Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Poor user interface on the T68i
(I'm posting this using the Blogger website from my H5550 over WiFi. I have to say "WiFi" now instead of "wireless", since on my last trip to the States I finally realised that the latter term is used there to refer to mobile phone (GSM, GPRS, etc.) technology.)
I've been waiting since February for O2 to get in some T630s so I can upgrade, but no luck. They wouldn't even give me a temporary T610, which I could return when the T630s came in. Oh well.
In the meantime, using the T68i has its annoyances. For example, auto-keylock is a must if you want to avoid making unintentional calls all the time. And yet, how do you unlock the phone? By hitting the delete key, and then the confirm key. (See where I'm going with this?)
So, alout a million times a day, you take your phone out of your pocket and hit "delete-yes" automatically. Which leads to a nasty side effect when combined with another T68i quirk: if you are looking at an SMS message, or a picture, then autolock does not come on, no matter how long you wait. So what happens
to me frequently enough to be annoying, but not frequently enough for me to unlearn my habits, is this: l look at an SMS message, get distracted by something for 5 minutes, come back to my phone and unintentionally delete the message, which I probably hadn't read yet, or it wouldn't have still been ''active". Ugh.
Designers, please: never use the "delete-confirm" sequence for any other functionality!
(Oops. Can't post this by WiFi now, as battery is too weak. Another use for AvantBlog!)
From the University of Skövde
(I'm posting this using the Blogger website from my H5550 over WiFi. I have to say "WiFi" now instead of "wireless", since on my last trip to the States I finally realised that the latter term is used there to refer to mobile phone (GSM, GPRS, etc.) technology.)
I've been waiting since February for O2 to get in some T630s so I can upgrade, but no luck. They wouldn't even give me a temporary T610, which I could return when the T630s came in. Oh well.
In the meantime, using the T68i has its annoyances. For example, auto-keylock is a must if you want to avoid making unintentional calls all the time. And yet, how do you unlock the phone? By hitting the delete key, and then the confirm key. (See where I'm going with this?)
So, alout a million times a day, you take your phone out of your pocket and hit "delete-yes" automatically. Which leads to a nasty side effect when combined with another T68i quirk: if you are looking at an SMS message, or a picture, then autolock does not come on, no matter how long you wait. So what happens
to me frequently enough to be annoying, but not frequently enough for me to unlearn my habits, is this: l look at an SMS message, get distracted by something for 5 minutes, come back to my phone and unintentionally delete the message, which I probably hadn't read yet, or it wouldn't have still been ''active". Ugh.
Designers, please: never use the "delete-confirm" sequence for any other functionality!
(Oops. Can't post this by WiFi now, as battery is too weak. Another use for AvantBlog!)
From the University of Skövde
