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25 Jun, 2015
Worst smartphone ever.
1 of 1 found this helpful This is the worst touchscreen smartphone I've ever used.
The only positive moment is the one I bought it for -- small form factor. Although, it isn't that small, I used to own smaller one, but it was a bit thicker AND it had a keypad and tiny LCD.
Now, the negative moments, a plenty of. First of all, unresponsive user interface. You want to navigate, you swipe or you touch (like you would regularly do on any modern Android/iPhone) and ... you have to wait. After 0.3-0.5 seconds you get the response for your action. But sometimes, you won't. That is, you select the contact, you press on it to dial, you press the "Call" menu option, you see it being highlighted, but nothing happens. You press the second time - nothing. You get what you wanted on 3rd try.
Touch screen doesn't pick up sliding motions properly, you often have to redo them. It works fine with stylus, though.
Now, another thing with UI - it's convoluted with double confirm dialogues. And I do understand why is that -- because the touchscreen and OS are such a crap that phone receives a lot of false touch events. So devs had nothing to do other than just ask user every time he makes or wants to make a move. Want to dial a contact? Double confirm to dial. Want to open a directory? Don't just press on the dir name, but confirm with dialog you actually want to open it, not to move, delete or whatever.
Thirdly, the call quality. It's not about codec being used -- I could hear remote party over 3G like he's been talking over Skype -- incoming is brilliant. Outgoing - not quite so. People can hear what's going on around me (no surround noise cancellation), but not only that, I sounded robotic with a bit of squeaks inbetween :) Able to connect a headset over BT to the phone, but for 10 seconds only, after which it just "disconnected". It worked fine on any of my other phones.
The 5MP camera... Well, if you'd compare it with the one on iPhone 4... Better, don't compare.
The battery life... It ought to be much better. I still remember my small chineese keypad phone holding a week of standby charge. Oh, those times are gone long ago. You have to charge this one quite often.
The OS is a mix of proprietary stuff with Java. No Android apps, of course.
I didn't use internet on it, so nothing to tell you about usability of web-browser.
No support contact / number in case it gets screwed. No software updates. This phone is a dead end.
Afaik, it used to cost $200 in 2011. I got it for $39 in 2015 and I think I overpaid.