Eten worked hard on its device’s design and it surely shows. In less than 2 years, the Taiwanese company heavily modified the form of its device and made it thinner and thinner. Looking back at the old bulky designs of M600 or G500, it hardly seems possible for the X500+ to have been manufactured by the same company. Almost everything has been changed, starting with the compact form or the compound used.
Eten's glofiish X500+ can easily compete with any of HTC's devices, less the Touch model which is a masterpiece. Anyway, the X500+ is one of the slimmest Pocket PC's manufactured by Eten with only 15.5 mm thickness.
The rubberized plastic gives a stylish look and feels very good to the touch. Moreover, the Pocket PC doesn't catch any fingerprints when being heavily used but instead will get soiled sometimes. It looks just like a candybar, simple and compact with excellent ergonomics. The external buttons have been smartly embedded onto the phone's sides so that it will not make any dissonant note.
Only the Volume keys and the Voice command button placed on the left side of the device make an exception. For music lovers, on the same side there's a 2.5mm port jack that will enable users to plug any compatible headsets. The Power button and the camera key are strategically placed on the right side of the device. Between these two, there's a very small slot where you will notice the Reset button.
On the bottom, there are 2 unprotected openings: the miniUSB port and the microSD slot. The back of the phone includes the 2 Megapixel camera with flash and the external speaker.
I hope you're not used to get out the stylus from the top of the device, because Eten placed the stylus on the downward, on the bottom of the device.
Besides the 2 contextual keys and the Accept/End calls that are surrounding the silver 5-way navigational key, there are another 2 shortcut keys, above the big display which will give you access to the M-Desk and to the GPS viewer.
Unfortunately, the phone lacks a QWERTY keyboard, but this is probably due to its slim design or ergonomics reasons.
The exact measures of the device (113.5 x 60.5 x 15.5 mm) and weight (146 grams including battery) make it a perfect fit for any businessman pocket.
Display and Camera
This is by far the best 2.8 inch display on the market. The TFT-LCD screen supports 65k colors and 640 x 480 pixels VGA resolution. With more pixels on the screen, images and movies viewed on the X500+ are sharper and show more detail considerably enhancing the mobile multimedia experience.
I have noticed that the use of the Quick Links bar on the main display seriously slows down the device.
Glofiish X500+ has not been manufactured to compete with other devices regarding its camera pictures quality.
Instead, Eten offers rather a mediocre quality of the images, but it’s no wonder as most of the Pocket PCs don't feature better camera modules. The 2 Megapixel camera can take pictures in various resolutions varying from 176 x 144 pixels to 1600 x 1200 pixels resolutions.
The camera has all the standard features such as: white balance, self-portrait mirror and LED flash.
Again it's all about the light and ... luck. Just push the button and pray that the camera catches the moment you so much desired. You can only shoot clips in 3GP formats at a max resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.
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