Contact list, messages
Entering the contact list of the F700 is easy but searching a name is complicated. A cursor is flashing on the top of the list, if it is touched a virtual keypad appears which was made like normal phone keypads. Here, the intended characters have to be entered, pipe, and the list appears again with the searched contact. For scrolling, touching the left side of the screen is the faster way, slower scrolling is available on the right side of the screen. It requires high concentration, the Croix can’t make the thing that the HTC Touch (TouchFLO) solved. Plainly the whole problem gets solved, when the phone is slid, in this case, there are gazillions of buttons to avoid giving way to despair but this requires two hands and the user usually walks, travels on bus, stands or does anything else when searches in the contact list so it’s not sure that he has both hands free. Fortunately, rotation is perfect here too, if the contact is chosen horizontally, the display turns back the way that only the structure of the menu changes, the actually chosen contact remains selected on the vertical screen too.
Looking at the specifications, the list can store 1000 contacts. It contains the usual extra fields, phone number, email address, picture, ring tone and notice can be attached to the contact. New contact practically worth to be added in horizontal case, typing is easy, but scrolling the fields is a bit difficult in this case too.
Message handling is the next field where the phone has challenges for the user. In slid case, text input is easy, but if you don’t have both hands free, you get a virtual keypad which looks like the keypad of a normal phone, so the input method is the same as using a typing on phone. The vibration signal really comes in handy, writing is much faster because you know exactly whether you touched accurate or not. It’s slower than using a normal phone, but this solution can be used to.
Naturally MMS support is included, 295KB is the size limit, and the editor interface is simple. The email client can be set up universally, the problem is the scrolling again, it’s easeless going through the set up, because the scrollbar have to be touched carefully for scrolling down, especially when the bar nearly reached the right bottom corner of the display, it’s too close to the back button, I had to try it three times because, clicking this X drops back to the main screen without any further questions. The email client supports authenticated SMTP; the maximal size of the attachments is 300KB.
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