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Smutmaster General
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I feel quite techy now, cos I know what an accelerometer is, and that mine ain't working properly.
Mr Pig said:Well yes. Or I could ask someone else what my number is or...
Don't you get it? It's not that it's impossible to find the number it's that it is a lot harder and less intuitive than it should be.
For sixty-years your telephone had a little card on the front with your telephone number written on it. Logical and obvious. Now, thanks to 'progress' you need a black belt in sudoku to figure out how to find it!
I do blame the nerds. It's just like the classic situation with video recorders when they first came out. The things could record TV shows months away, but none of them ever did because the twats who designed them gave zero thought to usability. Most were covered in rows of tiny buttons which looked identical and had to be pressed in some complex secret order before the machine would comply with your wishes. Although one could never be one-hundred percent sure it actually would, so most people gave up and just got someone else to press the red button at the correct time in their absence.
And nothing has changed. Have you seen the idiot menus in many modern cars? If I wanted to change which vents the air was coming out of I used to grab a knob and turn it to the correct position, which I could do without even looking at it. Now I have to press a button numerous times whilst peering at a tiny LCD display as it scrolls through a menu until I get to the vents I want.
Sure, let the nerds invent stuff. They seem good at it, but please get a normal human being in to do the bit we interact with.
Pushing tin said:if i can't use the basic functions of an everyday product without looking at instructions then I feel there is a problem
mr Mag00 said:i have it in the phonebook on the phone as 'me'
Night Train said:I do wish everyone would put their number under AAAA then they would phone themselves instead of me![]()
ColinJ said:I don't like mobile phones but I do have a very cheap 'n cheerful Sagem My-X2 which I carry on long rides. (The rest of the time its only function is as my alarm clock!)
I've searched everywhere and I can't find a way of adding a number to its phonebook when someone calls me for the first time. I have to write their number down, then type it in on a different page.
There surely must be a way to 'Add this number to phonebook' but I can't find it!![]()
eel said:*#100# send gets you your no. on vodafone