My Mobile Digest No.2
So, I am really tired of this low quality plastic trash all around. Take a look at my mobile. This phone is about nearly two years old. Since the first days the keyboard was so lousy, that it was impossible to really play any game with it. After one or two months I made a firmware update “to enhance the java for mobile capabilites”. The result was that the keys on the side weren’t working. And you maybe know, that Siemens do not support older versions of firmwares. So, in short: I wasn’t able to change the volume of the speaker inside the phone. And because I had a very silent setting at the time I made the update, I was practically unable to make calls at the street, because I could not understand my partner on the phone. It took me about 1,5 years to figure out an alternative way to set the speaker louder again. And oh, the keys still not working.
When the phone was about 1,25 years old, that plastic thing at the top fell out. Never mind. I found this cellphone always ugly. I was deciding for technique over style when in bought it. But most annoying is the newset BIG BUG of this phone: the keys fell out! This were not that problem, if you could touch the blanket keys with your fingers. But the keys are somehow that kind of crap, that it is almost impossible to touch a key without touching other keys besides.
To make this long story short: I will never buy a Siemens phone again. Or at a larger scale: why aren’t there any mobile phones, that are a little like the iPod. Beautyful, functional und robust. And WITHOUT THE NEED to replace it every two years. Yes, I really hate all this plastic crap all around the mass market.