While I appreciate my E50, some things just make you relaise why Apple feels that they can make a success of it in the mobile phone business. The "Notes" application and the implementation of notes in various portions of the S60 PIM is one example of this.
In the E50, you cannot simply "view" a note, you have to click into "edit" it to see the contents at all. Its an overly large font, not very readable, poor use of the screen and the phone numbers/e-mails cannot be clicked to use them.
However......while editing a note, if you click in to "Options", then "Find", then "phone number" or "email address" ......VOILA!! You see the notes in a crisp BEAUTIFUL font like you wanted to in the first place, and each phone number or e-mail is live, in other words you can click into it and it calls or opens the message function.
By the way,even the UIQ3 phones eg Sony M600i, show you Notes in this live mode automatically.
Then you ask yourself: "Why on earth is this NOT the default mode of the Notes program". Or at least why can you not have an option to pick either edit or view as your default mode? And despite all this, you cant move from note to note in this live view, you have to back out and go through the same ordeal again.
And this is also true in the notes field of your contacts, calendar and all - you dont have this live view. Why? Surely that is where you need it?
This E series are business phones - surely this would qualify as a value to busines users to be able to just click and call from their notes?
The same is true if you start from the Phone search tool, find a note and the click to view it. You get the ugly "edit" view.
Nokia has some good qualities, at least compared to other phone companies (**cough, cough, SE UIQ3, WMobile**) but still IMO for a consumer device company they dont pay enough attention to ergonomics.
This thing with the Notes is egregious because they have actually deveoped the correct function and then for some peverted reason, they turned it off?
But this is the sort of thing that Apple feasts on. They take a simple set of things and make the user experience seamless. IMO this first "iphone" is overpriced, overphyped and far too closed for my liking. But the thing about Apple is that they will just do that small bit, learn and just keep coming with more. Unlike Nokia, they generally pay immense attention to ergonmics and ease of use - and they learn.
And mind you this is just one gripe on "Notes". If Apple can make this type of improvment on other functions , well, you can see how this will go.
If all the phone companies stocks have tanked this week, that is why. Its not that the iPhone 1G is great - it is that Apple has their sights targeted on this business - and the incumbents are quite beatable by a company with Apple's ability to get to heart of the matter on ergonomics.
In the E50, you cannot simply "view" a note, you have to click into "edit" it to see the contents at all. Its an overly large font, not very readable, poor use of the screen and the phone numbers/e-mails cannot be clicked to use them.
However......while editing a note, if you click in to "Options", then "Find", then "phone number" or "email address" ......VOILA!! You see the notes in a crisp BEAUTIFUL font like you wanted to in the first place, and each phone number or e-mail is live, in other words you can click into it and it calls or opens the message function.
By the way,even the UIQ3 phones eg Sony M600i, show you Notes in this live mode automatically.
Then you ask yourself: "Why on earth is this NOT the default mode of the Notes program". Or at least why can you not have an option to pick either edit or view as your default mode? And despite all this, you cant move from note to note in this live view, you have to back out and go through the same ordeal again.
And this is also true in the notes field of your contacts, calendar and all - you dont have this live view. Why? Surely that is where you need it?
This E series are business phones - surely this would qualify as a value to busines users to be able to just click and call from their notes?
The same is true if you start from the Phone search tool, find a note and the click to view it. You get the ugly "edit" view.
Nokia has some good qualities, at least compared to other phone companies (**cough, cough, SE UIQ3, WMobile**) but still IMO for a consumer device company they dont pay enough attention to ergonomics.
This thing with the Notes is egregious because they have actually deveoped the correct function and then for some peverted reason, they turned it off?
But this is the sort of thing that Apple feasts on. They take a simple set of things and make the user experience seamless. IMO this first "iphone" is overpriced, overphyped and far too closed for my liking. But the thing about Apple is that they will just do that small bit, learn and just keep coming with more. Unlike Nokia, they generally pay immense attention to ergonmics and ease of use - and they learn.
And mind you this is just one gripe on "Notes". If Apple can make this type of improvment on other functions , well, you can see how this will go.
If all the phone companies stocks have tanked this week, that is why. Its not that the iPhone 1G is great - it is that Apple has their sights targeted on this business - and the incumbents are quite beatable by a company with Apple's ability to get to heart of the matter on ergonomics.