The feature list of a phone is worthless if people can't actually use those features. That is the problem with most cell phones. They have horrible UIs and are often times locked to hardwired keyboards that become a massive albatross of doom.
You don't get it. It is about being able to use the features a phone offers, not just talk about them on an internet forum. That is where the difference lies. Please tell me the phones you feel have a superior UI and accessibility compared to the iPhone. I am not somehow married to an iPhone or in love with it. I want the best device to do what I want it to do. If someone else has a UI that is easier to use and allows me access to all of its features without guessing or reading the manual, please tell me what it is. I would be more than happy to take a look.
Cell phone feature lists do NOTHING for me, because I have used too many phones in my life to know that most of them are not actually implemented in a way that makes them functional or usuable for a normal person.
Well, I don't know what kind of phones you are using that don't "allow" you to use the features it has. Every advertised feature on my phone works, not to mention the unadvertised ones that 3rd party software added. I mean, its a phone. Explain to me what you mean by "Horrible" UI, perhaps a picture of what you mean, I can't wrap my mind around it. Show me some home screens / etc that simply are unintelligible, that one would look at with NO idea what to press, or how to get to anything from there.
I don't really know what your getting at. Any decent windows mobile 5/6 phone takes no more than 3-4 button presses to get where you want to be. Note, this is because it has more than 12 items available. I would hope someone could open opera mini on my phone without reading a book, but I would imagine if they could not, then they would not do much better getting to safari on a locked iPhone. On my phone it takes 2 presses of the start button and 1 press of the number 3.
These "Horrible" UI statements you make are really somewhat unfounded. Yes, the iPhone is sleeker, but VERY limited in functionality perhaps IN PART to facilitate that. If all my icons were on the start screen on my phone, then you could likely get going with very little training. Its a bit more advanced than that, and I see no way to avoid it other than "Dumbing" it down, and just limiting the users choices.
There is a "Required" level of complexity to offer a fair number of options, programs, and configurability, and the iPhone seems to avoid some of this by simply limiting it.
Yes, yes, yes, its fairly intuitive. Yes, it has a touchscreen instead of "Hardwired input".
Basically, *I* could not imagine someone that is atleast savy enough to sync a smartphone with a pc is also not savy enough to operate the basic functions of it, IE email, sms, and a browser.
I really don't know how to argue it other than that, I am simply saying, its a limited device, but I guess mainly to ME. JQ Public may have a different feeling, and it may be everything he / she ever dreamed of.
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I guess its like anything apple - We "Smarter" ones already have all the "Innovation" that apple ever introduces, usually well before apple introduces it - Apple tv, iPhone, etc. We usually are way advanced as far as those things go. However, we have spent many hours tweaking to get to that point, and have done some hacking here or there to make things just right. It certainly is rarely an open box and go type of thing.
Whereas apple, although sometimes through a dumbing down / limiting of options, makes these innovations accessable to the "Seething masses", albeit with a shiny exterior and lofty price tag.
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