Very rarely do I take extreme views of anything, but this is an absurdly ridiculous creation. I am feeling frustrated at having chosen this one over a Nokia phone. There are several small niggles, that taken together add up to a very irritating user experience. They also convey a lack of company research into basic consumer requirements from a phone.
- The FM is good, but there is no one button to shift between preset channels. Pressing left or right in the navigation main key shifts the frequency by 0.1 MHz. why would I want to scan through the entire FM frequency range! To shift between preset channels, you need to keep the left or right key pressed for long.
A terrible waste of default key press action.
-The FM is not operable through the button present on the headset provided along with the phone. With the FM playing, the headset button does NOTHING, nothing at all. If you need to change channels, you need to take out the phone from your pocket, deactivate the keypad lock(which most people usually use), and then use the keypad to change channels. Glaring lack of accessibility of features.
The nice long elliptical button on the headset, has no feature other than to call the last dialled number(it cant even be used to move through contact list) and to recieve/end a call)
In messages menu, the inbox is buried inside submenus. you need to press thrice to access inside your sms inbox
-In typing a message, there is no option of putting T9 dictionary permanently on. You need to click click click to make it on everytime you start typing a message.
Another small point, but makes you so irritated because of the sheer lack of thoughtfulness shown. The’*’ key is designated for shifting between’abc’’123’’Abc’’ABC’ text mode. But on first click of the * key, the mode changes to’123’ rather than’Abc’. This may seem a small thing, but please calculate that in normal SMS usage how many times do you need to insert a number, and how many times do you need to change to a capital letter. What justified putting number mode as first action.
They took care to make even inserting symbols a painful task.The Symbols panel is innovatively laid out, and you can get any symbol in maximum two clicks, but after you select a symbol, EVERYTIME you have to press the top left key to’ok’ and insert it.
"Kya aap confident hain?"(Are you confident of your answer?)
"Kya aap yahi symbol insert karna chahte hain?"(You wish to insert this symbol only?)
"Aapke chosen symbol ko lock kardein insert karne ke liye?"(Should we lock your selected symbol?). come on man, its not a question of millions, just inserting symbols!
The delivery reports come as separate messages. I dont know about other phones, but at least the nokia phones I had so far, had’delivered’ status indicated by a discrete change in icon against the SMS in the’Sent’ folder.
A small rant, but the sent messages are not saved by default. You have to choose to do it everytime.
There is no’Reminders’ feature in the phone. I found it such a handy feature really.
Against all these deficiencies, they have provided the’privilege’ of getting to display two clock times on screen at a time, meaning e.g. you can see your current time and another city’s time simultaneously. No nitpicking the feature, but how many of non-business users will really be needing this feature, in whats meant to be a basic color-screen phone really.
Phew, a long mail. Will add to it as and when required. I am ready to admit any feature which I may have missed/ incorrectly stated about, if pointed out.
Take solace from one fact at least in the entire bitter experience. This was my first non Nokia phone in six years of being a cellphone user. Reinforces the belief "look everywhere, see everything. and then go buy a Nokia"!
From now on its Nokia only.