The mobile phone is my first smartphone and thus my first android. Therefore, I will not distinguish precisely between phone and operating system-specific properties. And anyway I'm quite happy with the phone, I will discuss mainly due to the negative characteristics. That's interesting ...
Appearance:
The size is great. It is a little pudgy compared to most (large) smartphones, characterized but handy and easy to operate with one hand.
The Orange looked at the pictures of great, in real it seems to me a bit over to spielzeugmäig. Too bad that there was not the variant with white stripes.
Processing and perceived quality are good. However, it seems to me that both disk and silver frame in the core made of plastic and have therefore concern about the durability. The disc appears to be already fitted on delivery with a sort of protective film. At least it looks like I do not trust myself to knibbeln it. I hope that you can buy a replacement foil, there are in fact quite a few scratches on it. In the accessories overview, I have unfortunately found nothing appropriate. The plugs for USB and headphones are something hakelig and not necessarily made for eternity.
Camera:
The camera has a lot of settings, that's good. The picture quality, however, is quite bad, I've hammer out a picture that still looks decent even on a larger screen. The Panorama features require quite a lot of sensitivity. Night shots are particularly difficult and image noise.
Lens is dirty rather quickly - why donated to an outdoor phone no slider?
Battery:
Despite small screen you should, unless you just phoned them and all Funker land off, open daily. Tethering what works well in itself, is around 2 hours on battery.
Display:
The brightness control could be better adjusted, too little is dimmed at night. In some lighting conditions, there is a flicker. The reported lights in the lower right corner is there, but did not interfere.
Bluetooth:
as so often, with compatible headset (Nokia) is annoying and voice quality poor. For external GPS receiver I could not connect.
Navi:
To get to Navigation (Google), you have to strive to about 3 different apps. Particularly awkward it anzunavigieren own POIs is. Navigation off is quite OK. Ovi Maps (Nokia) has even disadvantages, like with but overall better. Big Mist: the manufacturer, there is neither a special bicycle, nor a car holder. Previously tested standard mounts fall out because of the protruding loop.
Speech recognition
Does not work under Android 2.3 or less. Hope for improvement.
Enamel
Supi: connection to Exchange closed immediately. Mail program is unfortunately Sch .... For example, no search function (on a "Google" cell phone!), No proper support folder, no marking of spam ... In a feature overview SE wrote that the phone does not have a calendar function. That's nonsense, of course, I had already thought.
Conclusion: If the cell phone someday come by 200 EUR in the region, it is highly recommended.
+++ Update 30.07.2012 +++
I now have a few weeks ago in Android version 4 on the device. This brings a few improvements. Essentially, the performance is but slumped. Since it was advertised with the update, I reduce my rating of 4 to 2 stars. I hope I can make the phone -Update reversed.
What has improved:
# The Calendar widget has been greatly improved.
# The built-in data counter can make extra apps obsolete.
# The mail program (at least when using an Exchange mailbox) has been improved enormously. So you can now easily switches to another application and return without you have to shimmy back again to the last mail. You can also browse properly, namely the server data, so online.
# The SD card could be used by the cell phone, if you have built up a cable connection to the computer.
# Some bundled apps can be uninstalled.
# If you have "enter sample" to unlock selected, you have to push aside no longer additionally the bar.
What has become worse:
# The task overview (long on "House" hold) has now indeed great thumbnails. That makes it for me but not necessarily clearer. Mainly because the function has now become extremly hakelig. Sometimes it's a matter of luck whether you get called at all the task overview.
# The status LED stops flashing or not always with new SMS.
# The repeatedly touted bicycle navigation feature in Google Maps I can not see. Otherwise I do not see any real improvements in Google Maps. The menu system has become more complicated. Significant deterioration in navigation, it provides scheibar now higher hardware requirements than the unit can provide. During navigation it freezes like a time.
# Switch between screens also hakelt and remains from and depend on time between 2 screens.
# The screenshot function I can not find - very annoying!
# Of the alleged ICS innovation "Face Detection" I have not yet discovered s. # The option to come out of the lock-side directly to the camera, you do not benefit when choosing a pattern to unlock.
# In the browser and on the foreground of the page disappears.
# The operation of the browser has become comical sensitive, it happens very often, which is interpreted as a scrolling touch.
# The browser was robbed of his icons. All the functions you need to now select from a long, confusing list in text form.
# Maybe just a feeling: the phone loses the connection to the more common domestic wireless.
