Menu, usability
Getting to the menu from the main screen is done through a nice little visual orgasm, as the whole screen turns around, and then the icons fall onscreen from the top and the bottom (12 of these in total). There is another method: the middle button from the three below the screen pops up a quick menu with five functions, the middle icon being the one that takes us to the main menu.
The white background color can be changed to black only in the main menu. The software uses pretty large fonts, so there will be no problems with visibility at all. However there are some issues with moving around in the menu, as where there is a list view we also get a scrollbar, so we should be moving around vertically. Stroking the right side of the display we can move down slowly, and the closer we are to the left side, the faster scrolling gets. This is a great idea in theory, but in practice it didn’t turn out to be perfect, and in an interesting manner because of the too large lines and fonts sometimes the software senses a press instead of a scroll so we might access a feature that we didn’t want to. It’s another thing that in my case this can even be considered fortunate, as I have found some minor things only accidentally.
F480 of course gives small shakes as a feedback for or caring touches, so when there’s no need to scroll then we can get around the menus pretty nice. The other downside of this system is text entry, which I had problems with again. It’s still much slower to type this way, which is due to the fact that longer finger movements are required to touch the keys of the virtual keyboard (thus avoiding unnecessary, accidental touches). We even get slower when typing letters on the same “button”.
During calls of course the touchscreen won’t feel anything, except if we intentionally disable this lock by pressing the center key. Fortunately the call handling keys are still active.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
