On 3/30/08, clare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have looked at one or two of these lately, and there are changes. For > example someone has been playing about with the keyboard so that > it will do upper and lower case and numbers, but not yet things people > might want like / and control characters. > > I am umimpressed, because my current phone actually supplies a qwerty > keyboard for SMS, I have Never had to use that silly thumb typing. > But now there is an even more annoying improvement - when I type 0 > into the dialer it gives me a list of all the names in my contacts list > which start with zero. Luckily I have not put in the full list. > Of course if I wanted someone out of contacts I would start there. > > I often think that the features in this phone are put there because > someone thought it was a cute idea. It would be nice if the cute ideas > could be saved for later when the basics were solid. > People could then vote on whether the various cute features were worth > having or better still just configure their phone to remove them.
To me that particular feature is -very useful-. On my Nokia I use that to find a contact to call or SMS with two to three clicks; under Qtopia to find any contact requires scrolling through a long list (much more than two taps!). I agree with your general sentiment though. -Nick
