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2. Design, shape and buttons

To decide, which of the two is more beautiful, I think, is a woman’s job. Men cannot make such

decisions when buying a technological device :)

The colors and metal insets make the Mio very elegant and professional looking. Its size is also

rather like a mobile phone (it’s only somewhat bigger than a Nokia 3310) and the touch of the housing is

also very gentle and pleasing.

The E-TEN makes rather a PDA impression, with its symmetric design and smooth surface. The

blue-colored, illuminating thin line running around the buttons and the screen looks very cool. Also, the

big GPS sign on the top shows that we’re not dealing with some cheap crap here.

When using them as a phone, both are very handy. Those who prefer lighter devices might notice that

the E-TEN is heavier. For me, using an HTC Blue Angel, both of them seemed very lightweight, but I

must admit that also I noticed the considerably less weight of the Mio.

Regarding the hardware buttons and their amount, the G500 wins.

On the Mio’s left side, there’s only the two volume buttons, which are definitely not easy to press.

The right side owns the photo-button, activating the camera, and the SD card slot. The front panel

consists of the screen, the five-directional navigation button and four other buttons: two (red and green)

for the phone, one for Windows Media Player and one for the navigation system that we can install on the

device. The five-directional joystick reminds me of that of the HTC Himalaya (XDA/MDA II) that was

basically useless. Luckily the designers of Mio separated the middle action button from the four

directional pad (unlike at the Himalaya, which made it useless). While using it, it’s not always sure

though, which direction we have activated when pressing the circular dial. This might be difficult for

those with bigger fingers, but even for those with normal size fingers it needs to get used to. Turning the

Mio on/off is done by pressing the red phone button. This is solved in a very stupid way, as for turning

the device off, one needs to push the red button for 3 seconds and then touch the screen on the word

“Sleep.” Turning on is done by pressing the red button shortly. This, however has a bad side effect: the

last activated program gets minimized, as the red button’s secondary operation (primary is hanging up the

phone) is the substitution of pressing the on-screen X in the upper-right corner, thus minimization.

The five-directional navigation button of the E-TEN is also strange after using the Blue Angel. One

can be sure of which direction is pressed on the rectangular dial, but the action button in the middle is too

short and is too deeply submerged in the housing, making it difficult to push. But once it’s pushed, a nice

click can be felt, thus we are aware that our command was given. Using this dial, the action button

definitely needs to get used to. The other hardware buttons are also submerged in the housing, but they

can be found easily, even without looking, thanks to the small patterns on them. This is on contrary to the

Mio, where none of the buttons on the front panel can be “touched out” blindly. The G500’s front panel

provides the red/green phone buttons, two soft-keys above them that always do what is written above

them (this is a WM5 feature, similar to that of the Nokia cell phones). Above the screen there are two

other buttons. The default settings are: one for E-TEN’s own software, M-Home or M-Desk, whereas the

other is meant to launch the navigation system we install. The left side provides a slide button for volume,

the camera activating photo-button and another button without any default function. The slide button for

the volume is much easier to use than the Mio’s volume buttons. The right side owns the on/off button

(submerged in the housing so that it cannot be pushed when having the machine in our pocket). This is a

great advantage to the Mio: one can turn on/off the G500 as other PDA’s: short push for on/off, long push

for backlight on/off.

All hardware buttons on both devices (except the phone buttons and the navigation keys) can be

programmed for any function or installed software, which is a Windows feature.

The reset buttons are on the sides, right side on the Mio and left side on the E-TEN. To compare the

five directional navigation pads, I think that the Mio’s one is a tiny little bit better.

The key lock is much simpler and user-friendlier for the E-TEN: when the device is turned off, it

reacts to nothing, except the on/off button. The Mio however by default reacts to all the buttons and also

to a touch on the screen, so it’s better to use the built-in lock feature. Once this is on, turning the Mio on

consists of pushing the red button, then touching the screen where it says “Unlock” then the Unlock word

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