It occurred to me the other day that I tend to do the same set of things every time I get a new mobile, and since I do that at least once a year (hey I’m a geek) I thought I would relate. I can’t be the only one who does it, right?
- Spend 10 mins finding where the fuck all the functions are in the menus, and bemoaning the fact that for the majority of mobile phone manufactures, creating a USEABLE and LOGICAL UI is a complete and utter mystery.
- Discover that all the games shipped as standard are wank
- Wonder briefly why everyone hasn’t gotten together to figure out a standard format for storage of addressbook entries. As opposed to appending random characters to the name.
- Spend tedious hour teaching the T9 text entry to spell things like fuck, and shit, and bastard, and cuntbubble. To be fair this isn’t something you usually do in one go, oh no, its something you do every time you send a text for the first 6 months, getting increasingly infuriated with the spacky method of adding entries to the dictionary.
- Spend 10 mins trying to reassign the pointless “connect to the internet” button that is invariably placed right where a the “create new text message” button ought to be, but isnt.
- Seriously consider going back to using your old phone, not because its better but because you are at least familliar with the shitty UI on the old one.
There will be more, I just cant be arsed to type any more, what about you lot?
It takes me about nine months to get used to a phone’s menus and key placements. By that time it’s battered and old-fashioned and time to get a new one.
Text messaging should be avoided whenever possible, but you are quite right about the “connect to the internet” button. It needs prising off with a screwdriver.
I want an iphone.