Hardware, menu
Let’s begin with the bad news. G900 has the same 208 MHz CPU that P1i had and this hasn’t been anything new even in the phone from a year ago. The RAM is 128 MB large, the exact size previous UIQ models had, so the question is righteous: where is the progress? Nokia is already at 369 MHz, Windows-based stuffs usually have 400 MHz, but there already are handsets with 524 MHz, or even 600 MHz processors.
Yes, the Reader might righteously think: speed is not the best part of G900. Still, there has been some kind of optimization since P1i, as it’s not that slow, but there are features that need 1-2 seconds to be accessed. This is strange as according to JBenchmark the performance is a bit lower than P1i’s. I have been happy though, that running multiple tasks at the same time didn’t stress the phone at all; if there has been enough free memory than everything ran in perfect tranquility – and reliably. But let’s see a video on which I’d like to show how much time does changing a theme take and how fast do messaging and the camera’s software launch. The phone had no other tasks running in the background.
The user interface, however, has been developed very much. Although there is a stylus, we can still find features in G900’s menu that are intended to make navigation by fingers simple and easy. This is primarily due to the large icons and the main screen has also changed a lot. There has already been a scrollbar in the bottom row, but this became larger and all icons have a panel which pops up immediately, so we can access frequently used features much faster. This is the default setting, but we can switch the main screen’s view to business mode; this is when the well-known stripe of smaller icons comes up, along with the good old today menu, in which we can find missed events and calendar entries.
Let’s just stick to the panel version, as this is a well-thought-out system. Besides our favorite numbers, custom menu, messaging and calendar we can also add other panels including the music player, the photos folder, the list of alarms, the list of web bookmarks, the RSS reader, the world clock and the task list too. Of course in this case we have more icons to scroll through in order to reach a specific function, but it’s still great.
The main menu itself also has larger icons; the designers were smart enough to place only 9 icons here. Themes can still be changed, of course along with the icons. The submenus have a list view, but in this case we don’t need the touchscreen anyway, we can solve everything without tapping the screen. So the UIQ system is highly customizable and easy to use in G900. I personally missed only a double-speed processor and environmental profiles, as these aren’t present.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
