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On 10/01/07, Stewart Smith <Stewart.smith at novate-it.co.uk> wrote:
> Judging a phone on the UI alone is insane, it's like choosing a car
> purely for the interior!!!

No it's not. It's like judging a car purely based on its arrangement
of pedals, steering wheel and dials, which, being basically common to
all cars (autos and clever-shifts aside) makes the analogy rather
moot.

> There are so many different factors that make a decent phone, yes UI is
> important but what use is a decent interface if the phone is hugley
> battery hungry, if it drops calls, if the sound quality is poor etc. I
> don't care how pretty a UI is, if the phone falls down on any of these
> other features it will end up in a canal as far as I'm concerned.

I'm just picturing you throwing an expensive gadget into the Feeder :)
Nah, not gonna happen :p

Tim