The T610 is the second Ericsson phone I have worked with; in this case, a Sony Ericsson, with the first one being the T39.
I must say that Ericsson has got the dumbest menu system on a phone that I have ever worked with. I have started using mobile phones since the 80’s with 3 Motorola’s consecutively. Switching from Motorola’s to Nokia some 8 years later was heavenly with the nice and quick Nokia menu system. However, the Ericsson’s menu system is plain stupid to say the least.
First off, it buries vital and most useful functions menus after menus. Quick key doesn’t work too much better as it takes 5 key presses from screen saving mode just to open the quick key menu! 7 if the key board was locked and one must stll go through the different functions within the quick menu to get what one wanted.
Secondly, it manages contact ID’s with the caller groups rather than the other way round. That means, to start from scratch, one has to select the group, then add the ID’s one by one selecting from the contact list. Furthermore, one has to select each individual numbers from each contact instead of one shot of the contact with all the numbers under the name. This means one has to go through the entire contact phone list to add each and every contact into the group. When mistakenly added a contact to the wrong group, the option calls for a “delete” and ask if that’s what one wanted to do… Although it doesn’t actually delete the contact info, wouldn’t the word “remove” sound much more assuring and safer? With a Nokia, one simply select the contact and just add the caller group tag to the contact and all the subsequent numbers of the contact are all tagged.
Thirdly, it doesn’t keep the time of the made, received, or missed calls if it were yesterday’s or before’s; only the date.
Setting of the quick keys is also dumb. Rather than selecting from the icon menu, it shows all the functions in a single non grouped list!
I’d only hope once I have installed the desktop software the call group setting would be a lot simpler.
So far, the good things about the T610 is that getting online with it is simple and also it does allow one to add what seems to be as many caller groups as necessary. There is one improvement over the T39 - one can now enter the number first and then add to and save a contact. On the T39, one must remember the number, select the contact, and then add the name to the contact.
Silly menu designers.
WhaUSay?!