Designing and Viewing
Hello? Oh, 2004 is that you can call?
In fact, the Gravity Q is a design from another era, an era when sliding keyboard phones were the rage. Well, I promise that I will not be snide when I say that. Even a decade later, it is a design that remains is to serve as a versatile, functional and extremely easy. There is also a nice change, as almost all other phone on the market now is a plastic rectangle.
At 4.43 inches long and 2.35 inches wide and 0.56 inches deep, the Gravity Q small, short and thick, with rounded ends and curved sides. In my hands, which are used with a large screen smartphone, it immediately felt foreign, but more familiar the longer I held it. Since I like the Gravity Q have used ages ago a phone, it almost felt like a friend coming to visit. It's harder than it looks and 4.19 ounces, though it is made of plastic, I would feel more comfortable watching a clothes dryer as I would a Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5
The paltry QVGA display is only 3 inches from corner to corner. This is positive miniature by today's standards, but, frankly, there is no need for more space in the face of low-end functions. I am concerned about the dim resolution (262.000 colors, 240x320 pixels). Yes, one could also argue that the resolution of the gravity lean features befitting the Q, but I would also prefer a small step. After all, even on a phone like this, you're going to spend a lot of time staring at the screen while you text.
On the other hand, the display is a touch screen, so there is at least one mark of a smartphone. It is not very appealing, but I never had the touch interface all that much. You can cycle between five home screens and you can populate with several widgets - nice. At the bottom of the display are three touch controls for the (small) virtual numeric pad of your contact list and main menu. There is no accelerometer, unless you automatically turn in camera mode, but the display when you open the keyboard (more on that in a moment).
Control and keyboard
Below the display are the Talk and End keys (both are touch controls) and a physical Back / Clear key. By the beginning of the 3.5 mm headset jack on the left spine are a camera shutter and the power control and the right side of the spine has a long record volume rocker and a microSD slot, the card with up to 32GB can. I can not imagine ever need so much space on the Gravity Q, but it is a welcome touch exactly the same. The camera lens is near the top of the back of the phone, right where I wanted to put my fingers.
The Gravity Q has three touch controls on the bottom of the 3-inch display. Among them are two more touch controls and a physical Back button.
To get the keyboard, turn the Gravity Q to the left and 90 degrees to slide up the front. The slider mechanism needs more than a gentle nudge, so not to lose it, and it springs too stiff in its place, without feeling. For such a small phone, the physical keyboard is quite spacious, with large buttons that are not crowded together. There is also another test by me not by displacement of the top row of keys against the slide. With four rows of buttons, most buttons serve double duty with a letter and a number or symbol. Four arrow controls, an OK button, and a dedicated. "Com" / "www." Key sit right, and I like the long space bar is right in the middle of the bottom row. Useful shortcuts will bring you to your mailbox, and a list of emoticons. The keys are slightly raised so that you can not give to feel, but I found the keyboard very easy to use. In fact, it is an improvement over the keyboard to the most immediate predecessors of Q Gravity, the Gravity TXT.
The Q-Gravity keyboard is spacious and easy to use.
Properties
As I mentioned earlier, the Gravity Q provides little fun on the most important mobile phone functions. For starters, the phone book holds 2,000 contacts with multiple fields per entry. Organizer features include a calculator, a calendar, an alarm clock and a notepad, hold no surprises. You also get Bluetooth, voice dialing and commands, and a voice memo recorder, but no Wi-Fi. The Gravity Q supports a limited number of apps and comes with three demo games loaded. You can find more titles if you want, but app-happy buyer would be better off with a full-fledged smartphone.
As you would expect from a keyboard device, the Q supports many types of written communication, including SMS messages accompanying photos and videos, and some e-mail services. Note, however, that while the domestic text and photo messages are free with any T-Mobile service plan, e-mail data. Yes, you get 500MB data plan with the carrier of the cheapest, but you have to factor in using e-mail in monitoring your data. Fortunately, the Gravity Q tiny screen and slow 3G connection will not put you in a crazy mood data in the first place. The same applies to the web browser. It is rather slow and cumbersome to use, but still fine if you really need it.
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