silly Samsung phone
Mar. 23rd, 2009 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslOn Thursday (or earlier), my phone replaced all its sounds with a discrete raindrop sound. This has caused problems, including not picking up the phone and missing my morning alarm.
But now I fixed it. The "raindrop sound" seems to be a special "volume", below the lowest volume... now, all the original sounds seem to be back.
If you're teaching an HCI class and want to illustrate bad design, the Samsung cellphone a very rich example. (I would give a model number, but not too surprisingly, they make this hard to find out)
Other issues include:
* haphazard capitalization in text messages (UPDATE: this issue has disappeared)
* sticky Num lock, Fn
* losing your text message (or any unsaved info) when you close the phone
* an inability to answer the phone normally when it's in horizontal mode (since switching to vertical involves hanging up)
* it encourages you to create appointments at random times
* Address Book: inability to create an entry who has no phone number or email; it does not allow "gustavo@gmail": it refuses to save your entry.
* Camera and Pictures are in separate sections
* it has unremovable icons for WindowsLive and MediaPlayer, which are paid services.
* when you turn off the phone (say, because a lecture has begun), it plays a little tune (mercifully, this can be disabled)
But now I fixed it. The "raindrop sound" seems to be a special "volume", below the lowest volume... now, all the original sounds seem to be back.
If you're teaching an HCI class and want to illustrate bad design, the Samsung cellphone a very rich example. (I would give a model number, but not too surprisingly, they make this hard to find out)
Other issues include:
* haphazard capitalization in text messages (UPDATE: this issue has disappeared)
* sticky Num lock, Fn
* losing your text message (or any unsaved info) when you close the phone
* an inability to answer the phone normally when it's in horizontal mode (since switching to vertical involves hanging up)
* it encourages you to create appointments at random times
* Address Book: inability to create an entry who has no phone number or email; it does not allow "gustavo@gmail": it refuses to save your entry.
* Camera and Pictures are in separate sections
* it has unremovable icons for WindowsLive and MediaPlayer, which are paid services.
* when you turn off the phone (say, because a lecture has begun), it plays a little tune (mercifully, this can be disabled)