On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:27:33 +0100, Mike Mitchell
wrote:



I've already spent a fortune just in the past few hours mucking about
with it and doing test dials to my fixed line (BT) phone.

This gadget must be the most functionally perverse, arcane and
unintuitive piece of kit I have ever acquired, and I speak as one who
has six computers and three hundred computer books. The user guide
(the long version) is useless at answering the questions I have. So is
the Siemens website. I have already called the Virgin Mobile help desk
twice, They were still very friendly and helpful. But this phone's
functional design is terrible. It looks neat, sure. But if we think
setting up a video is hard (and I don't, particularly), this phone's
complex menu system is like trying to fix the Hubble telescope with a
robotic arm on the top of Everest. As for the rocker-type
multifunction buttons (press the right-hand end or the left-hand end),
well, I am just flabbergasted that the designers thought these were a
useful feature.

There's one fundamental point that you are missing and that is that
you are more than 8 years old. ......




At least I have found out how to (a) make a call, (b) leave a
voicemail, (c) retrieve a voicemail, and (d) set the ring tone. If
they can produce a phone like this with all the bells and whistles I
do not want for £39.99 all in, imagine how cheaply they could produce
a far more basic version with the extras removed.

MM

..andy

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