The Zero-3 is one of the very few things that I feel it's "too light." The entire thing is practically made of plastic, and feels cheap in the hand, complete with Japanese-style cheap I/O covers. There is a little lag of around 1sec switching from portrait to landscape mode, otherwise operation feels rather snappy. Screen is indeed a tad dark, but unless you're watching video on it, that shouldn't be a problem. The keyboard is actually quite useable, the keys are spaced well apart enough that I had no worries of hitting the wrong button, and the space key didn't really pose much of a problem while typing (remember that the Japanese language rarely requires the need of spaces). Camera quality is acceptable for a 1.3mp, though it's weird they didn't stick a much better one on this baby. There is no way to try out phone-call quality on the demo machine (obviously), but seriously, I am NEVER to let myself be seen with this brick by my head = =.
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The Zero-3 is one of the very few things that I feel it's "too light." The entire thing is practically made of plastic, and feels cheap in the hand, complete with Japanese-style cheap I/O covers. There is a little lag of around 1sec switching from portrait to landscape mode, otherwise operation feels rather snappy. Screen is indeed a tad dark, but unless you're watching video on it, that shouldn't be a problem. The keyboard is actually quite useable, the keys are spaced well apart enough that I had no worries of hitting the wrong button, and the space key didn't really pose much of a problem while typing (remember that the Japanese language rarely requires the need of spaces). Camera quality is acceptable for a 1.3mp, though it's weird they didn't stick a much better one on this baby. There is no way to try out phone-call quality on the demo machine (obviously), but seriously, I am NEVER to let myself be seen with this brick by my head = =.