Introduction
In the battle between buttons and touchscreen, currently the first are who are in a better position, but new battleships are arriving in a growing number in the latter army. Samsung, by the way, is a leader in this matter, F480 being the umpteenth device of its kind (F700, F490, Armani), and according to all signs they didn’t give up creating something great. Although the subject of our current review is full of nice ideas, it still can’t solve one of the greatest problem of this kind of devices.
I’m talking about text entry and scrolling. The first was not perfect even in iPhone, while for the latter we get a usable solution only from this American phone, and we still think that this is due to the multi-touch display used by Apple. There are pretenders, for example the splitscreen solution of LG KF600 is quite good, but there are real buttons on that one, in order to help text entry. Let’s also mention the greatest competitor of F480, which is LG KU990. This has also been born under the sign of a very similar concept.
This is quite a difficult problem, as the question of a large display and good usability should be answered at the same time, but the latter usually needs a keyboard. Although if these two are both present on a phone, then we need a device as large as a frying pan. The slider form factor might be a solution to this, but then the phone will be a bit chubby, not mentioning clamshell and rotateable models. F480 trie to live up to the expectations with all kinds of tricks, but there are some physical boundaries that cannot be crossed with this hardware.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
