Exterior
Looks good, elegant, cold and low-keyed. I haven’t been alone with these words. The silver-black colors are a great match for the angular shape of J770, metal surrounds the whole handset, it’s cold to the touch and it “stores” every fingerprint. It’s not light either, J770 can really pull your shirt’s pocket, according to the Vodafone website it weighs 68 grams (hahaha), while other sources mention a weight of 98 grams.
There is a 2.1” display on the front, and in this case the Samsung site is the one to write foolishness, as they mention QCIF resolution (which means 176 x 144 pixels), but the real resolution is 176 x 220 pixels. The navigation keys below the screen are made up of two function keys on the sides and a five-way d-pad. In the case of the d-pad the horizontal directions and the middle key turn into playback control keys when listening to music. The only problem with this control is that the middle button takes the user to the WAP from the standby screen, it would be really high time to forget this idiotic feature. My other problem has been that the upper edge of the navigation button is lifted and forms a kind of rim, probably someone has thought that it would be comfortable when sliding the phone open, although no one, but really no one would ever put his or her finger here. But it’s a real annoyance when browsing the menu.
On the left side of J770, below the volume control keys, we can find the music player’s hotkey and the microSD slot, while on the right there is the proprietary Samsung data connector (they could swap this one out too with a standard microUSB) and the camera’s exposure key. The top and bottom are completely empty, while on the metal back we can only see the manufacturer’s logo, but as we open the phone…
…we get to see the numeric keys. The labels, being placed on a single panel, are separated by a grid. These labels are large enough and the white backlight also helps readability.
The camera also appears as we slide the phone open, there is a mirror besides the 2 megapixel module, but there is no flash. Unfortunately the slide won’t open very smoothly and it doesn’t fit its place perfectly, there is about a 3-4 mm of difference. We can push it back completely to its place afterwards, but we’re not used to such a thing from Samsung. As far as we know J770 is one of the first Samsung models where development and manufacturing have both taken place at the Korean manufacturer’s premises in China. It would be a prejudice to say that these little Chinese hands are to blame for this slide, it might happen that only we have been unlucky to have such a piece, but anyway, it’s not worthy of Samsung.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
