Nokia Stupidity #1: Email application
Now, normally I dont like to critisise, LOOOL, oh wait, screw that lets just get on with it.
Nokia Email. Why? I mean, what did I do to you? You *seem* like a respectable application, I mean, Nokia should know how to build an application for a mobile phone, it’s not like they just started yesterday. ALTHOUGH YOU WOULDN’T REALISE IT.
If you dont know what this seemingly great application is, you can go here and download a copy:
http://email.nokia.com
Can someone please explain me who the fuck decided to make the “c” key (on nokia, this is the delete key) delete my email account. This sounds like a normal thing to do, a delete key, that deletes things. But you see, nokia doesnt realise that on SOME mobile phones, the c key is VERRRRRRRY easy to press, I mean, incredibly easy, it’s hard to explain, you think that getting out of bed and putting trousers on without falling through a plate glass window, impaling yourself on a shard of broken glass, falling over the balcony onto some electrical cabling that has no plastic sheilding and getting electrocuted is easy, but thats nothing compared to how easy pressing that little “c” button is.
So what happens when you put your phone in your pocket after checking your email? SOMETIMES, you bend down, your car keys push against the plastic of the phone in your pocket and SOMETIMES, that happens to be a button. So now, you just clicked the delete key, without knowing it. Hmmmm, problem step 1.
Step 2 comes in the form that it asks you a question, just to make sure you dont want to do something stupid, I mean, like, errr, deleteing your email account from the application losing all your stored emails. Something like that.
Are you sure you want to delete <email account> Y/N
Normally I would hesistate at this question and select N, cause, normally I dont ask my car keys to stop pressing buttons on my phone. I normally assume that one of the most easily pressed keys on my phone, is normally the one that gets pressed and has such a destructive power, it’s kept under control, like
Are you sure you want to delete <email account> Type: supercalorfragilisticexpialadocious
Might be a better choice. But I digress, after the car keys in my pocket decided to delete my email, the phone asks me am I sure. Of course, because the my car keys are making this decision for me, they make the next decision too. Because nokia obviously hasnt a clue how mobile phones are constructed, they happily put the confirm button on the edge of the phone also. So now your car keys push the confirm button.
bye bye email
Nokia, the guy who wrote this software is the most retarded interface designer I ever met, please fire him. Seriously, this guy is fucking retarded, who puts the most important key on a phone on the OUTSIDE of the device, where it can be pushed ALL the time, then who lets this guy sit at a computer long enough to figure out how to use the button in the first place. THEN put whatever he writes on the internet so other people can download it!!!
Words fail me. Nokia, you suck, my next phone will be an iphone, screw you and your retards.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
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