Menu, basic functions
For five days I have really though that I have a QVGA display in my hands, although this is only a good 176 x 220 pixels large screen. It’s highly readable, brightness can be set in five steps. The wallpaper can be set by us or it can be the Samsung-trademark living world. This makes the display show a symbol of the country we’re in, with the picture changing according to day/night. I can never get bored by seeing the clouds gathering on the screen when signal strength starts dropping and if there’s an event we can see a plane or some fireworks.
The menu system is now made of colored drawings put on a white background, there is no black theme, but we can select list view. The software’s speed is absolutely okay, there are no lags, no matter how hard we start pressing the keys one after the other. I can’t complain about the system’s logic, even those who have never seen a newer Samsung model can get used easily to the menus that open one above the other, but let’s see a short video demonstrating the basic functions:
The phonebook has no surprise, the usually important information can be stored easily. Mobile and landline number, email address, note and ringtone are the fields. L700 can show SIM and phone contacts at the same time, but we should reconfigure the shortcuts of the navigation key, so that we can instantly jump to the contact list when pressing the down key, as by default this launches the browser and this is anyway permanently assigned to the right function key.
Messaging is great, there’s no problem with text entry. The editor lets us type 2295 characters, which means 14 SMS messages, but in this case we should consider MMS. If we attach multimedia content then we create an MMS and pictures larger than 300KB are automatically resized. There is storage capacity for 500 text messages, other stuff use up the internal memory, which means 25 MB of space when empty. We can see the first sign of Vodafone (we had a phone with SIM-lock) at the email account, as the operator’s mailbox is set up by default, but this can be overridden anytime. There is a large G letter in the main menu too, this is for Google, where we can access web search and Gmail, but in the latter case only the browser is launched and we get the cell phone optimized interface of the mail system.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
