Nokia Daily News posted this series of suggestions on how to fix the Nokia N-Series.
I will avoid giving Nokia a kicking, since it’s a Tuesday.
I’m trying to keep my stress levels below 90% and allowing myself to think about Nokia for more than 2 minutes will blow my objectives.
I’m just pleased that it’s not just me that thinks Nokia have, generally, being doing a PISS POOR job. It’s not just the N-Series chaps.
Leave it to Nokia Daily News to suggest this shocking, shocking, SHOCKING point:
Pressing Exit/back/back/exit/back eight times to get to the home screen feels very primitive. Get rid of the “symbian†key, because you can’t explain it to someone while providing tech support. Everyone can find a Home key with a picture of a house on it. Do this for all Nokias.
How DARE you.
HOW double-triple DARE you.
Don’t you know that the Nokia UI AND that stupid Symbian key represents the Finnish equivalent of a near-orgasmic level pleasure?
Next point from Nokia Daily News. Software.
I have to say, this is getting a little bit too revolutionary for my comfort.
Have a read.
Make software really easy to install.
Let me stop you there.
How simply DARE you?
Make it easy? What, next you’ll be suggesting you want Nokia to get rid of all those stupid ‘DO YOU WANT TO INSTALL THIS?’ messages.
HERESY! HERETIC!
Sometimes when I’m installing a .sis file, it has other requirements rolled into it, and it keeps asking way-too-many-questions. If I click “install†on my desktop computer, it’s because I want to install the software to my phone. Why does it keep asking all these questions?
Now don’t you dare mention the A word.
Apple doesn’t ask that many questions.
DOH!
Or the other ‘A’ word.
Android installs nicely in the background without asking any other questions, and it doesn’t hog up the foreground with an app while it’s installing.
Gahh.
😉
Excellent points from Nokia Daily News. Head over here if you’d like to read the full list of suggestions all of which I trust will be promptly ignored by the N-Series chaps before being implemented in a huge, huge panic in the third quarter of 2015 when no one’s bothered to buy the new N98 that looks substantially the same as the N97 with a nice new pattern on the back of the battery cover.
Right. My Nokia stress levels already approaching 90%. Over and out.
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Here's my take. Matt (from Nokia Daily News) linked to it in his post, but since you didn't 🙂
http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/thoughts…
A couple of points:
i) You can already get back to the home screen on an N-series phone by pressing the red key.
ii) The Symbian button has already been replaced by a home button on the E-series phones.
I totally agree with you on the software install front. It needs to be easier. Infact, a lot of dialogs in S60 in general should be removed.
It's not all fun and games on Android though – a lot of people are complaining that you can only install software to the megre main drive on the G1. That space quickly runs out.
Yeah, shame this article is coloured (like so many MIR pieces) by blinkered opinion with a small pinch of arrogance 😉 – rather than simple fact, and a recognition that your opinion may be in a minority (of course, it may not).
As a developer with high standards I am exceptionally intolerant of technology. That's why my blood boils every time I have to use Microsoft (anything). And yet, I never find myself the slightest bit perturbed by Nokia based installs. Of course they're not perfect, but they always seem to work without any fuss, and really I don't mind a couple of confirmation clicks – and nor should any reasonable balanced person I'd say 😉
And hitting every back and exit from a multi-level menu or app is just bonkers. Most of the known world just hits the end call key, with the same effect. I mean seriously – is that so difficult?
Please go on laying into Nokia when they deserve it – it's how things get changed (provided it's constructive). But also be aware that half the time you're just getting your knickers in a twist about not very much at all.
As for Android, I've done professional writeups on it and attended the developer days etc. It is a lovely architecture from a developer's point of view. But right now, the hardware it's deployed on is utter crap (HTC – no surprise), and it's on 0.0000000001% (or something) of deployed handsets compared to Nokias (for example). When it has significant deployed numbers (prefarably on good handsets), then I might give it some time.
G1 != Android though
Units sold is irrelevant when talking about user experience – it will take several years for Nokia's more recent rivals (such as Android) to catch up, of course. But the point is that, out of the gate, Android addresses a number of the serious usability failings that have been present on S60 for years.
I agree the 'back to homescreen' is pretty trivial, but awful connection point management, a lousy browser and inconsistent menu and settings layout have been present for several years…
Alex,
I agree that the Red Key is the fastest way to get “home” I've been told that by a few folks after reading this article. It's nice to know, but it took me three years of daily Nokia use to discover. Does that make me stupid? Or does that make S60 unintuitive? How much training does the home key on an iPhone or G1 require? None. I'm asking Nokia to bring the Home button from the E-Series devices to all Nokia devices, because I agree that it makes more sense.
When I say I like the Android installer, I'm talking about Android as an OS, not the G1 implementation. I don't think the G1 is a bad device, but I think Android on a nicer handset would be even better. S60 might have been three years ago, but now there's the iPhone and Android to compare S60 to. The old S60 standards disappoint by comparison.
That said, I want the highest-end features, so I'm sticking with Nokia N-Series devices. I can't wait for the N97.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment!
-matthew-
Alex,
I agree that the Red Key is the fastest way to get “home” I've been told that by a few folks after authoring this article. It's nice to know, but it took me three years of daily Nokia use to discover. Does that make me stupid? Or does that make S60 unintuitive? How much training does the home key on an iPhone or G1 require? None. I'm asking Nokia to bring the Home button from the E-Series devices to all Nokia devices, because I agree that it makes more sense.
When I say I like the Android installer, I'm talking about Android as an OS, not the G1 implementation. I don't think the G1 is a bad device, but I think Android on a nicer handset would be even better. S60 might have been three years ago, but now there's the iPhone and Android to compare S60 to. The old S60 standards disappoint by comparison.
That said, I want the highest-end features, so I'm sticking with Nokia N-Series devices. I can't wait for the N97.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment!
-matthew-
thank you;) very much… very good 🙂
thank you;) very much… very good 🙂
thank you;) very much… very good 🙂