On 2007-11-30 18:13:35 +0000,
peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:
> Sarah Brown <sarahlizzy@ntlworld.no_uce_please.com> wrote:
>
>>> Until recently, Nokias had a brilliantly simple and consistent user
>>> interface. Then they went through a rotten patch, but it seems to be
>>> getting better.
>>
>> This seems to be recieved wisodm, but I always found them really
>> fiddly and unintuitive
>
> All the cell phones I have used extensively have been Nokias; I have
> always found their UI to be pretty simple and logical, certainly
> compared to any others (like the phones my daughters use) which aren't
> Nokias but instinctively I have suppressed the brand name involved, in
> the way that the brain suppresses bad experiences.
>
> But *my* Nokia is an 1100, which has the infinite virtue of being just a
> phone, so things are pretty minimalist.
I think you need to distinguish the (useable, but painful) Nokia
interface on dumb phones like the 1100, from the completely different
ones they provide on S60 "smart" phones.
Cheers,
Chris