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Less than 200euro cool phone?
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26-05-2009 12:03am#1
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TheKnowledge wrote: »I was looking at the W595 alright but I have a sony ericsson already and the W595 has been around a while now.
I'm kinda drawn to the LG Cookie or Viewty but I'm warey cos they are so cheap for a touch screen. PLus I'm a man and the Viewty is a bit feminine with that pointer thing that hangs off it.
It's called a stylus. And you don't have to have it attached to the phone. I don't use it. Don't see how it would make it feminine though
They're pretty much essential for PDA's etc and I don't see many people looking feminine using them. 0 -
Mr. Anderson wrote: »It's called a stylus. And you don't have to have it attached to the phone. I don't use it. Don't see how it would make it feminine though They're pretty much essential for PDA's etc and I don't see many people looking feminine using them.
I was just looking at videos of it on youtube and it looks good!
Would you recommend it?0 -
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TheKnowledge wrote: »I was just looking at videos of it on youtube and it looks good!
Would you recommend it?
Probably not, actually.
The touch screen does take some getting used to when typing texts etc because you don't have that feedback of an old-fashioned button-click. There is a feature you can turn on that gives a small vibrate to indicate you have pressed the button correctly. But I turned that off immediately as I'd imagine it would kill your battery. Which isn't very good anyway. You have a choice of creating messages using the number pad, a full qwerty keyboard in landscape or you can use the stylus to write on screen and its converted using handwriting recognition software.
The battery seems very temperamental. It seems good at times and terrible at others. I think it's a feature of touch-screens in general though as I know other people who have Samsung, Blackberry and iPhone touch screens and they all find the battery quite poor.
For features the phone is great. The camera is 5mp which makes my actual digital camera of 4mp obsolete. It has a video recorder too which can capture in slow motion but the quality is poor if the area isn't well lit. Mp3 player and picture viewer are all quite good and easy to use.
I don't use the WAP or email on it because I'm pay as you go and going online normally costs an arm and a leg. You can't set it up to your gmail account as it doesn't support SSL so its virtually useless for me as a mail client. I probably wouldn't use it if it worked though to be honest.
I have an iPod touch and can say the slickness of its interface is miles better than the Viewty. The Viewty is unresponsive at times and the scrolling feature in particular is quite poor; sluggish and often opens an item instead of scrolling down a menu which was your intention. The screen has frozen on me about half a dozen times and I've no idea what causes it. It leaves the screen unresponsive to touch but you can use a scroll wheel at the back of the phone or the call/end buttons to open menu's on screen. Leaves you having to turn the phone off and on again to use it properly.
It's fine for what I use to be honest. I text a lot so its fine, the camera is very handy and the screen is nice at 3 inches. Makes the phone a tad bulky though.0 -
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I dont think thats any of your business.NewApproach wrote: »Why do you have to limit yourself to €200 if you've €100k to blow on a car0
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