Menu, basics

This could be a very short article. I could say that only those should read on who have never seen the software of a Sony Ericsson (or those – seen as strange people by others – who like our style), but there are a couple of small extras on the good old menu that have been highly anticipated. Of course this is the latest software edition, the windows are animated, just like the wallpaper, but there is no Media menu we used to see on QVGA models and there is no reflection effect on the bottom of the 12-icon main menu. There are, however, themes, but none of these change the icon set, there is no rotatable menu, so it’s quite simple. What’s the reason? The previous A200 platform has been swapped out to a new one, a version that has been made in cooperation with Sagem, even if they don’t like to advertise it too much. We’ll see that there are tons of small new features in the menu, which have only been present on Sagem phones. These have their pros and cons, we’ll see these in detail. I’ve made a video of the whole thing; you can see the box as well:

What could I say about the phonebook? Well, it’s used to store names. We don’t know exaclt how many contacts can be stored, as the amount is now displayed in percentages (well, this is a new feature, thanks Sagem). This is good, a great positive feature and a bonus point since we’re not limited, after copying 250 entries I have occupied 1% space (and I suppose the software rounds up). The use and the layout is the same as before, we have a tabbed interface displaying a contact’s details. Although this Sony Ericsson offers to copy names from a new SIM card to the phone memory as well, it can display them even if we don’t do this.

I must mention regarding to messaging that the result of the low resolution and the relatively good display size is that readability is good, as the letters are large. From now on there is no storage limit for SMS or MMS messages, as these are stored in the dynamic memory, just like the contacts, and I think it’s high time to tell you the size of this memory: 20 MB. Unfortunately we can’t copy messages or contacts on the 512 MB M2 card that comes with the phone, although I would have given another half bonus point for that.

As soon as I have taken out the memory card and reinserted it I managed to kill W302. It told me that there is no network, it didn’t react to any key (not the any key :D), and it turned off. It didn’t want to turn back on, so before panicking I’ve first taken the battery out, put it back and voila, the phone revived. But this is still worrying for a brand new handset.

A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!