Widgets, menu system, speed
Pixon of course supports the nowadays very popular widgets – I really cannot understand this popularity –, which can be placed on the standby screen. The offer is huge, but since this screen cannot be scrolled, we shouldn’t use more than five-sic of these, as although we can put more there, they will surely overlap each other. The default set includes the following: analog clock, world clock, date display, network name, music player, image browser, calendar, birthday display, profile chooser, games quicklaunch, help, speed dialer with images, missed calls display, mirror, radio, Google, AccuWeather weather forecast, Bluetooth and calculator quicklaunch, notes and two links regarding messages, the first takes us to the message composer, the other to the inbox. I think it’s not worth discussing these in detail, as their functions are quite self-explanatory, I might mention that the missed calls display is completely automatic, so if we miss a call it pops up immediately. The mirror is a funny thing; it just launches the frontal camera, so we can keep looking at ourselves all day long.
We have seen the menu system in a couple of handsets, so I won’t go into many details. It’s Samsung TouchWiz, it works well, it’s easy to use, it’s well though-out, and it’s a bit slow, compared to an iPhone. The main menu has 12 icons, in the submenus we usually have a list view. The whole thing is easy to control with fingers, as we can access the submenus/options through large virtual buttons, not mentioning that we have scrolling as well. The size of the internal memory is 180 MB, 21 MB of this being used by default, so besides the 1 GB memory card we have nearly 160 MB to store data. We should also mention that using an appropriate cable we can display Pixon’s picture on a TV as well.
Text entry is rather comfortable. The default method is the virtual keyboard, which has two types: if we keep the phone vertically we can see a numeric keypad, and if we rotate it 90 degrees we get to see the QWERTY keyboard you can see below. Although the Samsung guys didn’t use too much design, the keyboard is easy to use, and the vibrating feedback after each keypress also helps. Handwriting recognition has been another positive aspect, as nowadays I have only seen such a thing on Windows Mobile – since there’s no PalmOS – and Pixon is much better than WM. We can write on the display and on the blocks you can see on the picture, recognition is not 100% effective, but it can be used – not mentioning that it recognizes even accented letters.
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