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shmokes:
The phone has a design flaw. Continuing to use the phone doesn't make it user error. I'm using the phone AS INTENDED. Continuing to use the phone doesn't say anything except that I'm continuing to use a flawed product. The cons don't outweigh the pros for me. If somebody points out the stupidity of the iPhone's lack of cut-and-paste (finally being addressed in the upcoming 3.0, btw) do you say, "User error. If you wanted cut and paste you'd just go out and buy a different phone." How retarded is that? The main difference here is that the bad design decision I'm talking about isn't just a missing feature, but an honest to god design flaw. I'm using the phone in a perfectly reasonable way -- in a way it was intended intended by the manufacturer to be used, and on a regular basis the ---smurfing--- thing calls 911 without me intending it to. How can you say with a straight face that there's nothing wrong with that?
The Pearl's ---smurfing--- raison d'etre is its pocketability. Otherwise a person would just get a full-sized Blackberry with a bigger screen and a full-sized keyboard. I don't want to put my Pearl on my belt. I got the pearl vs. a full-sizer specifically to keep in my pocket. I also don't want to put my phone in standby. I've started doing that, but now I can't use it as a watch or check the screen to see whether I have any new text messages or voicemails without taking it out of standby.
This is so funny. Y'all are just digging your heels in for the sake of arguing. Whether or not I could obviate the problem by changing my own behavior doesn't magically make it not a problem. Surely you wouldn't say that a poorly designed roof with eves that begin to sag is not poorly designed because after one or two of your eves began sagging you didn't go around and prop poles underneath them to give them added support. Maybe there's an inconvenient solution to your problem, but that doesn't mean the eves weren't poorly designed. Shrug.
BTW, I don't have a data contract on my phone. The only thing I miss out on is an extremely crappy internet experience and push email. I still get Blackberry's excellent calendar and the Pearl's perfect formfactor, awesome Suretype, qwerty keypad.
edit: typos
ChadTower:
While you're all up on that horse, consider that the consequences of the design flaw outweigh your personal convenience. Police have better things to do than chase down a guy whose hardon called 911 on a cell in his pocket. It's not like it called your grandma.
CheffoJeffo:
Did you even bother to try the tip that I passed along ... or are you just feeling all vitriolic today ?
Mrs. Cheffo has a Pearl, doesn't use a holster and has never dialed 911 by mistake .. apparently sometimes she does listen to my advice and keeps it in a sleeve, AS INTENDED.
And, yeah, if you wanted cut and paste and bought an iPhone, I would definitely call it user error. If I want to play Major Havoc, but bought a Black Widow cabinet, THAT would be user error.
A better analogy might be if I bought a WG G08 and it caught on fire, then it would user error because I KNOW that it is going to catch fire.
Duh!
shmokes:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 24, 2009, 03:16:06 pm ---Did you even bother to try the tip that I passed along ... or are you just feeling all vitriolic today ?
--- End quote ---
Would you be referring to this tip?
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 24, 2009, 02:55:51 pm ---I also don't want to put my phone in standby. I've started doing that, but now I can't use it as a watch or check the screen to see whether I have any new text messages or voicemails without taking it out of standby.
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Mrs. shmokes also has a pearl and she also has never dialed 911 by mistake. Like Mrs. Cheffo, however, she keeps her phone in her purse, not in her pocket, so I don't see how her experience relates to the issue I'm talking about.
And I think your analogies don't really work very well. Obviously buying an iPhone for cut and paste would be user error. That's not what I said. I said that it was simply missing a feature that it should have -- that it was poor design. I made a point of distinguishing it from the Pearl which has, "an honest to god design flaw." Your Major Havoc/Black Widow analogy suffers from the same problem. Buying a Major Havoc cab to play Black Widow would be user error. Obviously. Buying a Blackberry Pearl to carry in your pocket is not user error. It's made for just such a purpose. In one case you are absurdly trying to use a product for something it was not intended to be used for. In the other you are using the product in the way it is intended to work, in the way it should work, and it's doing bad things.
I actually don't understand the monitor analogy. I guess that this monitor has a reputation for catching fire? Even so, you may have made an unwise choice, but that's not user error. A monitor that bursts into flames when it's being used properly obviously has a design defect. Please don't argue otherwise.
edit: spelling
Kevin Mullins:
It's not like we're discounting your frustration over the calling 911 by mistake ordeal, it's just that there are preventative measures you can personally take.
First off..... they made it easy to dial 911 for a reason.
Heck, why do you think it's only three digits to begin with?
And if some phone manufacturer can make it even easier then all the better....... in case of an emergency.
Ok, so you don't want to wear it on your belt...... you want it "pocketable".....
http://www.blackberrysource.com/store/catalog.asp?item=3493
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