Things that annoy you about your mobile phone's functionality

[BonsaiK]

It's easy to find people talking about how their latest piece of technology is great. It's a lot harder to find someone who's honest about the shortcomings in their latest gadget. I suspect that the reason for this is because after outlaying so much money, people are hesitant to say "this is shit" lest they start to look like the easily-suckered fools who they secretly suspect they are. So this thread may be confronting for some of you uber-geeks out there (I mean that in a positive way), so hats off in advance to anyone courageous enough to post in here honestly.

So anyway, I'll go first. I have a phone called a Samsung F480T. I suspect that the F and T stand for "fuck" and "this" respectively, and the reason why this phone annoys me is as follows: when using the predictive text, sometimes I have to make the phone learn a new word. When teaching the phone a new word, the phone automatically defaults to capitalising the first letter of that word while I'm typing it, regardless of whatever setting I had on the phone up until that point. It's as if the phone is trying to say to me "I, the Samsung F480T, am so smart, that if a word exists and it's not in my dictionary, it must be a person's name or a place or brand name, because I already know all the real words, because I'm so clever, so there's no possibility that the word you're trying to teach me could possibly be one of those words". I find that immensely arrogant for a phone and I can't wait to upgrade to something more humble.

Your turn.

(Yes I'm a little bored can't you tell)

(Also this thread, if it gets enough replies, will be a nice shopping guide for when I upgrade - so please include the make and model of your phone, thanks. Inquiring minds want to know.)

 

[Daystar Clarion]

My phone is the same phone that Morgan Freeman's character in the Dark Knight used to map the entirety of that Chinese buisness building using sonar.

My phone doesn't do that...

 

[BonsaiK]

Have you been in a Chinese business building lately to test this? Maybe it has some kind of auto-detect and if you're in close proximity of one it activates.

If you have tested it in these conditions and still no dice, take it back to the store and ask them to show you how to do that.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Have you been in a Chinese business building lately to test this? Maybe it has some kind of auto-detect and if you're in close proximity of one it activates.

You may be right...

This deserves further investigation.

Time to buy a plane ticket.

 

[RemuValtrez]

My phone has horrible signal. Really tempted to get a different one but I'm paying so little for unlimited... that I can't use to it's full capacity due to crappy coverage -.-;. I guess I get what I pay for.

 

[Henkie36]

My phone is incompatible with standard-issue earphones. That's pretty annoying because headsets don't tend to be very tough, and buying new ones specially made for the Samsung Star can get relatively expensive.

 

[Mr.White]

My Sony Ericsson Elm like to die when I text, when I put it in my pocket and when I put am making calls, this started happening after about a year. I bought it for £100 and I honestly expected better.

 

[similar.squirrel]

LG Cookie, one of the lower-end variants. Doesn't seem to like syncing music with Banshee in Ubuntu, so every track ends up as a double. Puzzlingly, when I delete one, the remaining track ceases to be functional.

Still, I can get around that by using Windows.

Oh.. Sometimes I manage to put calls on hold by pressing the 'button' with my ear. That seems to be the way of touchscreens.

 

[I.N.producer]

My phone freezes for no reason. It's the flip blackberry, and it doesn't have powerful enough hardware to support it's basic functions. For example, I've had it freeze for several minutes because I tried to check email while I had full signal.
Plus the media player garbles any sound coming form it. Even through headphones.
I really want to get away from this phone as soon as reasonably possible.

 

[ChaoticKraus]

I own a Samsunng Galaxy S2, overall it's really nice. It costs a fuckton (I got it fairly cheap through a subscription), but you can use it for almost all your computing/entertainment needs.

But the battery life is pathetic. I can't go 2 days without it dying. I guess that is the price to pay when you have a screen that humongous. And the program used for computer/phone interaction is clunky and sluggish as hell. Fuck Samsung Kies.

Oh and some case for protection when not in use is recommend. When the screen is that big the chance of landing on it is equally big.