Compromises are needed everywhere, because none of us is willing to use anything that is terribly annoying. For example, E72, on the one hand, is a regular smartphone with 114,3 x58, 7×10, 4 mm dimensions, and on the other hand, it has a set of keys, which are not very comfortable to use. It is a centimeter wider than ordinary devices, and weight (129 grams) is not allocated to minimalism, but it is comfortable, and does not require much pocket bulge.

2.4-inch display is protected from all adversities by a hard plastic. At first glance, we have quite an ordinary form of a smartphone screen, simply rotated by 90 ° and having 320×240 pixels. However, there is one detail that distinguishes the unit from last year’s E71. This is the backlight brightness, which can be dull and insignificant, and irritatingly bright in the sun providing excellent readability of information. Well, not mentioning the placement because in most cases one can only enjoy a good quality colour reproduction.

Keyboard

There’s not much space on the surface of Nokia E72, because the entire lower part is occupied by a keyboard unit, consisting of an impressive plate soft-keys and buttons of receiving / hanging up calls as well as inscribed on the edges of the rocker of the two additional buttons on each side. A large navigation key pad with an optical joystick is placed in the center, which can be used for deviations to one side or turn off altogether.
But it’s not the optical joystick and a good screen of E72 for which you should buy it. QWERTY-keyboard – is the main charm of this smartphone. For its sake, many are ready to forgive an impressive breadth of the hull, and “strange” screen, and too slight pressure on the flat navigation keys. This keyboard gives the greatest pleasure of novelty, because it is more convenient that E71 and E63 analogues’. Layouts have undergone significant changes, which were very useful for fast typing.

Power

The battery is hidden behind the big steel lid, which is removed without any problems, but not so securely fastened as desired. Actually it is located under the battery capacity of 1500 mA • h, which is enough for a week for a modest operation, or four days of active use of the device. With this wireless module, operating time is reduced to two days of use, but here the activity of exploitation of E72 during this time is impressive.

Interface and communication

Specifications are filtered, which means you can go to the interface. At first glance, everything here is like in E71, the same numbers, the labels are located on top, but it is held considerably neater and friendlier without causing ascetic, which sometimes seems an ordinary vacuum.
But don’t think that E72 is an entertainment for madams and sirs, as animation and drawing icons is one thing, but various add-ons and adjustments to the parameters are always useful in business. And that’s why there is a chip of switching the standby mode from personal to business, where content, design theme, and wallpaper are configured.

Applications and Communication

Among the pre-installed software for the Nokia E72 it is worth mentioning not a pair of logical toys and the ability to install N-gage, but the presence of a full-featured Quick Office 4.5, with which you can view and edit presentations, spreadsheets and with straightforward text formatting, if all this is created in Word 97-2003 formats. Also in the list of applications we should mention Zip utility and Adobe PDF, from which you can view attachments and directories, or to group archives for comfortable sending. Of course, we note dictionary with free downloadable databases, as well as file manager, supporting network drives with a paired device.
In the device there is Bluetooth 2.0 with support for dozens of profiles, among which appear A2DP and EDR. Also the smartphone has a Wi-Fi with support for UPnP, in addition to the basic features IEEE 802.11b / g. Well, the list is closed by wired connection via USB-cable from the PC, where not only an opportunity to work with the PC Sute is available, but also a data transfer to memory card, with speeds up to 4 Mbps.

Camera

Funny, but E72 is one of the most convenient smartphones judging by photography. And no wonder, since 5-megapixel camera with autofocus is much above the surface, but is still delivered to the upper edge. As a result, closing it by finger is simply unrealistic. In addition, we are provided with a sufficiently broad spectrum of all the settings where unless the adjustment aperture is only not enough. The camera can record videos in VGA-resolution, which then can be shown on the PC without any shame.
The picture quality is quite on a good level, in spite of the consequences of the lack of aperture optics.

Outcome

Summarizing, it won’t prevent saying about the Nokia E72 something which for some people may be important. Yes, here is the same earpiece, as in E71, a polyphonic speaker was even a little louder, while maintaining high-quality sound. But still there is a great vibro-motor, which is difficult not to feel even in the pocket of an autumn jacket. So here again everything is excellent, and there is no reason for despondency.
And what is written in general as a result of the review? Yes, it is a great monoblovk with a good keyboard, it deserves the right to be heir to the E71, and it has high-Q assembly. Yes, in the E72 not everything is good, and its price will scare away many people, but on the other hand, it is not just another problematic device with disabilities, but an excellent business tool, only now with a full range of entertainment options.

At first glance, we face the next reincarnation of the immortal clamshell from Samsung. Compared with the previous variations of the past years this is the company’s hardest commitment to retain the classical form, and for this reason we do not see another attempt to cross the impossible and elegantly elongated body with a minimum of sharp color shots. To fans of accurate data it can be proposed to estimate by eye the size of Samsung S5510, constituting 93,8 x 46,7 x17, 7 mm, that does not speak at all about anything, because of the lower shell width decreases to 4 cm smooth, thick and loses in size about another couple millimeters. It weighs 94 grams.

The interface and customization
Why do you need to know technological details, if S5510 attracts just with its design? That’s it that this was unnecessary, and therefore it’s better take a look at the standby mode of the most recent version of the software of the company for phones without touch screen. Yes, the developers have not forgotten about this, and novelty is all the joy of life that appeared in February in some phones and cost much higher.
Thus, the screen has all sorts of icons and indicators above, as well as the notes to the context keys on top. You can choose any wallpaper or just beautiful watches from LivingWorld.
From the main menu, decorations are already less, and in sections they are not altogether. Of course, there is a fallback position to choose one of three themes, as well as a scattering of other interesting details, but that’s no way impressive.

Calls and correspondence

Calls to Samsung implemented simplest way: dial a phone number, or look for it in convenient call list. The latter method is the most trivial, since reduced to see a list of contacts where there is a search by first letters of the name / surname, or an opportunity to review the whole range of groups. If you need to write a new contact, the owner gave access to a functional editor, which initially disclosed only a quarter of the possible fields in physical files for each of the 1000 possible entries.
Since all messages are somewhat simpler, although there is not only the usual SMS, but also advanced MMS, which is to provide an alternative to email, supports opening / adding attachments.

Connection

Modern mobile phone should not have limited communication abilities, and therefore S5510 is equipped with Bluetooth 2.1 with support for all kinds of profiles, from which we are interested in working with wireless headphones, as well as the possibility of transferring files at speed up to 130 Kbps.
If you connect your phone to PC, data transfer will take place at speed of 2-3 Mbps, which is very bad for a relatively unpretentious model.

Entertainment

Usually we are talking about alarm clocks and little-needed reminders in calendar. Yes, of course, in the case of a business machine strict exterior organizer and office content are extremely relevant, but at S5510 on the alarm for five independent detectors should not go.
But the entertainment portion of the device is failed, and not only by the availability of the full range of GoogleMobile services, but thanks to such fine amenities as RSS news for ease of absorption on your way to work / school, as well as editor of pictures and FM-radio. On top of the list are a few demo versions of games, and also affects the very easy to install Java on your phone.

Music

Here you have a player with all sorts of sorting and convenient playback window, where you can not just change the type of visualization, but also to quickly adjust the equalizer. Configure not to edit, so do not be surprised that you can not adjust manually a good sound in the headphones, because you have to use a ready-made presets.

Camera

For high quality photo Samsung is equipped with a brutal camera phone Pixon12, but for those who want to catch an interesting moment, a 3-megapixel camera hero of this review will be enough. Moreover, there are all the attributes of senior models in the face of full-screen viewfinder and a dozen parameters to set, but also a nimble shutter.

Other trifles

If a good quality signal reception is granted, then nice and loud speaker will be to the point quite, as noisy polyphonic speaker sound is well heard in the room, but on the whole volume on the street disappears somewhere. Well, it does not matter, because there is a disruptive vibro-engine of average power.

Conclusion

In the case of Samsung S5510, we see the triumph of simplicity and consistency of external design of the struggle for the heart of the consumer. Of course, the phone was created by a competitor, but there are so many of those nice details from Samsung, that any price for it is not a pity to give.

Sony Ericsson Aino is a musical mobile phone with great screen. It is, really an interesting model and is indeed worth attention.

Design

The Novelty from the Swedish-Japanese joint venture is very voluminous. It hardly fits in the palm, and it is clear that someone may not like it. Well, someone has a small hand. However, if you’re a lumberjack, a master of shovels and sledgehammers, or just a big man, then this is your size. However, everyone has his/her own taste. Want a great phone? Here’s a great phone.
What I personally do not like is the fact that it is not very comfortable to hold, the phone seems somewhat unpretentious, despite the verified design.
By the way, when we first met it we all thought that the device is fully touchscreen, and has no keyboard, seeing the large diagonal display. Half a minute later we could find the keyboard, moving the top half of the shell.

The quality of the materials used does not cause problems – everything is done solidly, reliably, on the reverse side of the cover is relegated stylishly executed corrugated metal insert. I really liked the decision.
Of course, inserts on the ends could also be made of metal, but it would make the device even more slippery, and, of course, will increase its value.
Oh, how nice it was to see in such a multimedia device standard 3.5-mm audio input, but alas … Sony Ericsson took up the old one and put on the left side the firm universal connector. On the right side there is the camera button and control wheel of sound, in the bottom we see the slot for the dynamics of polyphony. In short, everything is as usual.
In general, the device produces a pleasantly strong impression with a high quality and successful combination of materials and, of course, great display.

Display and keypad

It is equipped with a 3-inch display, with non-standard resolution of 240 x 432, high brightness (adjustable by hand), greater viewing angles.
Screen is convenient, comfortable to understand information. It allows you to read e-books, to watch photos and video. I will tell you honestly, Aino is suited for this purpose perfectly. You can watch images on your PC.
Interestingly, when the keypad is locked (the phone is closed) the screen turns into a horizontally oriented one. Simply put the closed device, go with a finger across the screen, thus removing the lock, you’ll see five icons multimedia features and … can chose what you want to run. Finger input is easy, because all the icons are large (even as beautifully drawn) and mistakes simply do not happen. The sensitivity of the screen is what should be. Just great!

Camera
In Aino is installed an 8-megapixel camera with flash. Resolution is impressive; there are users that pay attention to it. As we already know, the camera works only when the phone is closed. Interface is touch, you can take a snapshot by traditionally pressing the shutter button, or simply clicking on the screen by selecting the focus point. After 1.5 seconds the camera “catches” the focus and makes that shot. By the way a very amusing feature. As I already mentioned, it’s very convenient to control – the icons are large and well-painted.

Focusing speed is high, misses almost do not happen. You can assess the quality of images from a merely remark that the matrix starts to make noise even when adequate artificial lighting.

Entertainment

Yes, Aino does not belong to a series of Walkman, but the MP3-player will be enjoyed by all without exception, I am sure for one hundred percent. Music application is tastefully decorated. It’s nice that some of the settings slightly redraw that somehow distinguishes the shell of what we have seen in old models. Also, we note that the scroll bar to display the names of songs is located on top. If you flip phone, then it will turn taking a horizontal position and an image. There is no sacred meaning in this act, if you do not pay attention to animation styles. These are decorating tricks to please the user’s eyes. Most of all I liked the tape, which swirls while playing videos.
When the track comes to an end, it ends on one side of the tape. If anyone remembers, the way it happens in the recorder, it may cause nostalgia. There are more animations with CD, records, flying balloons, etc. This looks more than amusing.

Outcome

Sony Ericsson Aino will interest fans of products of the Swedish-Japanese joint venture. Moreover, everyone wants to hold it in his/her hands and play with touch screen. Price is 20 thousand rubles. For me Aino is a decent device, which has many pluses, at least a rich and complete set of gorgeous screen.

If you are looking for a beautiful cover then you’d better not read any further, because here we have a protected phone model Nokia 3720 classic.

Display and keyboard
Nokia 3720 classic is equipped with a 2.2-inch TFT matrix display, with a resolution of 240×320 pixels. It is capable to display 16 million colors, but it does not give us the opportunity to adjust brightness. All this is a bit strange, as there is often the desire to increase, or vice versa, just reduce slightly the brightness of the screen, this is absolutely legal.
Buttons of Nokia 3720 classic are located directly under the screen, which is not surprising. But their execution is a little more interesting, because on a glossy substrate can fit some big holes, of which serve rubberized buttons navigation and digital blocks, the output providing excellent tactility when dialing a number and the message blindly. And the classic five-way navigation key is just to the point. The letters here are large, and in the darkness have pleasant white backlight, a little stretching in pink hues.

Other information

Nokia 3720 classic is equipped with 220 MHz processor, 64 MB RAM, 24 MB internal memory from which 128 MB are at user’s disposal.
So let’s sum up? As a result, there is a sixth edition of S40 platform, as well as all that we have described in the review of Nokia 6303 in May 2009. Once again we will repeat for the completeness of this review.
So, we have an ordinary program filling of S40, which means integration into the active standby mode or limiting the other two types of themes to full-screen wallpaper in standby mode. In menu this factor provides a complete absence of animated icons, but does not restrict the owner in the themes.

Software and games

Nokia 3720 clearly does not fall under the definition of Multifunctional which can do everything, the standard set of programs in the phone is not impressive. On the other hand, like any other product of the sixth edition, there is a lot of what was in the same Nokia 6500, and it is with these programs, it makes sense to start a description. And here is a similar virtual repository of all things, but in the performance of Nokia. Given the fact that the camera in the phone plays a more entertaining role, the service is much more likely to be demanded for the owner.

Communication and Music

As follows from the positioning of 3720, it doesn’t support third-generation networks, it remains only to mention support for GSM 900/1800/1900.
The phone has a traditional Bluetooth-module with support for dozens of profiles. With headset the device works quite stable, and the data transfer rate is 160 Kbps.
Connecting to a PC is carried out through the USB-connector, to which you can connect a tiny cable and evaluate the speed of read / write information to a memory card, which reaches 1.2 Mbps.
Interface of media player has not undergone any significant changes in comparison with the fifth edition of S40, so to understand the inconvenience of working with the library of tracks, updated within minutes the background is not difficult.
Among the player is worth emphasizing the presence of repeat and random play, the effect of enhanced stereo, and an effective 5-band equalizer, with which it is possible to get good results.

Camera

Of course, choosing protected from the vicissitudes of fate phone, you will hardly look for mirrors. Because the camera in the mobile phone is needed strictly for entertainment, or demonstration of pictures to friends on a tiny screen of the device, or sending pictures via MMS or Bluetooth.
Don’t agree with this approach in the case of 3720? Alas, a 2 megapixel camera has an average quality, albeit with a useless flash / weak flashlight, which is better not to use at night. But here working with the camera is quite convenient, thanks to full-screen viewfinder with all kinds of signatures on the edges, as well as useful features tab on the left soft-key.

Conclusion
For this cost there is almost no alternative for Nokia 3720 classic, without taking into account the equivalent of where something is not enough, especially for fans of “dialers” of the Finnish manufacturer. Perhaps, you shouldn’t buy this device, if it is important to save the usual S40 in the case, which will last at least a year?

Nokia N86 looks so boundless and at the same time fully completed. In a relatively compact package is implemented a full range of opportunities with which N86 is going to attract all the afflicted. By the way, it’s time to take the camera in your hands and appreciate a dense assembly of each of the parts, between which there is the inevitable backlash, but here are the materials and body weighting 150 grams which will not miss the majority of fans of tech toys.

The selection of materials is not mentioned in vein because the front panel is made of glass, and its lining is a metal frame, which unknowingly may be confused with plastic, but in the process all at once will fall into its place. The sensor needs to adjust the brightness of the 2.6-inch screen, occupying all available space of N86. Despite the fact that the screen resolution is 240×320 pixels, the quality of displaying images with a palette of 16.7 million colors is really perfect; these parameters are shown only by smartphones of leading manufacturers. In addition, under the sun readable information from the screen falls only within reasonable limits, leaving the possibility to navigate through the menu and view the text.

Connection

Nokia N86 has a 2.0 with piles of various functions, and allows the remote drives to wander through the file manager, and to listen to music via wireless headphones, and transfer files to another device. If this is not enough, you can have a look at speed of the memory device, connecting a smartphone to a PC via cable, there you will feel the benefit of the speed of writing files to a level of 3-4 Mbps.

And lovers of active study of new spaces on the World Wide Web, will take advantage of Wi-Fi – in the implementation of Nokia. This device module IEEE 802.11 b / g is supported by a convenient search tool – access points, and owners of home wireless networks obviously will like another program that reveals the meaning.

Music

N86 has a traditional for most recently launched smartphones music player. Exactly the same functions: library, sorted by artist, album, genres, playlists, and other trifles, as well as the opportunity to establish the appropriate album cover. Then it can be seen in a simple playback window, with a minimum of frills, and with good ergonomics. If standard functions are not enough, you can change the type of repetition, and to switch on a random sequence of songs to choose from two sound effects, or go to the most effective way to adjust frequency response and 8-band equalizer with unlimited add-ins.

Camera

It is not surprising that the flagship camera phone with 8 MP is equipped with the most functional interface for maximum ease to process of shooting. At first glance, we face the familiar viewfinder with a scattering of icons and sidebar of any configuration tools, but here there is only a fraction of the available points, whereas others may be added in a separate setup menu bar, or vice versa, to clean it from the surplus. But before you find out for yourselves the most relevant setting in shooting mode, pay attention to the possibility of adjusting sensitivity, the use of scenes, adjust white balance and exposure compensation, as well as other, less visible parts. Already in a separate tab settings, you can change the image resolution, set the sound of the mechanical shutter and change the memory to store images, switch on the additional function Geonotes and trimming other details related to the work of digital zoom. In addition, if there is a desire to record video, then you can change the aspect ratio between 640×480 and 320×240 pixels.

Of course, the final score of examples of images is the privilege of readers, but in any case, a couple of words to say about the camera N86 will not be useless. First, wide-angle optics with a maximum resolution of 3264×2448 pixels gives to images good result in greenhouse weather conditions. If lighting can be called nothing more than tolerable, a tiny optics is clearly losing its way, and a small aperture ratio does not correspond to the use of only a single LED flash. But once again, this phone is equipped with a 5 Mp camera, so that among the devices there is almost no competition.

Conclusion

In Nokia N86 you can find everything for smartphones and the camera here is rather good, but not the best on the market.

The central control buttons are traditionally located under the display and are made from a metal pleasant to the touch. The buttons are balanced with a little aggressive design and are responsible not only for the reception or the abolition of call, but even for charging and job-specific functions of the new operating system – call (or cancel) the Quick Launch toolbar utilities and applications.

It has all in all five buttons – first, the smallest, breaks the symmetry and extends slightly between the two buttons in the right side of the device.

This block of the cursor is surrounded by a thin chrome ring. In the center there is a confirmation button “Ok”. If this button is made convex, then the ring itself controls for greater convenience concave inward. Indeed, the buttons at the Samsung I7500 can be clicked blindly, random errors are eliminated. In addition, each time you feel very clear and confident, which is usually characteristic only with expensive machines.

Filling and Communications

The novelty is built on a Qualcomm MSM 7200A CPU platform at a frequency of 528 MHz. Nowadays this is one of the most powerful processors, which is convenient to work with absolutely any application. RAM on board is only 128 MB, but the device has a built-in flash 8 GB drive, in which you can install programs, store cards to work with navigation, etc.

Unfortunately, we can only subjectively evaluate the performance of Samsung I7500 – at the speed of those or other programs, because test packages for Android are extremely difficult to find. But dealing with Windows Mobile – communicators on Qualcomm MSM 7200A platform – we can say that such a powerful device will be quite suitable for small mobile activities, as well as for games and multimedia tasks – such as watching movies with high quality.

Developers paid particular attention to the fact that the Android OS is designed for those users who spend a significant part of their time in the network. Here they can (according to the developers) communicate, store personal data, work and relax.

Samsung I7500 supports module GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) as well as new networks of third-generation UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA (900/1700/2100 MHz. The presence of Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi is very important, because in the big cities there is Wi-Fi in many locations.

Display

The novelty is equipped with 3.2-inch display with HVGA resolution (320 x 480 pixels), established in AMOLED-technology. This is a very bright display with live (literally) images and natural color. Granularity is not visible on the display, and viewing angles can be described as the highest. Unfortunately the display fades in the sun so that reading at least some information is not possible. In general we can say that this is one of the most suitable displays for viewing mobile video and photo.

Camera

Samsung I7500 is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. Photos from this camera are obtained with a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels.

But despite the large number of megapixels and a solid value of the smartphone, the quality of the images does not withstand serious criticism. Even when shooting in bright sunny weather in the photos it is easy to see a number of significant shortcomings, which should include low for such high-resolution detail and a strong distortion of colors.

Battery power and software

Samsung I7500 boasts with a fairly capacious battery (1500 mA ∙ h). With an average daily load (20 minutes of calls a day, work with address book and the Internet) without recharging the device works almost three days. Therefore, in order not to remain without communication in the morning on the third day of operation, it is better to charge the device in the evening.

Conclusions

If we talk about hardware of Samsung I7500, then we can say that this is a classic business-genre: high-quality and expensive shell, productive filling, the full range of communications, a convenient multitouch-control. There is practically nothing to fault – the device is placed on a high level. If it disappoints someone, it is only the most ardent opponents of the fashionable gloss and glitter, which after five minutes of work without gloves can easily turn the apparatus into the “criminal’s dream”.

Strange things take place in the kingdom of Sony Ericsson. Having developed a good platform, the company washes everything on its way in search of gold nuggets. If you want to buy an inexpensive, but functional Sony Ericsson of clamshell format, you will inevitably find yourself in the fork of choice – W710i or Z710i? Let’s discuss everything together.

Design
The first thing that the manufacturer has changed, separating device into “music” and “normal” is a color solution. This is perhaps the weakest point of Z710i. Walkman was painted in the standard for the brand colors: gray, white and orange. Version Z tries to look stern, but without wearing expensive “clothes”.
When you look at Sony Ericsson Z710i, you want to compare it with a luxury Korean car, especially for the domestic market. Yes, they are made good, sometimes even cute, but in the background of the Europeans they seem to be a rattle. In other words Z710i was born as a Walkman, and plastic surgery wasn’t very successful. If we consider Z version separately from W, the image becomes less dark, but it is not still colorful to call Z710i a beautiful phone. It is difficult even to say that the model is not to the point: antenna, chrome, blue backlighting of the keyboard, or all together.
The hallmark antenna-arc in Sony Ericsson Z710i looks absolutely ridiculous. Imagine Maybach 62 with spoiler “dream watermelon Baron”, and you will feel the comic structure.
You will get used to design features, but I don’t think that it will be interesting for you to get used to the screaming colors. How I love the orange color, however, it is very eccentric for everyday devices such as mobile phone. But perhaps this is a matter of taste.

Display
Almost all the rest, the model Z and W are similar to each other that will not prevent us through this maze. External displays are identical, both phones have 1.5 inches (128×128 pixels), which look very solid, especially considering the amount of shell – 88×48x24, 5mm.
Small screen and monochrome models are distinguished by the fact that in Z series supports 4 shades of gray, and W has the same, but with an orange backlight.
The internal display does not produce such a favorable impression as the front one; its dimensions are quite standard – 1.9 inch (176×220 pixels). The TFT-display shows up to 262 thousand colors.
Display has ideal contrast and sharp, with excellent viewing angles. The quality of the screen is comparable with the older models of the company, and in their price range if not given something supernatural, then, at least, nothing inferior to the best representatives of the market.

Keyboard
On other side of the external display there are keys to work with MP3-player in the closed position. Actually the huge display is enough to work with the player. The left side is a place for keys which activate the camera (in the closed position it does not work) and paired “rocker” to adjust the volume.
When the phone is closed, the “minus” shows planned for the current affairs events, and if you click the plus sign, then the important information is displayed by phone: profile, your contacts, and battery power in percentage ( convenient and accurate).
On the right end there are keys which are responsible for locking the phone when it is closed.
With characteristic click, opening the phone, we’ll see buttons – big and small. All of them separately or together are already familiar.
Standard handsets there, took their place, two soft keys, an excellent job with their roles. Below there is a key “return” and “C”. The entire keyboard is made in typical Sony Ericsson style. And only navigational key somehow gets out of the context, W710i, definitely looks more organic. Numeric keys are medium in size, but due to the division into three blocks and a clear course to work with text, or simply dial the number comfortably.

MP3-player
With all the similarities and differences, consumers are interested in one thing – music features. Engineers went to indirect ploys that artificially divided the model. So in Z710i there is no profile A2DP, which puts an end to stereo Bluetooth-headsets.
Thus, the player is simplified, but not fatal.
Yes, a little about the FM-radio. With it we understand what praise for the quality of reception and ease of use is.
The main difference will be the headset. In W710i there is a stereo headset HPM-65, while Z710i has only HPM-60. During the test, I stepped on the Headset HPM-70, which fell out from somebody’s pocket, as the number of citizens in a narrow street, I did my best to return it to its rightful owner but I couldn’t. Since both models have a standard connector Fast Port so we tested with the headset of Z710i.
The output will not be comforting for the Walkman, with a good headset Z710i is not inferior to his brother in terms of musical sound and plays a couple of specific functions.

Multimedia
In this regard, telephones Z and W differ only by a lack of the first section of Fitness and all that is associated with it. Otherwise, as you know, there are no changes. Both phones support EDGE, Bluetooth (2.0, EDR, but without A2DP in Z version), Infrared, Java, themes, radio, powerful organizer and other functions of a modern phone. Both devices also have the support of Memory Stick Micro (M2) card.
Here lies the second major difference in W710i it has only 64MB. Hot-swappable memory card is not provided; it is implemented in the “warm” form. When changing the memory card you have to remove the battery cover.
Internal memory is 10 MB. As before, the device provides a convenient work with files of phone card, or simultaneously with all together.
Another distinctive feature of Sony Ericsson phones has become a function of multitasking. Player, games, calculator – all these and many other applications can run together.
Organizer and work with contacts are made on a solid top five.

Camera
Cameras in phones differ only in the presence of the mirror at Z version. All other features are standard for phones of this class. CMOS, 2 megapixel, autofocus and the lack of an acceptable quality of images, 2.5-fold-digital zoom. Maximum resolution of the image is 1600×1200 pixels, the average size photo is about 400 Kb. It has standard settings like white balance, and a few simple effects.

Video can be recorded in high quality and for MMS which means the resolution at 176×144 and 128×96 pixels, respectively.

Conclusion
As you can see, the differences between W710i and Z710i are cosmetic, just for a marketing purpose. Today the difference between a Walkman and Z is about 2000 rubles. For this money you can still easily buy a 512MB memory card and a good headset like HPM-70. This is in case you need something not orange, but the extent of solid music phone. Our sample even though it was an engineering one, worked very steadily.
710i is equipped with a Li-Pol battery with capacity of 900 mAh that’s just supports the work of up to 3 days in the active mode without problems, but if you choose the mode with disabled GPRS-module, then up to 5 days.
As a result, we have two absolutely equivalent apparatus. Choose with eyes, most of the major differences can be easily compensated.

Samsung E790 is designed by two factors: a traditional for Samsung desire to create more flat, easy to carry and use phones, and shell and mirror elementsborrowed from other devices. It should be noted that the hybrid rather blends into the overall concept shell of Samsung.
This phone will surely be in high demand, primarily because of its universality: the middle class and outright unisex appeal will attract buyers from several adjacent segments of the market.

Shell
So, in front of us is a brilliant “shell” of Samsung E790, which hides a black pearl. This phone is available in two colors – neutral silver, which is decorated with bezel top panel and a removable back cover, and black, which accounted for the lower half of the chassis, all interior trim phone, as well as external mirror lining.
The mirror is almost opaque, resulting in use for external display monochrome OLED-matrix without background illumination. To enhance the mirror effect for the panel is used shiny plastic, which, moreover, is not only sufficiently resistant to mechanical damage (let’s say, if you use the phone only for its intended purpose, the scratches and worn spots on the lid will not appear soon), but also easily clean the inevitable fingerprints.
For the lower half of the shell is used dense, gritty, as though slightly rubberized. Thanks to it, holding this phone is not only convenient but also pleasant. From the same material are made, both plugs (headphone / charger and a removable memory card).

Control
First you may think that Samsung E790 is equipped with a sensory keyboard, but it turns out that all the symbols are located on a single plane (there is no separate buttons) that allows the manufacturer to save a minimum thickness of the shell. For ease of use the keyboard is supplied with four horizontal serifs – under each of row of buttons. In addition, the boundary between the alphanumeric and navigation of the keyboard (they are made from different kinds of plastic, which is very pleasant to touch and has a calm color) is clearly distinguished. Yes, and four-position navigation button is made of a bare metal disk without any switches or at least hints at the sectors.
At the ends of the shell there are volume control and voice recorder buttons. Although the keys are sufficiently tight, the probability of accidental clicks is not excluded.

Displays
External display of E790 has already been mentioned – it is made based on OLED-matrix with resolution 80×64 pixels and 16 gradations of brightness. In standby mode, it is turned off; it shows the number of an incoming call. You can change the settings so that you can have on it standard information on the status of the phone.
Internal display uses familiar TFT-matrix with resolution of 220×176 pixels (262 000 colors). Like previous models, E790 demonstrates low grain and good sharpness, both in static mode, and when displaying dynamic graphics, including videos. To be able to personalize the graphical user interface provides the possibility of using interchangeable skins, but in the firmware of the phone are included only two – contrasting black and white.

Camera
E790 is equipped with a 2 MP camera, which allows it to take pictures with a resolution up to 1600×1200 pixels. The most successful are objects shot at a short distance. But for landscape photographs there is often a noticeable grain.
All camera control rendered on the navigation keys – first finger instinctively tries to incorporate its side button, but there lies a small trick – the key should be kept for three seconds. With the lid closed self-portrait you do not succeed. At least in our test sample, the camera in this mode, showed them on an external display, but could not make a shot. Most likely, the commercial version of the phone will have this opportunity.
But the camera control interface is very convenient, especially the 11-step zoom, allowing very smoothly zoom in / remove objects, but let us not forget that quality lowers when zooming.
Video is recorded in a single resolution – 176×144 pixels about 128 kb / s (15 frames per second).
The memory of the phone can be expanded with the help of microSD cards.

Menu
To the standard for Samsung graphical menu “3×3″ stands out only recently emerged icon “Google”. Yes, instead of the normal section of the browser now the user can be connected directly to the services of the online service provider – search the web, personal mailbox, personal page, etc. As shown by tests, Samsung deals with Google servers fast and stable. In order to use the mobile Internet you can choose the menu “browser”, hidden somewhere deep in the section “Applications”.
Otherwise, there is nothing new in the organization of the menu of E790. As before, Samsung does not allow us to create sound profiles to switch circuits warning in different conditions – just a quick transition to the “silent” mode using the key “#”.

Software
Phonebook can store up to thousands contacts with five phone numbers. You can assign a photo and ringtones. Calendar supports the minimal functionality of the organizer.

E790 is rich in entertainment programs. First, the phone has MP3-player, which is rather good, but, the fact that E790 supports connectivity via Bluetooth wireless stereo headphones, the phone turns into a full-fledged portable player.
80 MB internal memory plus support for removable memory cards (microSD) allows you to carry a virtually unlimited amount of music. The only problem is the battery, which is in active mode, lasts only a day.
In addition to the player in the phone memory are loaded about a dozen games, but, alas, most of them are demo versions, which require payment for a short time.

Conclusion
Of course, Samsung made a good product. Sleek, stylish, and inexpensive device will surely attract the attention though it won’t become a bestseller, it is a very successful one.
This model can be recommended to all those who need a reasonably good functional mobile phone at a reasonable price. This phone is a nice gift for girls, because its exterior very attractive.

The popular RAZR line design from Motorola is continued in the form of a new model RAZR V6 Maxx. Even after the official announcement fans of “razors” start gnawing elbows because of disappointment. But in any case, this device deserves to be studied in detail.

Design

What can I say about the design of new RARZ? A stylish thing! Of course, Maxx resembles its predecessors. The design of the camera was slightly changed, the edges have become more tapered, lighting of the front mirror panel; touch buttons for player control.

As expected, the “mirror” panel is covered with fingerprints, and by the end of the day of working with Motorola V6 Maxx should be subjected to general cleaning. Well, although the entire body is made of soft touch plastic, “dirt” is badly visible on it.

There is a button to activate the camera, voice recorder and the volume control on the shell. I was pleasantly surprised by the presence of mini USB connector with a tiny LED which flashes while charging the phone, including charging from the PC.

The speaker is placed on the front side of the cover, so you must be aware that the words of interlocutor will hear not only the owner of the phone, but also people around him/her. So be alert, do not talk in crowded places!

Back cover is made of thin aluminum. Slots for SIM and microSD cards are near (under lid).

Slot of the polyphonic speaker is located on the back of the lower end. In your pocket, you will hear a resounding polyphony slightly worse, but here comes to the aid a medium-strength vibration.

Due rough plastic RAZR V6 Maxx lies in your hand like a glove, even though its decent width.

The keyboard, display and menu

The novelty has a usual metal keypad. From model to model, the manufacturer slightly changes the shape, but the usability of does not change from this. Here the keyboard of V6 deserves very high marks for excellent ergonomics.

During the test, there was not a single mistake while dialing. Large symbols, smooth light-blue lights do their job – V6 has one of the most convenient and stylish keyboards.

The external TFT-matrix display shows 65 thousand colors; it is resistant to sunlight. The image is really good, and even in a fine day the caller’s number will not remain a secret. In standby mode display “sleeps” displaying the current time.

The main screen is already installed in the earlier models, and therefore familiar to lovers of “scooters”: TFT-matrix, 240×320 pixels, 260 thousand colors.

Work with this phone leaves the best impression. For example, decent viewing angles allow you play in public transport or write SMSs.

Both screens have the small grain and due to this the image sharpness does not amaze imagination of course, but definitely it gladdens the eye.

Whether it is a video or a text viewing – both displays are doing well.

Menu needs no introduction, it has just migrated (and many others) from the earlier models.

Camera and Player

This mobile phone is equipped with a 2-megapixel camera with LED backlight. The quality of images you can assess yourselves, but I will say that the speed of camera pleases, and does not reflect for a few seconds before you make a shot.

The flash is rather powerful and it can help you shoot in the dark. The camera incorporates the touch of a button on the face and for a few seconds on the machine takes the white balance, however, this can be done manually. The camera settings must be enough for most users. You can take a photo with your beloved one, using a timer for 5 or 10 seconds.

As we know, the player can start by clicking on the external touch button for unlocking the beginning of the side button. Without revealing the receiver you can go through of the list of all songs, songs of individual artists, albums.

The sound quality can be assessed as “above average”, the volume is high, and for every popular genre it is enough even on a noisy street. The days have passed when the MP3-files with bits above 192 kB / s are not readable, so V6 copes with any variable bit rate.

Notebook and other functions

By tradition, the capacity of the notebook in the phone is specified in the mythical percentage and I hope that someday they will be replaced by the usual numbers. When you want to enter a new contact, there is no need to fill in all fields, you can only write the number and the name of the subscriber.

At your disposal are 12 fields, including postal address, a field for birthday, e-mail, mail, URL-address, etc.

One list shows the contacts in the memory of the phone and the other one in the memory of SIM-card, but in order to see the number, you need to open the contact. There is an uncomplicated filtration system, which is useful for those who have a large base of contacts, as it is always possible to organize SMS-mailing of 25 subscribers.

There are five alarms and you need to give them names.

This calculator is only suitable for simple arithmetic operations, the calendar is well drawn, clear and easy to use, and developers could not do without a sense of humor – an event called the “anniversary” is marked with an icon depicting the glasses.

The so-called voice comment can have duration of not more than three minutes, which to someone may seem inadequate.

Applications

If you are asked by a stewardess on the plane to turn off your mobile, then V6 can be switched “in plane”, in which radio part is disabled. So you can listen to the player on your way to Turkey.

Data transfer rate via Bluetooth is 55-58 kB / s, which is not bad. With the most convenient to PC connection happens on USB, miniUSB good fits at the end and is carefully covered with a flap.

When connecting to the PC microSD card, it becomes visible as a removable drive. Unfortunately, up to 60 MB of internal memory is not distributed and it is visible from a PC via Bluetooth File Transfer Service.

It’s nice that the V6 Maxx is charged from the USB (somewhere over 1,5 hours). Charging progress is reported by a tiny LED near microSD-slot. When it goes off – charging is over.

Battery life of V6 is not a record, and varies in area from 2,5 to 3 days with an average activity of the owner. This means that you should not be very talkative (10-15 minutes per day), send few SMS, makes 5-6 photos without flash, send some pictures via BT.

Speaker volume is high, and you can easily talk, even in very noisy streets.

Conclusion

We passed some months with Motorola RAZR V6 Maxx, I was pleased and even fell in love with this mobile phone, mainly for its stylish design. The functional Maxx can not compete with a smartphone S60, but, frankly, they have a different target market. This mobile phone has everything we need: a player, a calendar, a good notebook, Java support (mobile “ICQ” worked), a decent camera.

It is interesting what will Motorola from RAZR-line offer in the near future.

Introduced in 2005, Sony Ericsson W800i was greeted by critics and consumers. Key factors for success were few, but all of them were verified to the last detail. It was the first phone with a legacy of the famous players Sony from no less famous Walkman brand with all the ensuing consequences. In fact, the phone W800 was really a serious music player. It shows today’s situation in the market, new F300 from Samsung, Nokia 3250 or 5700 XpressMusic. To grow on megapixels 2 million cell phone makers have taken a time out. Secondly, W800i has serious functional content.

Design

Certainly, now thin phones are fashionable, important and sometimes even very practical. However, the overwhelming number of slim-devices is extremely inconvenient to use. In pursuit of millimeters manufacturer forgets about ergonomics, forcing the user to break the nails on the keyboard and when working with menus to twist his/her fingers in the untold patterns.
Fortunately, this fate to a greater extent bypasses Sony Ericsson W880i. Its dimensions are 103×47x9, 4 mm and weight is 71 grams. Thus, the device is long enough, but due to its rectangular shape it has stunning design.

Thickness, or rather its absence, and light weight make it possible to carry the phone anywhere. Whether it is a breast pocket of your shirt or the pocket of tight jeans, W880i looks good from everywhere, more precisely, in jeans, it is imperceptible.

The front part of Sony Ericsson W880i is made of stainless steel, and can be in silver (Steel Silver), and black (Flame Black) colors. In the first version the rear face of rubberized plastic is matte black, while the second one is orange. Both the colors and the presence of metal among the components add to an already excellent design of W800i a fraction of sophistication. Moreover, it is worth noting the excellent build quality of this phone.

Keyboard

When dealing with the keyboard of Sony Ericsson W880i it is possible not to feel discomfort.

But there is an unambiguous claim to the navigation key. It is too small.

And if girls with nails of medium length speak positively about the numeric keypad, than they will scold the navigation. So if you prefer long nails, you should think about shortening them.

On the right side there is a key to access the camera (horizontal mode).

At the top there is a small multi-purpose “rocker” (or even a slider).

With its help you can get into the menu of the phone, adjust the sound volume, or play around with the scale of the photographs. Access key to the player Walkman 2.0 is located on the left end.

By tradition, the Sony Ericsson phones are not usual green and red phones, and their functions are performed by two context keys. Beneath them there is a button fast access to the Internet browser and “My Menu”. Below that are key “return” and “C”.

So we glad to note that the keyboard of W880i is somewhat unusual, but it is viable.

Display and menus

Screen of W880i is rather narrow, but it has dimensions of 1.8 inches, supports QVGA-resolution (240×320 pixels) and displays up to 262 thousand colors. The display, of course, belongs to the premium class – high brightness, excellent clarity, rich colors. Due to its elongated shape, the upper line with the level of reception, battery indication, hours and other information icons are always active when you move the menu (if you have the theme Walkman), unconditional and very significant advantage.

Simple and intuitive menu of W880i consists of 12 icons, and subsections in a tree form.

However, changing the theme to the standard Walkman on “Bits of the City” you can get a stylish black and red menu with icons, arrayed in a row. These moves through the main menu will be accompanied by a mild vibration.

To master the organs and functions of control of W880i can even unprepared person. Anyone who has ever spoken on Sony Ericsson phones over the past three years, the process of learning and adapting to the new product will take a couple of minutes.

Multimedia

Traditionally, the older phones of the Walkman series inherit a full set of features and capabilities of their business counterparts. So the user of W880i gets 16 MB of internal memory, support for memory Memory Stick Micro (1 GB card included) card, Bluetooth with support for A2DP protocol (wireless stereo headphones), convenient and functional web browser Net-Front, Java , support for USB and much more.
Well if living without ICQ to you means not to exist, then go to the menu “Applications” and run powerful client which is able to function (like other Java-based applications) in the background.

The phone works in three GSM and UMTS 2100. This means support for video streaming and video calls. For the latter there is a small camera on the front panel.
In general W880i is a modern phone with classically-considered trifles. Does it have tuned Bluetooth? Does it easily work with uploaded files? Does it have functional organizer? Can it work in Flight Mode? All these questions can affirmatively be answered with the abbreviation of five characters – W880i.

Walkman 2.0 is stuffing, let’s consider hardware. Headset connector (HPM-75 included) is located at the left bottom.

This is quite inconvenient, since the plug is not small, so it still goes on thick wire, which is not particularly flexible. The most reasonable accommodation would be a 3,5 mm input on the top of the phone. Headset HPM-75 has decent quality and should satisfy most of the audience. We have to test headphones Sennheiser CX 300, in order to feel all inside the player. Fortunately HPM-75 is a structure of the adapter and headphones, so that the 3,5 mm input is available, albeit not at the phone.

To start the music application you can use the little orange button or through the menu.

At the start screen “My Music” can sort tracks by artists, albums, play-list or simply the list of tracks.

Play-lists can and should (because 1 GB is about 250 songs in good quality, very easy to get confused) be created directly on the phone.

In addition, the player has a standard set of visualization (animation, or album cover), play mode “in a random order”, repetition, and changing colors of the application.

There is also an equalizer. Unfortunately, it was a simpleton, from the available preset modes you can choose – Bass, Mega Bass, voice, lifting high frequencies.

In addition to these four settings, it is a possible and a manual calibration. Player responded only to the most understated or overstated frequency. And the description on the website Mega Bass Sony Ericsson says “improve bass, let music become more volume, in practice, the sound remains flat. But what pleases me is that only player can be scold in W880i.

The volume is enough comfortably to listen to music not only on a busy street, but in the subway or any other public transport.

Out of interest, just as noteworthy feature, is TrackID. A

gain we turn to the description on the official site – “Just record a song a few seconds and all the information about the track, artist or album will be available within a few seconds”.

Funny opportunity for Walkman with FM-radio on board, but in the case of W880i it is a useless icon on the desktop, because the music that pours from the player to know there is no possibility, as composition should be recognized only through a microphone. Another function of downloading content PlayNow seems much more interesting in this case.

The player supports popular formats such as: MP3, AAC, AAC +, E-AAC +, WAV, WMA, M4A, however, it is difficult to imagine that many users listen to music in the format E-AAC +.

As a conclusion of the player it should be noted that it has many useful features. As for the level of the music, Walkman in this sense is ahead of other phones. However, if you are a music fan beginner, features of Walkman 2.0 will be sufficient.

Camera

In case of W880i camera is more a design element than a serious application. In fact, a small lens with a penny coin and the matrix of 2-megapixels is not as bad as it might seem at first glance.

Using the camera in landscape mode is very practical. The camera settings are standard – resolution, quality, effects, 2.5-fold digital zoom.

Conclusion

A small step for Sony Ericsson is a big leap for the market. Player phones go to the next level, slowly biting more and more of the market. Union of a phone and a music player looks more organic than a phone and a camera. In case of W880i nirvana is aggravated with battery with a capacity of 950 mAh. At 30 minutes of calls a day, using all sorts of functions and player for 2 hours a day, the phone worked for five days. It is an excellent result.

Having examined W880i brick by brick on the components, we have a stylish phone, rich functionalities and a decent player. Definitely a successful model, I recommend to buy it.