Review By: Avi Review Date: 18 Feb 2009
Important
The home screen offers you the chance to pick four contacts to have as you main focus, i.e. youll be able to see what theyre doing social network-wise via an updated RSS feed, and all conversations, tagged photos etc will be shown in a list below each person.
Theres also a touch sensitive physical button in the top right hand corner that allows you access to the media bar, which allows the user the chance to pick the internet, photos or other media whenever they fancy it.
However, when using this for multiple applications, the main problem with handset becomes apparent: the S60 OS. It might have worked for handsets in the past, but is in dire need of an upgrade, especially in the face of the recently released Android among others.
Too many applications slows the handset down to a halt, and theres often a perceptible lag or delay in music playback when switching between applications, which might be acceptable to Nokia stalwarts, but will irk newbies to the Finnish way of life.
Media
However, this device does do one of the things it was born to do well, and thats play music and media. Perhaps lacking the intuition of other rival handsets in music playback, the tunes are crisp and clear through the 3,5mm headphone jack, and are belting through the super-loud stereo speakers (though we beg you to NEVER use this feature in public).
Flicking through photos is... OK, but its through video playback the device excels. Movies are crisp and clear, and the screen is large enough to be considered a viable alternative to an Archos, or day we say it, an iPod touch.
Message
Text entry might be a mundane issue for physically-keyed handsets, but on touchscreens becomes all important.
Youve got four options here: full QWERTY, mini QWERTY (for portrait mode), handwriting recognition and normal keypad.
Working with your fingers in full QWERTY mode is relatively pleasing, and is as accurate as youd need (unless you have big old fingers).
The keypad works as well as physical keys, though the handwriting recognition is a pain to get used to, even if you use the included plectrum for novelty value.
But overall you can get your message across with relative ease, though of course it still doesnt beat actually pressing a button to key in a letter.
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Good: Touch screen,Video .MP4
Bad: Can not support .dat,.flv,.avi files to play
Recommend: Yes
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