Nick May wrote:
>In Europe, how many hands does it take to open a clamshell phone and
answer a call...?
Usually the same I believe.
Can I also open another "Can of Worms" on this Nokia Vs Other Handset
Manufactures Debate:
USABILITY: Nokia usability is far, far superior to any other handset in
Europe. Simple straightforward click to send message , find a contact name,
even browse WAP. It is of course all relative but other handsets in
particular Sharp, Panasonic and Motorola are almost unusable.
For example Motorola V525 has the red and green keys the opposite way around
(i.e. Right- Left as opposed to Left -Right) to all other phones. Please
why? Only possible explanation is arrogance.
Try these simple tests:
1. Give a Sharp GX-10 to someone who has never used and ask them to find
address book.
2. Similarly with Panasonic ask new user to send a text message with a digit
in the text.
3. With Motorola V525 ask user to pick up a call.
Hours of fun and hilarious entertainment for all as your friend is
frustrated and tears their hair out.
Nokia Series 40 GUI is the De Facto standard I am afraid. SE T610 pretty
good too I think. Half the problem is that all the other handsets are
different, particularly when it comes to text entry mode - how to select
upper case, turn off T9 etc.
Only 3 possible reasons I can think of for this:
1. On Japanese handsets problem is particularly bad, perhaps due to historic
link with kana / kanji input methods.
2. Nokia have the standard GUI but the other manufacturers are too proud to
deploy the same method
3. Or else they are worried about infringing some Nokia IP.
John W
John
Received on Thu Apr 22 19:56:20 2004