The good: The Motorola i412 is a slap on the base with full-size keyboard. Features include push-to-talk iDEN support, Bluetooth and text messaging and multimedia. Call quality is great.
The bad: The Motorola i412 has only a VGA camera, the screen is dull, and the menu interface is poor.
The bottom line: If you can live with bad design and functionality, the Motorola i412 offers excellent call quality at an affordable price for the prepaid market.
Review:
Boost Mobile is often proud to offer a wide variety of phones to suit all budgets, including the economic foundations of the new phone. The Motorola i412 is a device of this type. With design features and minimum background, the phone will not attract those who want something high end, but for only $ 69.99 without a contract, which could be perfect for those on a tight budget.
Design
The Motorola i412 is typical of most basic flip phones. It has a simple rectangular design width, with a measurement of 3.8 inches long by 1.9 cm wide by 0.8 inches deep. The faceplate is slightly higher, with the display panel in the external environment. The overall atmosphere of the i412 is predictable cheap, but it is not surprising given its price. As far as aesthetics go, we believe that design is a little on the boring side. Fortunately, the electric blue sheet that gives a little spice.
In the central panel is a thin 1-inch monochrome screen that displays the remaining battery life, signal strength, and the date and time. It also identifies the call and message notifications. Sitting above the screen is the VGA camera. Below the screen are the main speaker, and a smart key that allows you to access the Recent Calls list when the lid is closed. You can scroll through the list with the volume control. To select a number, simply press the speaker above, and a call is made without opening the phone. Volume control and push-to-talk key is in the left column, while a micro USB port is on the right.
Open the phone screen and is a mediocre 1.79 inches. It only supports 64,000 colors at a resolution of 128x160 pixels. As a result, the graphics and the text looks pretty grain and crashes. This is typical of entry-level phones, but we can not but wish for a clear display anyway. You can set the wallpaper, font size, the subject of the screen, the timer light, the clock format, and menu. Menu of the default network is unfortunately typical of many iDEN phones - the interface requires the implementation of several pages.
Below the screen is a simple navigation array consists of two soft keys, a round toggle, a menu key and a camera button. The switches can be attributed to four shortcuts defined by the user. We found that the table can be used, but I wish it was not so flat. Below the table are the sending and on / off keys. The keyboard is spacious, and we like what each key is separated and raised above the surface in a square-like. Therefore, it is easy to text and dial just by feeling around.
Feature
The Motorola i412 does not have many features, but has the essentials and then some. These include an address book for 600 entries with enough room for multiple numbers, email address and even IP address. You can also customize each with one of 20 polyphonic ringtones that come preloaded on the phone. You can not add a photo ID, which is logical since the external display does not support it. Like the i412 supports Push to Talk, you can also add numbers from walkie-talkies and assign groups of PTT.
Some of the basic features include text messaging and multimedia Java applications by e-mail Web fonts, including Yahoo, AOL and Gmail, instant messaging, Bluetooth and a WAP browser. You are also essential, as a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, a calendar, call alerts, voice recorder, a notepad, call timers, and the GPS even.
