Display, menu
Well, the display is not a small one: 3.3: diameter, 240 x 432 pixel resolution. This is more than perfect; a much larger one wouldn’t have fitted the case. There is no problem with visibility either, nowadays the weather turned sunny again, but this didn’t cause problems at all. Brightness can be altered in 5 steps, but the third level is already good enough.
The designers changed the Croix system a little bit. The main screen changed in means that the top part now has only three icons, the menu cannot be accessed from here anymore, but we don’t miss it. The first from the left is the “hotkey” for silent mode; we have to rest our fingers for a long time on this in order to activate it. The central icon pops up the phonebook, while the right one activates the dial screen. If we want to get into the menu, then our task is to touch the blinking blue square in the middle of the screen. In the bottom stripe we can see either the clock, or the calendar; we can change amongst these by pulling our finger over the part and with lots of practice.
We can also access the menu by poking the circle icon between the call handling touchkeys. There is another solution: the hotkey on the right of the phone brings up a cross-shaped graphic, the four stems of this activate different functions, while its center also takes us into the main menu.
The menu itself is made up of 12 icons. A bluish cross is always visible, its point of intersection being always at the point where we poke at with our finger. This is why this system is called Croix (French for cross). The phone repays all touches with a shake, the intensity of which can be calibrated in 5 steps, but there is no use of setting it higher than level three, at maximum setting it shakes the phone too much.
There is development compared to the F700. On one hand it is easier to scroll at places where data or menu items are one under the other. On the other hand the shake-feedback works at all points of the menu; this wasn’t specific for the predecessor. However there are problems too. The display going to standby can be waken up with any lateral button, which is completely ok, locking the phone can also be resolved easily, it is effective and handy.
Operation of the Croix system
Which was disturbing, however, was that answering calls coming in when the phone is locked is only possible by first unlocking the screen, but even than a message window is shown for a few seconds, while nothing can be done, although it would be high time answering the call. If we finally do manage to answer the call, than touch-sensitive display won’t react to anything, which is absolutely normal, thus reducing the risk of accidentally doing some unwanted things with our face for example. Hanging up is possible by pressing the camera button, this reactivates the display, but this takes up enough time to run over the tone in case of accessing a voice mail by chance.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
