Menu, basic functions

E840’s internal setup is something like G800’s. Of course it’s BlackUI, but it’s still the one that has no theme editor: we can choose a black or a white background. The OK key takes the poor user to WAP immediately (it’s the umpteenth time we are unhappy about this, maybe sometime we’ll have our voice heard); the phone can ring and vibrate at the same time, but there are unfortunately no environmental profiles.

The menu can have an iconic or list view, the default background is the animated one we could have seen many times in Samsung phones: it displays one of the landmarks of the country we’re currently in. This is still a pleasant sight. Because of the touchkeys it’s very hard to access options during a call. This has the effect that pressing the center of the navigation key, or the lateral power button, unlocks the keypad, while closing the button ends the call. It takes some time to get used to it.

The phonebook has the usual features. It can store 1000 contacts; a contact can have many numbers, email address, picture and note attached to it. The contact list shows the content of the SIM card and the internal memory on the same page; names are easy to move around between these two storage places. It’s a nice feature that when entering numbers on the main screen the phone automatically tries to offer an entry from the contact list or the call log.

We won’t have any trouble with messaging either, in case we can use the terrible keypad. Text entry is assisted by T9, while there is a large place for storing SMS messages (max. 1000). MMS and email messages are stored on the internal, dynamic memory. The built-in email client is somewhat severe when treating attachments, as they can have a maximum size of 100 Kb. There is a nifty little wizard for setting up the application.

The list of organizer features includes a calendar with month, week and day views. It can store meeting, anniversary and task notes, 100 of each. The alarm clock is the usual one that can handle multiple time points an works even when the phone is switched off. The world clock has list view, while other apps are the usual: calculator, unit converter, stopwatch, countdown timer and to-do list.

A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!