As far as I can tell, there are two problems with this phone.One is that the buttons are too spread out. As you can see in this picture, there are weird horizontal bars between each row of buttons. And because it's a clamshell phone, the buttons don't stick out very far ! It is taking some getting used to as you have to use a smaller surface area of your finger to press each button. I am getting better at it but it doesn't feel as nice as the Nokias.
The other problem is that you can't turn off the shutter sound for the camera! I know they probably did that on purpose so that people couldn't use it voyeuristically, but it just sucks! Even on silent mode it makes a very audible ker-chunk sound. Why punish everyone because of what a minority of people do anyway?
My ratings for this phone:
Menus: 7/10. Nice and colourful and fairly easy to use. Lacking in a few settings though.
Camera: Quality - 9/10. The pictures, especially day shots are very clear.
Shutter Sound - 0/10. Fuck you Sony.
Buttons: 6/10. All buttons but the number keys are fine.
Features: 9/10. This phone has everything - video conferencing, bluetooth, plays mp3s... everything.
Aesthetics: 9/10. Not too big. Almost the same size, when closed, as my old Nokia 8250.
Overview:
Well, I really do like this phone. It's a nice size, it's smooth, the screen is big and bright, the camera is easy to use and transferring files between it and my computer is easy. As I said before, the buttons take some getting used to and the shutter sound is unsilenceable. Apart from that, it's great!
Final score: 8.5/10.
1 comment:
Re the shutter sound : on my phone one could choose to have what was like a sample of a shutter - ie a kind of p-zhhhht sound, or a quickly rising arpeggio type sound. Anyway, I chose the latter because it's ambiguous, AND, get a piece of sticky tape and put it over the speaker hole. It makes it MUCH quieter.
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