surur
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Actually, compared to WM6 on a keyboarded device, the UI is pretty inefficient. Pretty, but inefficient.
Surur
Surur
Well that's nice.
I personally would rather just click on the actual, instantly available, LETTER to filter the list down (no need to hunt and peck through T9 to press the appropriate key the correct number of times to get to the letter of the name) ? or I might just want to have fun flicking through my contacts.
Surur & archie - are you two brothers in opposite uniforms, or just an old married couple?
You are comparing two different things; Google Maps and GPS.Yes Archie, I am sure you will spend all your time flicking things around, instead of actually using your phone.
Whats so efficient about having to tell google maps where you are, when it it had built-in GPS it could tell you where you are? Pretty poor, but a lot of nice flicking.
One swipe and a click on the iPhone. Tell me how you do it on WM6. Here is the only way possible that I know.Even deleting e-mail seems to be a 2 or 3 step process, when it can be done with one keypress on WM6.
Efficient? Who needs to be efficient when enjoying some music? You don't get it. If you want to be efficient you can browse your music or videos or podcasts or lectures or tv shows or movies or whatever in a multitude of different methods that would be more "efficient"; that is if you consider "browsing" "efficient".Coverflow is pretty, but again not very efficient, vs simply typing the album name on your hard keypad using smartfilter, built into WM6.
You are comparing two different things; Google Maps and GPS.
One swipe and a click on the iPhone. Tell me how you do it on WM6. Here is the only way possible that I know.
1. Select message
2. Press left softkey
3. Press action button on ?Yes? button confirming the deletion
Lame.......
And this is the new EASY method.
Tell me why they changed this at the expense of making it even more difficult to do what actually needs to be done more often: that is starting a new message. Here is what you have to do for that now as a result of M$ making the deletion of spam more "efficient".
1. Open Messaging app
2. Select Messaging account
3. Press right softkey
4. Press action button on pre-selected ?New? command (For text messages, the ?New? command has another sub menu with SMS and MMS options, adding another couple steps to this process)
5. Write new message
If I were you, I would be cursing M$ up and down.
Efficient? Who needs to be efficient when enjoying some music? You don't get it. If you want to be efficient you can browse your music or videos or podcasts or lectures or tv shows or movies or whatever in a multitude of different methods that would be more "efficient", that is if you consider "browsing" "efficient".
You still have to select the message. On the iPhone, you just swipe and hit delete.Actually all you need to do is press and hold the delete shortcut key (7 or D), and delete confirmation can be swtiched off, to make that a one step process too. See WM is about work, not play.
Replying is no more efficient than on the iPhone. This doesn't change the fact that if you want to start a "New" message on WM6, you still have to go through this highly inefficient and arcane method.I saw that complaint, but you can reply to a message just by pressing and holding the R or 2 key. It takes account of how people WORK with mobile e-mail - mainly in the form of triage and reply, not writing volumes.
You still have to select the message. On the iPhone, you just swipe and hit delete.
Replying is no more efficient than on the iPhone. This doesn't change the fact that if you want to start a "New" message on WM6, you still have to go through this highly inefficient and arcane method.
I have to admit, the Coverflow thing looks weird for finding that one album you want to listen to. Can you use the keyboard at all to "smart-find" the band, album or song? Searching by album cover seems a bit odd...or am I missing something?Maybe its because you want to hear the song you want to hear now, instead of after 60 seconds of riffling through coverflow? Do people even use that on the desktop? Ive heard not.
Surur
So you're proclaiming the iPhone inefficient without even knowing the facts?!So its one touch on the IPhone, and two on WM, but when it comes to entering the e-mail address its a lot of scrolling on the IPhone vs simply typing a few characters of the name in the address box
IPhone - Pretty Inefficient.
Surur
What's wrong with seeing both good and bad in it? Like, "I would love the bigger screen but I'd sure miss those buttons." Why can't we evaluate each feature and say 'That's cool!" and "I don't like that".. I haven't heard Archie say one negative thing about it, and surur's compliments always seem to have a 'but' at the end.
So you're proclaiming the iPhone inefficient without even knowing the facts?!
Here is a fact for you: you CAN "simply type a few characters of the name in the address box" on the iPhone. I am not sure why you say that a person cannot do this.
Even your example has a but in it. Its how we say we express reservation. Unless you have another way.
Surur
Yeah, true, you got me. How about you point out one thing you really like about the iPhone (with no 'but's) and Archie says one thing he doesn't like (or says something nice about WM )?