallpaper, the quick menu has five elements, the last row is where we can insert our own list. We can’t set much other stuff, the menu is simple, but I’ve been expecting this, since there aren’t many functions. What is a negative thing is that after taking the battery out the phone forgets the time and date, but at least it warns the user immediately after turning it on. It’s interesting that almost all features are accessible even without a SIM card, although I didn’t see this very meaningful in this case, since there is no music player.
The phonebook is very simple, we can store 500 entries on the internal memory, five phone numbers per name, an email address, a birthday, a note, a picture and a ringtone. We can copy contacts, and searching is – what a surprise – very fast. There are no revolutionary functions in messaging, we have SMS and MMS, we shouldn’t expect any more. The maximum supported size for multimedia messages is 100KB. B320 is no big hit from the point of view of memory, we can store 200 SMS messages and 3.5 MB of MMS.
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