Nice looking phone in general but let down by poorly thought out UI and ergonormics.
- First, it is impossible to use the phone without the stylus. That rules out one-handed use.
- Slow. Slow, slow slow. And it ignores the first touch on the screen. So you always get your password PIN wrong!.
- The "Xpanel" UI, the "killer" feature that the phone came with is slow to update and very buggy. Crashing at least once a day. It is also extremely fiddly to customise the layouts.
- Bits of the UI uses swipe-scrolling, others just laughs at you.
- The "optical joystick" - another "killer" feature, conspires to drain the battery when you keep the phone in your pocket (like most people do) as it picks up the movements of the inside of your pocket and keeps the phone awake for as long as you have it in your pocket. The senario: You put the phone to sleep. An email comes in, the phone wakes up in your pocket. You don't hear the beep and leaves it. The "optical joystick" now goes to work, scrolling all over the screen and keeping the phone awake, for as long as you are moving. It will occasionally make calls on its own as well, if you move around long enough. What a stupid feature!
- The "optical joystick". Yeah, it's that bad. It is sensitive (see above). It is overly sensitive. You open up your emails. you use it to scroll to message that you want. You press down on the optical joystick (what a stupid idea!) to open the email to read it. It then decides that you have moved your thumb again and scrolls down (or up) one message and opens that one instead. ARGH!!!!
