Software

As far as the monitor software goes, Eizo offers one of the more interesting solutions on the market. It's called G-Ignition and is available for Windows, Android, and iOS. To use it within Windows, the monitor needs to be connected to the PC via the supplied USB cable. The mobile version of the G-Ignition app requires your smartphone and the Foris FS2735 to be paired via Bluetooth.


The Windows version of the app looks very nice. As soon as you fire it up, it will allow you to quickly switch between all available picture profiles, and you can apply the settings to every Foris FS2735 connected to your PC, should you have more than one.


The Import menu contains a list of games that are played by professional teams endorsed by Eizo. When you click on one of these, you'll get a list of professional players who uploaded their monitor profiles, which you can then import and freely use for your own endeavors in that game. This is a neat feature that brings the user closer to eSports professionals, although I'm not particularly impressed by the number of offered profiles. I found 14 for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but only one for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and no more than three for Battlefield 1. Don't confuse these profiles with ICC profiles. They simply change the various OSD settings of your monitor listed on the previous page of this review - nothing else. Before importing those profiles, make sure you switch to one of the unmodified user profiles from the main menu (User3 to User6) to leave the User1 profile containing the factory defaults intact.


In the Color Adjustment menu, you can control various parts of the OSD from within for a better-looking interface. As soon as you change something, the appropriate setting will be pushed to the monitor via USB and applied. Once again, these settings aren't separate from their counterparts located in the OSD. Think of it as an alternative way to access and change the OSD settings. To find out what all those options do, check out the previous page of this review.


The Hot Key menu allows you to define the keyboard shortcuts for turning the monitor on and off, muting the speakers, switching picture profiles, setting the screen's scale (Full Screen, Aspect Ratio, or 1:1) and controlling the Smart Insight function. This option alone makes installing the G-Ignition software worth it, with its arguably most useful feature being the ability to quickly switch between picture profiles without ever having to touch the monitor. Wonderful!


Here's yet another awesome feature offered by the G-Ignition software. You can attach all available picture profiles to various apps that are installed on your PC. For example, you can have the monitor automatically switch to the Paper picture profile, which makes the picture extremely warm and, well, paper-like when working in Word, and to activate Smart Insight and add sharpness as soon as you fire up a Steam game. I tried using the Web/sRGB profile for Chrome and Paper for Word, opening both of their windows side by side and switching between them, just to see how the monitor and the G-Ignition software would handle the quick transition. It worked beautifully, seamlessly switching from one profile to the other as I switched between Chrome's and Word's window. In order to populate this list with the apps you're using, you simply need to run them once, while having the monitor connected to the PC via the supplied USB cable.


Unlike its Windows counterpart, the mobile G-Ignition app is slow, with about five seconds of loading separating you from opening any of its menus. I also have to admit that its purpose remains unclear to me. Why on earth would I want to control the monitor's settings through my phone when I have a great Windows app and an intuitive OSD at my disposal, with both of them offering more options and containing no load times? Sure, the Bluetooth connection is also used to turn the smartphone's notifications into on-screen prompts, but I found that to be awfully distracting and not configurable or informative enough. With the existence of apps like Pushbullet that already do a great job of pushing smartphone notifications to the PC, both the built-in Bluetooth support and G-Ignition mobile app feel redundant and pointless.


If you plan to have your smartphone connected with the monitor via Bluetotoh, which allows you to receive on-screen prompts whenever someone sends you a message, calls you or one of your mobile games requires your attention, you'll be interested to find out that you can associate various icons to certain notification types. For example, when someone calls you, you'll most likely want to see an icon of a phone popping up on your screen. The notifications themselves pop up in the bottom-right corner of the monitor, and you're able to see them regardless of what you're currently doing, so you won't miss them while working in Windows or playing a game. The stock icons are monochrome, but there are also various icon packs you can buy for a couple of dollars. I'm not a fan of this feature, and I'm even less impressed by the fact that they're trying to charge us 1-2 dollars for silly icons after we already dished out a premium for the monitor.