Yeah... how many RAZRs I wore out... I wish I had THAT money back.
mnem
*mnemories*
the 521 was designed BY A PHONE MANUFACTURER, so everything about it was very clearly a phone FIRST
and an internet gadget second. Nokia seriously knew their shit when it came to making an intuitive UI on a phone.
and the intuitiveness of their active tiles implementation was something that other phones are JUST NOW approaching 5 years later.
Really, EVERYBODY designing phone UIs RIGHT NOW could learn a SHITLOAD about how to do their craft PROPERLY by living with a Nokia 521 for a week.
the 521 was designed BY A PHONE MANUFACTURER, so everything about it was very clearly a phone FIRSTphone manufacturer who cant keep up when android phones came and then later fucked up by microsoft win8.and an internet gadget second. Nokia seriously knew their shit when it came to making an intuitive UI on a phone.intuitive what? its Microsoft Win8 GUI, exact copy of PC version, except its worse, paler and has to deal with small screen.and the intuitiveness of their active tiles implementation was something that other phones are JUST NOW approaching 5 years later.maybe you mixed up win8 521s with earlier symbian version of nokia bricks? nobody wants to copy Win8 GUI not even closer. i dont want to remember how i cursed how useless it is, the most useless Microsoft product ever.Really, EVERYBODY designing phone UIs RIGHT NOW could learn a SHITLOAD about how to do their craft PROPERLY by living with a Nokia 521 for a week.just look again how hillarious it was... mario bros nintendo is much better... RIP nokia...
well, maybe just talking on the aesthetics side, but seriously, there's nothing wrong with logical order in samsung android GUI granted there's crap brands that didnt implement the "favourite apps taskbar" that is fixed on the screen when we swipe pages. and no separate home pages, its just flat all apps pages, yes thats crap. dont buy crap stuffs.
Nice to see some windows phone love. I was a windows phone user before iOS (see note later). It was far far ahead of everything. The handsets were cheap, reliable and the software was secure and functional. The problem was that they shipped with IE basically and MSFT had severe product schitzophrenia for the best part of 4 years culminating in the facial ballbagging that was windows 10 mobile and this put everyone off the platform from the users to the app developers. The two death strokes were as follows. Firstly the migration from windows CE to NT kernel which killed off a whole line of handsets from the 8 upgrade and a lot of the apps. The second, the push to have "one OS" experience on desktop and mobile.
Now they're in risk mitigation mode which is "throw shit at everything and see what sticks". Pity the poor individuals who build a business on things that don't stick and then get cut off. Only reliable propositions at this time are Office and Windows. One trick pony.
Note mentioned earlier: I actually used windows phone from the dark ages of 2003-ish with the CE based SPV C500 right until 2014 and then on and off with windows phone handsets to play with. Then through Android, and culminating in iOS.
On Windows CE phones I spent 3 years building POS and POD applications on them so I know the platform pretty well. But they murdered it.
Edit: I had a Noka 521 as well as a backup handset. Only phone you could throw at a wall and it'd still work afterwards. Another problem with windows mobile was the hardware was made of an alloy of cockroaches and 3310's forged by the same dwarfs that did Thor his hammer.
Even running the latest version of iOS available today (12.3.1) it still feels unrefined at times. Even small things like activating buttons or moving levers/progress bars, I was forced to literally drag them, rather than simply tap on them.
One of the most annoying things was not having the ability to download software updates over the air, even when cellular data was on, it insisted on Wi-Fi. With unlimited data quotas on cellular networks these days, this is a stupid limitation but notwithstanding that, it should be my choice as the user how I update my device (particularly when annoyed with constant pop-ups about a software update).
The mandatory requirement to sign up for an Apple ID was also a huge turn-off. I didn't want or need it or any of the other garbage that came along with it, but there was no option to skip.
Finally, the inability to connect the iPhone to a PC and use it as a mass storage device was a major disadvantage (although I could access the photos directly via gPhoto2 on Linux).
...a small form factor smartphone is something they will have to release to maintain user base with the stubborn people not wanting larger phones.
bigger screen is better for watching netflix while you're having a shit
I personally know a handful of people who prefer a small phone, there are a LOT of them out there. I've never understood why anyone would want a phone bigger than the SE. It's close to the perfect size to fit in a pocket and hold in one hand. The screen is very sharp and is plenty sufficient for most things, I'm using it right now to post this. If I want a big screen I'll pull out my laptop.
Yeah; the cultural bias against presbyopia and people just plain born with bad eyesight is staggering. Shockingly, as a whole we outnumber you 20/20s by a factor of 5:1.* Thanks for reinforcing that bias.
mnem
*random shocking figure I literally pulled out of my arse. Can you read this?
Yeah; the cultural bias against presbyopia and people just plain born with bad eyesight is staggering. Shockingly, as a whole we outnumber you 20/20s by a factor of 5:1.* Thanks for reinforcing that bias.
mnem
*random shocking figure I literally pulled out of my arse. Can you read this?Character size hasn't been tied to screen size for a decade or so.
Nor is screen size tied to sense of humor, it seems.
mnem
Made you look.
But you can get all the big letters on the big screen now.
Same as I run my laptop which is 1920x1080 at 150% zoom