silly Samsung phone
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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)
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Date: 2009-03-25 02:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-26 03:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-26 03:09 am (UTC)when you turn off the phone (say, because a lecture has begun), it plays a little tune (mercifully, this can be disabled)
What the hell? Yes, because when people are turning off their phones, they usually want to make noise and draw attention to themselves!
What I dislike about cell phones is you can't tell the time when you are talking on it! (At least not with any phone I have seen.) The screen that displays the time goes dark after a few seconds, and in order to light it up and see the time, you have to flip the top, which hangs up your call!
I think all cell phones seem to have major flaws.
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Date: 2009-07-23 11:08 am (UTC)unlocked (http://www.mobileunlocksolutions.com/) samsung phone