New monitors are, more often than not, quite easy to configure with comprehensive on-screen menus and quite a few settings to tweak. The Nokia 446XS is no different. You access the on screen menus with the "enter" key and navigate up and down them with a small wheel on the monitors side, which Nokia calls the "Navi" wheel. Click the enter key again and you access a sub menu, where, as before, you move around with the "Navi" wheel. Then you click an option with the enter key and tweak the settings with the wheel. Simple enough.
Now, what can be tweaked? A whole bunch of settings actually. First of all, you can of course fiddle around with monitor centering, width, height, with different settings possible for every resolution and refresh rate. Then there's shape: where you can adjust tilt, orthagonality, trapezoid and pincushion to get the best possible representation of the onscreen content. You can adjust Moire and color settings to suite your surroundings, various presets and separate controls for RGB color values are available. , And lastly, "demagnetize" aka degauss and a bunch of options for the onscreen menu, such as delay before it automatically disappears, language and so on are also available.
No doubt, the number one thing to look at when it comes to judging a monitor is its image quality. The Nokia 446XS's image quality is very nice, the colors and contrast are absolutely top notch. The image, for the most part, is razor sharp, but it suffers ever so slightly from a problem that just about every monitor suffers from -- the image is a little blurry on the outer edges of the screen, though not so much that it is disturbing. Besides, those particular spaces are seldom occupied by things other than the close window "X" or your Windows clock, so it's really not that big a deal. It's not like you can't see it, it's just not razor sharp like the rest of the image.
