Glofiish M700

Included items

At the engineering sample testing came in a white package. The package delivery business model is somewhat different.

Scope of supply includes engineering design: himself communicator, a charger with adapter for CIS, cable USB-miniUSB synchronization with the PC, wired Stereo with the connector micro-jack (2.5 mm) and the apron of tissue.

Love of the kit is not similar to the one that comes with X500 model. To strengthen its belt as possible with the help of Staples, and through loops, which is set button.

Commercial models also include the user manual, a warranty card, spare stylus, as well as disk drivers and software. Anchorages in the car windscreen, as in the case of H500, is not complete, but it can be purchased as an enhancement.

Appearance and usability

Keyboard communicator M700 has a 5 mm thicker than the X500 model, but it is thinner than the nearest competitor HTC TyTN 2 mm. Shell is made of two types of plastic: the front and back of a smooth gray plastic, white in color silver metallic, on the sides of gray plastic, white in color gray metallic. At back corpus is "rigid ribs, which are likely to lock in better hands than to shell strength. Fixation very good communicator and is not trying to evade a hand. Front Panel thin and strong pressure notably windscreens. There are comments on the battery compartment lid, so that it withdraw, to start to walk stylus.

With tight and started rolling communicator splits and issue mass frightening sounds. In principle, this cost expected because shell is monoblock, and Slider. In addition, in order to make the keyboard to be strictly centered sunroof panel or from two sides simultaneously. It happens off and the panel stuck (at the nearest competitor HTC TyTN this shortcoming was not observed). Weight is low, only 165 grams, and because of a long device appears feeling vacuum in the tank.
Traditionally for ETEN (more accurately now Glofiish) on the front of the mass of keys. Under the standard screen key communicators: the beginning and end of the talk, two soft keys (which work with communicator without using stylus), joystick with key evidence in the center. By the last, there are several claims. First, the joystick is hard and strong pressure on the arrow keys are not rare keypress confirmation, because it strongly supports. Claims have and the very key evidence, it is mounted rubber membrane and recalls mini joysticks CPC Mitac Mio, which indeed it is a starting point for the joystick. Lights joystick and buttons blue glow in the dark and it looks very interesting. On display two reprogrammable key (default call "Contact" and utilities M-Desk), a center speaker phone.

Also on the front, on reprogrammable keys are two LED activity communicator, which displays the status of the battery, activity wireless interfaces and GPS receiver. Also, the law states orange indicator light effect of missed calls and reminders.

The keyboard is quite large (minimum size keys x 8 mm). Lights uniform, gently blue, and all keys clearly visible. Digital keyboard allocated more dark-key. Unfortunately, the test was an engineering sample and the keys were only Latin characters (and stapling English translation of "Russian" firmware failed). Therefore, the convenience keys were assessed in English texts. Purely subjective opinion is much more convenient than the HTC TyTN and the more than Qtek 9100. What did not like is the location of soft keys on the side of the main keyboard, the keys themselves miniature size and are back to the main keyboard.
At the end is right: the camera button, reset the hole (reset) and the key on / off.

The keyboard is quite large (minimum size keys x 8 mm). Lights uniform, gently blue, and all keys clearly visible. Digital keyboard allocated more dark-key. Unfortunately, the test was an engineering sample and the keys were only Latin characters (and stapling English translation of "Russian" firmware failed). Therefore, the convenience keys were assessed in English texts. Purely subjective opinion is much more convenient than the HTC TyTN and the more than Qtek 9100. What did not like is the location of soft keys on the side of the main keyboard, the keys themselves miniature size and are back to the main keyboard.

Screen

Display 2.8-inch diagonal, 320 х240 points, displays 65,535 colors. Screen bright and contrast. In direct sunlight enters the screen just away, but even in those circumstances it is comfortable. Adjusting brightness is 11 positions, but without the full off lights. The maximum level of illumination is so bright that hardly anyone will use it.

Sound subsystem

In conversation with a wired stereo sound very good, as well, and you will be heard. In conversation without sets in noisy places, there is insufficient volume of telephone dynamics. In conversation on means of enhancing handsfree voice could not talk while up to four meters from the communicator, but at maximum volume system dynamics is a little wheeze and subscriber at the other end "conductor" is beginning to hear their echoes, but that is the problem for most phones with handsfree. When listening through a headset communicator can be top dance (although frankly cheap headset), but on a systems dynamics long music does not want to listen, because sound quality is far from ideal, and the maximum volume trends have begun wheeze.

Photo / video camera

The camera is equipped with a 2-megapikselnym sensor. The quality of images is far from even cheaper, and perhaps come to tying photos to a number in the contact list. Built outbreak barely sufficient to remove pictures in the dark from a distance of no more than 70-100 see

It is possible to select movies, a set of jpeg photos or bmp, installation of images (1600 2800, 1280 h960, 640 h480, х240 320, 176 h144), the installation of one of the six white balance settings, and automatic mode, the installation effects (normal, negative, black and white, sepia, mirror image).

Conclusions

E-TEN Glofiish M700 showed himself very well. Yet it has flaws and they relate mostly shell. Just did not like the situation soft keys on the keyboard, and ASR is not very convenient basic joystick. On the menu can be attributed to the shortcomings of microSD memory cards, because dig in for full cards. And the main disadvantage of NAND memory with a low speed reading. Now on corrected deficiencies that were found in the X500 model (it is cool, but with the M700 are very close relatives). The main drawback X500 brighter divorce on the screen with the slightest pressure, the M700 is missing. Communicator comes with a full set of wireless interfaces: v2.0 + EDR Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GSM module, module EDGE, FM radio and GPS.

In fact, the market M700 is the only GPS communicator with a QWERTY keyboard and a powerful processor (HTC P3300 not by as built on the basis of slow processor Texas OMAP 200 MHz). Of the major competitors are still only TyTN HTC, which is equipped with 3G module (not popular in the CIS), but is not so helpful on board GPS.