[73834] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT- need a new GSM provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Mon Sep 6 06:06:47 2004
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Paul Vixie" <paul@vix.com>, "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:05:43 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
> besides which, i hated the phone. i couldn't get it out of my
> pocket without hitting the voice-call button. the asynchronous
> nature of the java-based UI meant that the softkeys often changed
> what they meant while i was trying to press one. what a total
> piece of garbage.
Yep, also hated here. The law of least astonishment should be a real law,
with criminal penalties for those designers who break it - or for negligence
if they provide facilities for others to break it.
I typicaly use (in the UK) an older Nokia, B&W screen, normal buttons, long
battery life - while everyone appears to be over tempted by the new "soft"
phones, with colour, cameras, music etc. Battery life is crap, they take
seconds to do anything and some of the keyboard layouts... let's not even go
there.
Peter
