I have the N95's little brother, the 6110 Communicator, and I must say, it's by far the worst phone I've ever used. Not by features (absolutely not!) and not by power and quality of the hardware (absolutely not!), but by the absolutely horrendous UI. It's so stupid, so utterly overly complex, it's not even funny. I've had it two weeks, used it thoroughly, and I'm selling it as fast as I can and going back to my two and a half year old SonyEricsson S700i, which takes better pictures, has a better UI, and a completely useless web browser. But it can make calls!
The 6110: - has an icon in "Calendar" with a date on it. You might mistake this big red number for the current date. It's not. It's a static icon. - has oodles of lists. In most of these lists (call log, music, files, ...) 1/4 of the horizontal estate is occupied by a 16x16 icon and a whole lot of whitespace. The title of the file or entry is then written in large bold letters. I've never seen a case where the whole title of the file or entry actually fit on screen (especially not in the music browser). Instead you get, "The Chemical Brot...", "The Chemical Brot...", "The Chemical Brot...", -- you get the point. If you hover over the entry for five seconds, /sometimes/ it scrolls to show the rest of the name.
Okay, I'll stop boring you, but needless to say, it's so troublesome to use you just get mad.
Fernando: I'm talking about *while you're in the app*. iCal's icon always shows the current date as long as the app is open. Nokia Calendar shows the calendar icon throughout the Calendar icon, but it shows an invalid date at all times.
Mike: I'm sorry my strange language offends you. How about actually being on topic instead of personal attacks?
Oh, more about the GPS in the Nokia phones: Sometimes it takes over half an hour for the GPS to find any satellites. Which makes it completely useless.
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I have the N95's little brother, the 6110 Communicator, and I must say, it's by far the worst phone I've ever used. Not by features (absolutely not!) and not by power and quality of the hardware (absolutely not!), but by the absolutely horrendous UI. It's so stupid, so utterly overly complex, it's not even funny. I've had it two weeks, used it thoroughly, and I'm selling it as fast as I can and going back to my two and a half year old SonyEricsson S700i, which takes better pictures, has a better UI, and a completely useless web browser. But it can make calls!
The 6110:
- has an icon in "Calendar" with a date on it. You might mistake this big red number for the current date. It's not. It's a static icon.
- has oodles of lists. In most of these lists (call log, music, files, ...) 1/4 of the horizontal estate is occupied by a 16x16 icon and a whole lot of whitespace. The title of the file or entry is then written in large bold letters. I've never seen a case where the whole title of the file or entry actually fit on screen (especially not in the music browser). Instead you get, "The Chemical Brot...", "The Chemical Brot...", "The Chemical Brot...", -- you get the point. If you hover over the entry for five seconds, /sometimes/ it scrolls to show the rest of the name.
Okay, I'll stop boring you, but needless to say, it's so troublesome to use you just get mad.
Maybe the phone is just disgusted in your crappy taste in music.
About the calendar icon, Mac OS X iCal users don't seem to mind ;)
one has to wonder how long it took you to look up half the words you type in there. "utterly overly complex" really? who the hell talks like that?
Fernando: I'm talking about *while you're in the app*. iCal's icon always shows the current date as long as the app is open. Nokia Calendar shows the calendar icon throughout the Calendar icon, but it shows an invalid date at all times.
Mike: I'm sorry my strange language offends you. How about actually being on topic instead of personal attacks?
Oh, more about the GPS in the Nokia phones: Sometimes it takes over half an hour for the GPS to find any satellites. Which makes it completely useless.
*throughout the Calendar app, of course...