XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On 13 Apr 2017 18:43:05 GMT, Frank Slootweg    
   wrote:   
      
   >Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >> On 2017-04-13 10:24, Bob Henson wrote:   
   >> > On 12/04/2017 11:23 pm, VanguardLH wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> Not knowing how to answer a call is just whining about being   
   >> >> inexperienced with whatever app is used to accept a call.   
   >> >   
   >> > Not if that information is not available anywhere - it isn't whining,   
   >> > it's a legitimate complaint about stupid design. There is no point   
   >> > saying "buy a different phone" either - there is no way one can allow   
   >> > for stupid design before buying the phone. By the time you have got it,   
   >> > it's too late. My other phone dialling "bête noire" (and many others,   
   >> > judging by the online complaints) is the contact interface on my phone   
   >> > that will not find a partial number out of several hundred numbers in   
   >> > the list - similar stupidity on the part of the designers.   
   >>   
   >> The design is correct. You have to slide the button instead of pressing   
   >> it, because you can easily press the button accidentally, even inside   
   >> your pocket. It is rare to slide the button accidentally.   
   >   
   >  Nope, the design is not "correct", as many have said, it's *stupid*.   
   >   
   >  Any 9 dollar 'dumb' phone tells you what to do when it rings, but a   
   >100-900 dollar smart-phone can't be bothered to do the same and that's   
   >"correct design"!?   
   >   
   >> What is incorrect is the absence of instruction booklet; and when it   
   >> does exist, it doesn't explain these things, that are unique to touch   
   >> screen phones.   
   >   
   >  The absence of (real) documentation is yet another problem. But if the   
   >UI design is done well, there's less need for documentation.   
      
   The very first cell phone I had, a real el cheapo, no camera, caps   
   only SMS, had a 70-page instruction manual.   
      
   The most recent one had a manual that didn't even tell you how to   
   answer the phone.   
      
   And today another thing came up -- I was asked to leave a voice mail   
   message, and it said after leaving your message, press the hash key.   
      
   But there was no hash key on the screen. Maybe there is a way of   
   getting to it. But by the time one has found it, it's probably too   
   late.   
      
      
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