Hello, I have had my 2nd behold for about 2 weeks now, and I thought I'd share my likes and dislikes about the phone, and some-what form it into a review! Hope you like
Lets start with the 5mp camera (auto focus)
When you hold down your camera button on the far right side of the phone, the camera feature will open. on the left and right, you will see a few other features and settings. On the left: Video, Mode, Timer, and Setup.
In video mode, you can capture videos and edit them! If you click on mode (while in video mode) you can take a normal video, and save it to your memory card. OR, you can click picture mail; which means after the video is done capturing, it will send automatically to a picture mail, it comes in handy alot
Now the timer; the timer is normally for taking videos of yourself. You can set it to 2 seconds, 5 seconds, 10 seconds or off. You can choose whichever you like, depending on how long you think it will take you to get infront of the phone
Now if you move on to setup; you can change your video resolution (auto set to 320x240) and an intersting feature, EFFECTS
if you tap effects you can chose for your video to be black&white, Sepia, Negative, and water color!
Black and white; i personally think it makes the video look better, but i perfer black and white pictures, than videos. Sepia is a little too brown for my taste, negative; the colors alter around when you turn the flash on, but other than that; its pretty cool
and water color is just ugly purple..
But its always recommended to keep the settings at auto.
Now, while your still in setup, at the top you will see another tab. CLICK IT.
Here you can choose if you want audio (sound) in your video, where the video will be stored, and review (watch the video after you take it) and guidelines is annoying, don't even mess with it xD
Now if you exit setup, there are 4 more things on the right; flash, brightness, default destination,and videos.
I would personally recommend to keep flash off (unless your in the dark)
I think its kind of cool that you can change the brightness of the video(:
default destination; here you can chose where you want the video to go to. and videos is where you can just view your previous taken videos.
Lets move back to the camera (:
if you click mode, there are ALOT more modes than the video recorder.
you can use single(default) continuous (takes fast pictures) panorama is personally my favorite. You can take a very large picture. The camera will automatically connect all the pictures, no matching up pictures or anything! I personally find smile shot useless, and mosaic is another cool feature! click it, choose a design. Lets use the heart for an example. I'll take a picture and there will be a blue heart before i take the picture. then I an take a second picture, and it will appear in the heart! (cool, huh?
Timer, same concept as the video. setup, Scene always comes in handy, you tap the kind of scene you want/ None for auto. Portrait for pictures of yourself Landsscape for nature shots (etc.) Night, for when your in the dark. Sports, for motion pictures. Sunset for when your in a sun-set area. Fawm, for when your outside, and its dawn
effects are the same as the videos.
If you click the second tab, you can change your shutter sounds, your default storage for photos taken. review (see the photo you take right after you take the photo) guidlines,again, ANNOYING.
When you exit setup, youll see other tools on the right.Brightness, default destination, and previous taken photos. Lets move onto messaging.
MESSAGING:
Click on menu>messaging.
Here you can create a new message, view your inbox, view or send emails, view IM conversations, view your outbox(messages youve sent)
Drafts(messages you hacent finishes),folders (you can move certain messages here), templates(for fast-messaging), message settings, delete by folder, and your memory status. LETS START FORM THE TOP
if you tap on create message and tap the screen, you will see that you have a t9 based keyboard. you can click done when your done typing, change your text mode, go to cymbols, and the EN button chanes your language. Now, while your still in t9-based keyboard, at the top0right, you will see a pen CLICK IT, you can draw a letter, and the phone will type in the letter! It's a tad slow, but its still cool!
now, rotate your phone to the left, and accelerometer will kick the phone into a landscape keyboard. t9 is still enabled here, which means it will try to make it to where you wont misspell anything. To the left of the A, is a button that brings you back into the t9-based keyboard, which i think is useless, ebcause you can just turn the phone if you want the t9-keyboard o.O lets go back to the messaging.
If you click inbox, you will see all your received messages. There is a create new, sort by, move, and delete. Click the back button, and lets check out email. Click add acount, choose your server, and login. Now, it will appear in your accounts when you click email, for easier access to your email. :] Here, you can obiivously send messages and such, but lets look at it more detailed :]
click on options, you will see read(reads the message you have highlighted), compose(make a new email), reply(reply's to the message you have highlighted) mark unread, delete view other folder, retreive mail, signature, click sugnature. You can type in anything you like. It will show up at the end of every email you send. click back, pereferences, and sign out. When you compose an email, it has the same keyboard as text messaging. Lets move onto IM?
IM (Instant-Messenger)
When you click the IM widget, you will see 4 popular IM servers.
AIM
ICQ
WINDOWS LIVE
AND YAHOO
Aim was upsetting, you had to go on your computer and move all your contacts to a mobile folder, same thing with yahoo.
Same keyboard as text messaging and email.
Lets move onto music Player.
MUSIC PLAYER;
here you can listen to songs that you have downloade from your PC, and you can even make them your ringtone! If you click settings, you will see that background playing is on. If it is on, that means you can roam around other areas of your phone, and still listen to your music!!
this is all i can do right now, ill add more later.
