From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I've downgraded my phone. I used to have communicators, such as the Nokia
9300, or other high-end models, but I've grown to dislike them. They're
heavy, bulky, and generally not as good as a phone as some of the simpler
models. I also found that while at first all the doodahs (calendar,
browser, extra apps etc) were very cool, eventually I just stopped using
them because I carry a laptop around often enough that it made no sense
using sucky versions of the real apps on a  device that was slow and clumsy
to use.

Currently I have this model:
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=341 . I get looked at funny
because of it sometimes, but it's a damn good phone with nothing extra on
it; excellent battery life; super easy to use and I can even open a beer
bottle with it!

IMO, the general design flaw is that a phone is a phone is a phone, so
adding every single bell and whistle in it just makes it less of a phone.
The first new feature which I'm interested in is the built-in navigation
(gps + map software) in the N95 model
(http://www.nokia.fi/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_126492), but that's just because I
am a hopeless navigator on my own ;-)


Antti Kurenniemi

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:464fce91$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'd like to have a techie discussion on what to want and avoid in
> cellphones and, more generally, what is wrong in the general philosophy of
> cellphone design.
>
> Do you think any of the cellphone makers stand out as particularly astute
> in UI design?
>
> Do you want more or fewer buttons on your cellphone and which functions
> are critical to have on separate buttons?

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