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Question

I used to find Nokia phones very easy to navigate .In fact after a terrible experiencw with Motarolla I swore I would only ever use Nokia. BIG MISTAKE . Sadly I bought a 6300 and if anything it's the most difficult thing to navigate since Concorde. Why oH why oh way did they mess up a really simple and idiot proof navigation system. It seem to send a call now I cant just typein a number and press GO I have to click endles number or times. Ditto to send or get a text. Then once I send a text I just get stuck !! I cant seem to find how to get out of the Text system. I keep pressing buttons but go around in circles. The same thing happens in other fancy functions too - round and round in circles.
How does one get back to the start menu !!!
Is there an 'escape' key anywhere on this phone thats gets you out of the fancy menus if you get lost
A VERY DISAPOINTED NOKIA USERS

Answer 1

I have operated car phones and then mobile phones since about 1990 so I don't think I can be called a novice.
What appears to have changed is that as the phones have become multi-functional the initial simplicity of their operation as phones alone have been sacrificed to a menu based system where as much emphasis is given to playing games and listening to the radio as making a phone call.
I have used Nokia mobile phones for many years because I found what is refered to as 'old ' operating system very easy to follow and logical to use compared with several other brands I tried inc Panasonic. Ericson, Motorola (worse ever) , Samsung.
Additionally the written instructions were excellent and you could easily find how to work the phone.
Now, because the 'phones' have too many functions , and to avoid having an instruction book the size of yellow page, there appears to be too much reliance on the menu system, and when the phone is switched on one is confronted by a sea of menu icons that you appear to have to scroll through to do any thing.
ie when you swich on the options presented on the screen are '; GO TO / MENU/ LIVE !!! What happend to MAKE A PHONE CALL !!!
Thes options do not sugest that yiou can just type in the number do they ??? If I do just type in the number, it isagain not immediately obvious that you can make the call by pressing the tiny green button - BECAUSE the screen just gives you 3 alternatives - 'Options' + 'Save' or 'Clear;. !!! Again none of these say 'DIAL' or 'MAKE CALL' !! It is not apparant that you can make a call just by pressing the green button ! The green buton used to have an illustration of a phone 'off the hook' and red button =- a phone on the hook. ie excellent visual que's regarding what they were for, Now it's a tiny pin **bleep** of green and red light - which means or conveys nothing obvious at all
I have, since reading this on this discussion , dug out the instruction book and found this information on how to make a call hidden on PAGE 23 of the instruction book!! I shouldn't have to read 23 pages of waffle to find out how to make a call for goodness sake !!!!
IT SHOULD BE AT THE FRONT OF THE BOOK
I BUY A PHONE TO MAKE A PHONE CALL - the least you can do is tell me simply how to do it !!! Not expect me to read War and Peace to discover the answer.
As I say, Nokia phones and the instructions used to be very users friendly. The people who designed the phones and wrote the instruction books seemed to have the user in mind. The current designers and instruction book writers have abandoned this concept and need to be sent back to school.
PLEASE REMEMBER PEOPLE BUY PHONES TO MAKE PHONE CALLS FIRST and FOREMOST.
TELL THEM HOW TO DO IT SIMPLY AND MAKE IT CLEAR , OBVIOUS AND UNAMBIGUOUS.
If they want to use the phone as a dictating machine (I do by the way), they will be prepared to take a little longer to find out how. I didn't mind that I had to sit down and wade though the instructions to find out where the recording function was but I am mighty annoyed that I have had the phone over 6 weks before finding out the most basic way to make a phone call.