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Re: iPhone in the UK is a major bad Apple!
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| Peter Ceresole 2007-11-30, 12:33 pm |
| Sarah Brown <sarahlizzy@ntlworld.no_uce_please.com> wrote:
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> This seems to be recieved wisodm, but I always found them really
> fiddly and unintuitive
All the cell phones I have used extensively have been Nokias; I have
always found their UI to be pretty simple and logical, certainly
compared to any others (like the phones my daughters use) which aren't
Nokias but instinctively I have suppressed the brand name involved, in
the way that the brain suppresses bad experiences.
But *my* Nokia is an 1100, which has the infinite virtue of being just a
phone, so things are pretty minimalist.
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Peter
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| Sarah Brown 2007-11-30, 10:33 pm |
| In article <1i8ekce. 17hruvu1jvi5l2N%pete
r@cara.demon.co.uk>,
Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Sarah Brown <sarahlizzy@ntlworld.no_uce_please.com> wrote:
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>All the cell phones I have used extensively have been Nokias; I have
>always found their UI to be pretty simple and logical, certainly
>compared to any others (like the phones my daughters use) which aren't
>Nokias but instinctively I have suppressed the brand name involved, in
>the way that the brain suppresses bad experiences.
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>But *my* Nokia is an 1100, which has the infinite virtue of being just a
>phone, so things are pretty minimalist.
It's teh phone functions I findn the most convoluted. Previously my
phones were all Ericssons or Sony Ericssons. They either had a button
to call and a button to hang up, or just one button that started and
ended a call. In addition, there was a "menu" button. The call button
- marked "OK" on recent phones, worked in much the same way the left
or single mouse button does on Macs - it's the "do it" button
througout the phone UI.
My Nokia replaces this arrangement with a cluster of five buttons,
with up to all of them becoming slightly different variartions on "do
it" at different points in time. If I want to call someone, I have a
choice of buttons to press - one will just call the number, others
will ask me if I want to make a voice or video call, etc.. Two of the
buttons seem to swap functions between "menu" and "do it" depending on
what mode the phone is in. Sometimes none of the five buttons do
anything useful, and I have to use the * and # buttons on the keypad
to accomplish auxillary functions.
Frankly, it's a mess. I'm getting to the stage when I'm learning what
to press and when now, but it all seems needlessly complicated. This
doesn't see,m to be a problem with recent phones either - my partner
has always been a Nokia person and whenever I've tried to use her
phones in the past, right back to the design classic 5110, the UI has
felt much the same - functions too spread out amongst too many
nameless buttons all doing subtly different things.
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| Sarah Brown 2007-11-30, 10:33 pm |
| In article <5rb39tF13mhcmU1@mid.individual.net>,
Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
>On 2007-11-30 18:13:35 +0000, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:
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>I think you need to distinguish the (useable, but painful) Nokia
>interface on dumb phones like the 1100, from the completely different
>ones they provide on S60 "smart" phones.
Mine is a S60 phone, to which I've migrated from a UIQ phone which I
think, has spoiled me with probably the nicest UI I've ever used on a
phone by a long way (especially with the scrollwheel).
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