Menu, basic functions
Let’s start by saying that the menu is lightning fast. But really. Everything happens at an instant, even images and games load in a second. Such a small handset is so surprising in the current wave of multimedia monsters that it’s a really great experience using it. Of course this has its reasons, there is probably an Infineon chipset inside the phone, which has been used in B320 as well. This is not a feature-filled thingy, for example it doesn’t support 3G, but it’s the best choice for such a model.
The menu has the graphics from the big brothers (L700, S3310) with three themes and the usual structure. I’ve almost filed it as having nothing new, and anyway it doesn’t really look good on this 128 x 160 pixel screen, but the left softkey opens up a custom menu, which is a really smart thing. It’s not that like at other manufacturers where we have a list, but we can see a shadow menu, which has again 12 icons, but we can use any function of the original menu (of course not just the main menu items, that would be useless). I’ve immediately assigned the profile changer to the first position, but an alarm clock or the bookmarks might also come in handy. It would be unnecessary to say in case of a different brand, but it’s important at a Samsung: the OK button won’t open WAP, the phone can ring and vibrate at the same time and we’re not forced to use T9 as soon as we start a new message.
Besides these functions the other parts of the menu are very similar to other Samsung phones. The storage capacity of 1000 contacts with additional information is more than enough in this category. Searching is of course very fast. In terms of messaging we can send and receive SMS and MMS, there is no email client on the phone. I’ve already mentioned the keypad, the situation is not tragic at all, we can get used to the keys quite easily. The handset can store 200 text messages, while MMSs are stored in the shared memory, which is 21 MB large.
The first place where we can see that the resolution is really low is the calendar: on the month view the font size is very small. There is no lack of functions, however; we have graphical week view as well. We can store five types of entries with the necessary information, which should be enough for day-to-day use. The alarm clock can store multiple alarm times, we can set these to repeat, snooze time can be 10 minutes at most. The calculator has basic functions, the world clock has a list view.
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