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Jan. 19th, 2006
So far, the new phone (Sony Ericsson K600i) has been working for about 16 hours, 8 of which I was asleep for, and I've already found two bugs. One of which is completely duplicatable and causes the phone to power cycle without completing the requested operation (which is: accept and save a batch of contacts via bluetooth). This means that I'm having to send all my contacts across one at a time, which is fucking tedious. The other bug is that I set a load of shortcut options for the joystick thing last night, and they were working this morning, but then at some point while I was on lunch they got reset to the defaults. This may be related to the frequent crashes caused by me poking at the first bug while I waited for my food to turn up in the restaurant.
More worryingly, I've also run into what appears to me to be a huge hole in the feature-set... there doesn't seem to be any way to save text messages in any useful or organised fashion. I can save 20 (woo!) into a pre-supplied 'saved messages' folder, which is on the SIM, and uh, that's about it. I have to leave all my messages all mixed up in my inbox? I'm really hoping I'm missing something here, because that would be quite astoundingly shit. My phone from 4 years ago (Nokia 6310i) had better SMS features than that.
This aside, the interface is great. It does everything right that the Nokia did wrong (except for having the space key in a weird place :p ), and I can see how it would be a much easier phone to use once I've got used to the way it does things, which shouldn't take too long. However... if I can't create custom folders for my text messages (and save hundreds of them, not 20!), then I don't think I'll be using it for very long at all.
Edit: rang Orange, who said "Doesn't it? Isn't that strange?!". They suggested I ring Sony Ericsson to confirm. Sony Ericsson confirmed. So, I guess I'll send it back to Orange and get another Nokia instead. Told Sony Ericsson this, they didn't seem to care much. I'm still amazed that any modern phone is lacking such a basic feature!
( Also, RH ES4 installer sucks )
Meh.
More worryingly, I've also run into what appears to me to be a huge hole in the feature-set... there doesn't seem to be any way to save text messages in any useful or organised fashion. I can save 20 (woo!) into a pre-supplied 'saved messages' folder, which is on the SIM, and uh, that's about it. I have to leave all my messages all mixed up in my inbox? I'm really hoping I'm missing something here, because that would be quite astoundingly shit. My phone from 4 years ago (Nokia 6310i) had better SMS features than that.
This aside, the interface is great. It does everything right that the Nokia did wrong (except for having the space key in a weird place :p ), and I can see how it would be a much easier phone to use once I've got used to the way it does things, which shouldn't take too long. However... if I can't create custom folders for my text messages (and save hundreds of them, not 20!), then I don't think I'll be using it for very long at all.
Edit: rang Orange, who said "Doesn't it? Isn't that strange?!". They suggested I ring Sony Ericsson to confirm. Sony Ericsson confirmed. So, I guess I'll send it back to Orange and get another Nokia instead. Told Sony Ericsson this, they didn't seem to care much. I'm still amazed that any modern phone is lacking such a basic feature!
( Also, RH ES4 installer sucks )
Meh.
