The capacity of the phone is huge. Also is having plenty of surprise menu point and it seems that Onida was trying to do his best.
But Basics bugs make the use of the phone as such, a real trouble.
Synchronisation to computer dont work at all.
The Menu logic is poor and not consistent. This means that the menu distribution change depending on the activity. It seems that each activity was designed from a different group, and no coordination was in between them was done.
BUGS:
- Phone dont allways recognised that RINGING is finished and the connection is executed. Therefor further menu acess is not possible, as th ephone believe to be in ringing mode.
- MENU access after Connection: Phone dont allways recognised that RINGING is finished and the connection is executed and accessing MENU is not possible (therefor activities such as reading Phone number, Voice recorder, Agenda and Task controll are not possible)
- Loudspeaker: is only available once the line have been connected, mean RINGING mode is finalised. It needs to be ON before starting Dialing. Many time also not available even after connection is executed, as mentionned above.
- LOCKED: once the phone goes to KeyLock mode, LCD is going in on mode after pressing any key. This is not very nice as is constantly ON while phone is in the pocket any keys are pressed. It should goes ON only when the Unlocked Key is pressed. This will also improve baterry consumption.
- ONCE in MENU, LCD display is going to OFF after time out, but Keylock is not activated. Results can be desastrous.
- Menu Point: "PhoneBook", "EXTRA NUMBER" is supposed to be within "SETTING", "DUAL SIM SETTING".
- DISPLAY SETUP: SHOW OWNER NUMBER dont work, it shows OWNERS NAME.
- DIALING 2#, 3# etc: result no Phonebook Entry. While it is supposed to dial the 2nd entry in phonebook or SIM.
- FLASH LIGHT: is under ORGANIZER, instead of SETTING
- E-BOOK reader: is ONLY a TXT-REader
- VIDEO: the video recorder is not able to record medium to high resolution video without interuption.
- FM radio: dont work without the earphone.
-PC Sync: only the Phonebook in SIM can be synchronised. All rest is buggy.
How to:
- Removing ON and OFF Noise/Music. This is very disgusting in a meeting to switch off or ON the phone!!
- Removing all reconfirmation. Once we pressed DONE, confirmation "you really want to save" is not needed.
- Alarms: sound is just for 30 sec. SNOOZE only delay the next remembering. For Wake up it is needed that this sound ring for 10 min. As soon the phone is "touched" it should snoozed.
- NAME: All name in SIM are allway visualised. Normmaly SIM names are security copyes of DATA available in Phone for backup purposes. The available SIM format is mostly not very efficient. Those name should be only shown when configured to do so. The SIM can be copy to Phone memory and there is therfor no need of showing it again in NAMES.
- Flight Mode: the short cut switch on the flight mode. Once in Flight mode, the same short cut should remove the Flight mode to normal mode. Means the Mode available before Flight mode was taken.
- Improve the speed of searching for a name in the phonebook. The speed have been set to 1 sec per name. So It take 40min to go through the Phonebook, searching for 1 name between 2000 number.
If you press the first leter then it will go there, but after clearing it will restart from A. So you need to press all the alphabet if you need to search for a number you dont remember.
MISSING:
- CALLING CARDS facility are completly missing. Which is nothing as dialing before number a certain TEl. Nr, then Once Calls connect to send as tones the preprogrammed code, and the shoosen tel. Nr.
- VOICE DIALING: Voice recognition is standard, needed during car driving activities and is a MUST for security reason, available since more then 15 years even for lowest cost Cells. It is completely missing.
- CODES: Memorising a list of special CODES, codified with insured password is missing.
- PHONE, SETUP, DEDICATED KEYS: missing possibility of long KEY pressing. Even if LONG KEY PRESSING for middle key is activating LED Light. It cannot be reconfigured for other more important activity.
- TIME SETTING: Summertime saving correction is missing.
- Pressing KEY CALL (green Phone), the last Dialed Calls are shown. After pressing OK & OPTION. DELETE is the first Entry. This is not safe. Safe is SAVE to PHONEBOOK, EDIT, DIAL, "CALLING CARD CALL", "ADD TO AGENDA TASK" SEND SMS, MMS, and Last should be DELETE. DURATION of Last call is missing, if connection have not been recognised.
- AGENDA/ORGANIZER. SETUP, Daily view is missing
- TODO list: Own grouping is missing
- SHORTCUT: JAVA Aplication execution is missing
- How to short cut: VOICE RECORDER, START RECORDING, during Call with 1 or max. 2 Key pressed. Filename & Number should be given automatically. Renaming can be executed in later phase, after phone call is finished.
- OBEX is not supported. Therfor standard Sync application such as MyPhoneExplorer, FMA or GAMMU are not able to sync with the Phone. Partial sync in simple AT command are possible only for SIM phonebook, SMS and Info. All the rest is missing and cannot be synced.
- Possibility of reflashing, updating, upgrading the phone via FD, USB or Bluetooth is missing. This is for a Beta version an advantage, and supported from almost all wellnamed manufacturer.
3) Following have been found not work at ONIDA PHONESUITE. V2.4
- Outlook sync: crash Phonesuite during sync with Outlook Outlook 2003 under Vista Home.
- same for Lotus notes V2.4
- Export of Phonebook, agenda/organizer and Task are missing, therefore the Phone is for any syncing not usable. A phone which cannot be synced is of no use.
- Lightning/Thunderbird Sync is missing.
- Time/ date sync is missing.
- Support of standard OBEX or AT Command programms, typicall for Syncing of Phone with PC, are not working properly due to no conformity of MTK2 commands.
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