E-TEN Tries to Raise the Bar (3/4)
E-TEN Glofiish V900 with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
The Communications Manager features finger-friendly buttons.
Here we are in settings. There's nothing too interesting in the Personal tab.
On the System tab, there are some unique entries: Contrast and Gravity Sensor.
Moving the slider, I really couldn't tell much of a difference of the contrast on the screen.
From the Gravity Sensor setting you can turn the function on and off, plus change its sensitivity. The Exceptions button is a good addition...
From here you can select which programs that the G Sensor shouldn't
work in. The Samsung Omnia should have this! That said, the G Sensor didn't work right all the time. More on that on the next page.
The 128MB of RAM doesn't seem to be enough. We only have 40MB remaining with just ActiveSync and Pocket Controller running.
And here are the settings for the TV-Out. The cables included are the analogue red/white/yellow composite cables, so don't expect amazing image quality. But if you're using it to show the family a slideshow with music on a big screen, it's alright. The maximum output resolution is around that of VGA.
And in the connections tab, we have something called Connection Wizard.
Connection Wizard seems like a good idea - as it'll load the settings for any carrier, except that it didn't work, and I had to manually enter the settings for AT&T USA to get the data connection going.
Take a look at this video that illustrates some features that I've written about.
CAMERA
The camera application features small cryptic icons that are difficult to use. For example, to change the image size to the highest resolution, you have to cycle through all of the other resolutions to get to the one you want. Instead there should be a pop down menu.
Here is an outdoor shot taken at max 3.1MP resolution. The image is clear, but noisy when you view the large version.
Color reproduction was generally good.
The camera didn't perform well at taking macros, even when using the flash.
Click on to the next page as we wrap up the review with a note on performance, battery life, and talk about all the Cons of the device.
