A short while the wall broke my mobile phone, which was the result of a lapse of momentary rage; it happens. Due to the lack of money to afford an iPhone, I had to go on a bit of a hunt for a cheap phone. Part of me was tempted to re-buy the phone I had, but instead I chose the Nokia 2760.
I honestly dislike phones that have a stupid amount of features. When I have a phone I like to have a phone that makes it easy to call and text people, and store information. I’m not bothered about listening to the radio, having a camera or storing MP3s - all of that is functionality for a different device that I’d spend money on to get the quality.
Anyway, the 2760 seemed like a nice phone. It had an appealing battery life, and only set me back about £30 from O2, which was a nice deal. However, after using it for a while it has come to my attention that this phone was clearly manufactured for mentally and physically incapable bastards.
The amount of times I’ll be typing a text, and accidentally hit send or save because of the poor button layout, or I’ll be typing a text message and have to go back and re-type words simply because the software can’t keep up with the speed that I move my thumbs is unbelievable. Perhaps it’s because I type my texts in proper English, and the developers were incapable of forseeing that as a situation that would ever occur in SMS messaging.
Another thing that is really irritating is how it manages to fail at a simple task, such as the address book. A useful feature is to be able to have groups of contacts. I like my address book to be organised, and use it properly, so that contacts have multiple numbers, etc. I also like to use peoples’ full names so that I know exactly which Sam “Sam” could be. Obviously that level of organisation gets a bit messed up when you have contacts such as “Mum” and “Dad” amongst “Andy Williams” and other such people, so naturally you should be able to create a group of contacts. However, instead of simply having a group within your address book where you can store more contacts, the contacts have to exist in the address book and in the group, which practically renders organisation completely pointless.
I really don’t understand how a team of developers and engineers can work so hard on a product that is supposed to be simple to use and understand, and fail so hard. Why do these people come across as so detached from how people really are, and how they behave. Why are they so incapable of producing a product that is actually simple to use?
Fail.
my son will also text with full words…i don’t, don’t have the time. but yes, for basic texting and calling things would be easier to use with proper button placement…and an address book that’s hard to use, i would never survive. i have a pda myself, but i do do more than text and call.
Hmmm. Who would be alongside me in my group?
I have quite a few of your friend’s numbers in my phone and I wanted them all together for easy access. The only thing I could think of doing was starting their name with a ‘z’. So I have zsean, ztallis, zfatherchristmas etc. It’s not a perfect solution but it helps.
Ciara - I actually find it a lot slower to type or text in shorthand, or what ever you want to call it. I have to think a lot more about what I’m saying and what I am trying to say. It’s quicker for me to just type it properly, with apostrophes and everything.
MU - Alongside you would be Nan, Granddad, Dad, Steve, etc. in a group called “Family”. Instead of having a group for it I just have everyone in my family with “Family” in front of their contact name, so it reads “Family Mum”, “Family Dad”, etc.