The U800 Nightmare!
November 4th 2009 01:38
First off, I would like to emphasize that I do not intend to malign techno products, gadgets or brands in my babbling, now or ever.
I like tinkering with these stuffs, though. So, I buy them with certain kind of expectations. I, on the other hand, like many marginal consumers, do not have great resources. Thus, when I check out the gadgets that I so darn believe I cannot live without I am ready to part ways with what, to my mind, is a great deal of money!
And, therefore, since the techno products are being positioned in the market to meet certain kind of needs, of people like me who cannot live without them, I expect them to answer my needs. I am paying for them, right?
Sometimes, however, they don’t. The result is a “babble.” My fervent hope is the products improve.
I’ll start this babbling with one of my latest purchases: a U800. It is a Samsung, bar type cell phone. I like its animated display that changes with the times of the day. It shows a daytime display during the hours that you set as daytime, and it shows a nighttime display during hours that you set as nighttime.
The migrating birds that go from one direction to the other every time you activate the display by pressing a button are cute and it even has pyrotechnic display that goes off and victory fly bys by miniature planes every time you receive a message or a call. They are great to watch and they give an impression of happiness. Love them.
The size of received text messages can be magnified with a press of a button, if you need to, and the phone comes with a 3.0 megapixel camera in its slim body. Unlike other mobile phones this one is a sturdy unit. The case is made of metal and the back cover comes off easily. You can change the battery or the sim anytime (if you buy an open line) without causing any damage.
It has a bluetooth that connects without a hassle to my bluetooth headphone and it took me just a wee bit of a while to connect it to my laptop. No problem.
The keypad takes a little getting used to, but I can live with that.
What I find nightmarish about this phone however is the software that comes with it contained in a cd disc. I have been using this phone for a number of months now and my impression is that the software is either “not” very user friendly (as it took me quite sometime to figure out how to create a new text message on my laptop using the software) or that the software is lacking certain features that are common with other cell phone software (pc suites).
You see, when I’m in the office and I’m doing some office chores I prefer not to be distracted by phones. So, I answer phone calls to my mobile by pressing the hands free bluetooth attached to my ear (I answer the landline by pressing a hands free button too) and I answer text messages using the message editor of my mobile’s pc suite.
I do that all the time with my other mobile phone. It was easier. It shows me the senders name, the message, and with a click of the mouse on the reply button I can rattle off a few words and the message is sent with another click of the mouse.
The problem comes when the message is sent to my Samsung U800. It has a pc suite, alright. It has a message editor, a reply button, just like the other pc suites and I can do almost practically everything with it, except tell who the messages I am receiving are from!
Can you imagine that? You are deep into something and, suddenly, you received a text message that tells you something else and you cannot tell who it is from! Dang! Sure, it tells you the number of the sender’s mobile phone, but I have close to a thousand names in my phonebook. Come, on!
Hey, a U800 is supposed to be a business phone. You put the phone numbers of your business contacts in there. You want a lot of them and you want them all in one place. It would help if your unit can tell you who it is that is calling your attention while you are lost in some documents that some demigod wanted to have yesterday - but just told you about it now!
And while we’re at it, an inbox that can only accommodate 150 messages seems rather puny if you have phonebook entries that are close to a thousand.
I mean, when did you have a contact that sent you only one important message that you want to keep for a while in your inbox?
And please, allow me to write and read a text message that is as long as I, or my senders, wanted to write or send.
It’s like, why tell me that the message I just received is an image that needed to be viewed on the phone (which means, I have to close the software and disconnect the phone so I can view the image manually on the phone) when it is just a text message that is longer than 160 characters?
Uhhh, it sucks!
I like tinkering with these stuffs, though. So, I buy them with certain kind of expectations. I, on the other hand, like many marginal consumers, do not have great resources. Thus, when I check out the gadgets that I so darn believe I cannot live without I am ready to part ways with what, to my mind, is a great deal of money!
And, therefore, since the techno products are being positioned in the market to meet certain kind of needs, of people like me who cannot live without them, I expect them to answer my needs. I am paying for them, right?
Sometimes, however, they don’t. The result is a “babble.” My fervent hope is the products improve.
I’ll start this babbling with one of my latest purchases: a U800. It is a Samsung, bar type cell phone. I like its animated display that changes with the times of the day. It shows a daytime display during the hours that you set as daytime, and it shows a nighttime display during hours that you set as nighttime.
The migrating birds that go from one direction to the other every time you activate the display by pressing a button are cute and it even has pyrotechnic display that goes off and victory fly bys by miniature planes every time you receive a message or a call. They are great to watch and they give an impression of happiness. Love them.
The size of received text messages can be magnified with a press of a button, if you need to, and the phone comes with a 3.0 megapixel camera in its slim body. Unlike other mobile phones this one is a sturdy unit. The case is made of metal and the back cover comes off easily. You can change the battery or the sim anytime (if you buy an open line) without causing any damage.
It has a bluetooth that connects without a hassle to my bluetooth headphone and it took me just a wee bit of a while to connect it to my laptop. No problem.
The keypad takes a little getting used to, but I can live with that.
What I find nightmarish about this phone however is the software that comes with it contained in a cd disc. I have been using this phone for a number of months now and my impression is that the software is either “not” very user friendly (as it took me quite sometime to figure out how to create a new text message on my laptop using the software) or that the software is lacking certain features that are common with other cell phone software (pc suites).
You see, when I’m in the office and I’m doing some office chores I prefer not to be distracted by phones. So, I answer phone calls to my mobile by pressing the hands free bluetooth attached to my ear (I answer the landline by pressing a hands free button too) and I answer text messages using the message editor of my mobile’s pc suite.
I do that all the time with my other mobile phone. It was easier. It shows me the senders name, the message, and with a click of the mouse on the reply button I can rattle off a few words and the message is sent with another click of the mouse.
The problem comes when the message is sent to my Samsung U800. It has a pc suite, alright. It has a message editor, a reply button, just like the other pc suites and I can do almost practically everything with it, except tell who the messages I am receiving are from!
Can you imagine that? You are deep into something and, suddenly, you received a text message that tells you something else and you cannot tell who it is from! Dang! Sure, it tells you the number of the sender’s mobile phone, but I have close to a thousand names in my phonebook. Come, on!
Hey, a U800 is supposed to be a business phone. You put the phone numbers of your business contacts in there. You want a lot of them and you want them all in one place. It would help if your unit can tell you who it is that is calling your attention while you are lost in some documents that some demigod wanted to have yesterday - but just told you about it now!
And while we’re at it, an inbox that can only accommodate 150 messages seems rather puny if you have phonebook entries that are close to a thousand.
I mean, when did you have a contact that sent you only one important message that you want to keep for a while in your inbox?
And please, allow me to write and read a text message that is as long as I, or my senders, wanted to write or send.
It’s like, why tell me that the message I just received is an image that needed to be viewed on the phone (which means, I have to close the software and disconnect the phone so I can view the image manually on the phone) when it is just a text message that is longer than 160 characters?
Uhhh, it sucks!
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