How hard is it to use a cell phone?

[pontifex]

I'm looking at reviews of cell phones on Verizon's site and I see tons of reviews stating that the phone is slippery and is flipping out of their hands or they are dropping it. Another big issue is that for flip phones, the phone is difficult to open.

I haven't used very many cell phones in my life, but I've never run into either of these problems.

The sad thing is that it isn't just 1 or 2 people, it's tons of them. Are these people just retarded?

Have you ever experienced this?

 

[lxskllr]

I've had phones with ergonomic issues. My last phone's buttons were hard to push. They were hard plastic, and the way they were arranged made it easy to fat finger buttons. I hated that phone :^D

 

[Babbles]

Sounds like incompetence.

However with that being said I suppose there could be something to be said that as technology allows for smaller designed products, it could be a wee bit more difficult to hold or lose them. For example my BlackBerry fits quite easily between the seat in my car and the center console; my older flip phones were too chunky to slip between the cracks.

 

[pontifex]

I've had phones with ergonomic issues. My last phone's buttons were hard to push. They were hard plastic, and the way they were arranged made it easy to fat finger buttons. I hated that phone :^D

I can see crappy buttons, but these people couldn't even hold onto their phones or even open them, lol.

 

[pontifex]

hm...after looking at more and more reviews, I keep seeing the same reviews for different phones. I wonder if Verizon's review system is screwed up?

 

[guyver01]

The sad thing is that it isn't just 1 or 2 people, it's tons of them. Are these people just retarded?

it's hard to hold a cellphone when your hands are covered in ketchup and hamburger grease.

 

[Colt45]

Have you gone outside? There's a lot of stupid out there.

 

[guyver01]

Have you gone outside? There's a lot of stupid out there.

there's alot of stupid in here, too

 

[Babbles]

there's alot of stupid in here, too

But we know us here.

 

[Leros]

I have a tough time holding my iPhone unless its in a case.

 

[KeithTalent]

I drop my phone all the time, but it's not the phone's fault, I'm just a klutz.

KT

 

[BoomerD]

I have difficulty holding on to the tiny cell phones. The dammed little things are just too small for my big meathooks to hold on to and still be able to use them at the same time.

I also have problems with the small buttons that are too closely spaced. My big fingers usually hit 2 or more buttons at the same time. (I wear a size 15 wedding ring.)

 

[Raduque]

Cell phone customers are seemingly the stupidest of the stupid. It felt like 9 out of every 10 people I spoke with when I did CS for Verizon Wireless had an IQ of around 32.

 

[pontifex]

I have difficulty holding on to the tiny cell phones. The dammed little things are just too small for my big meathooks to hold on to and still be able to use them at the same time.

I also have problems with the small buttons that are too closely spaced. My big fingers usually hit 2 or more buttons at the same time. (I wear a size 15 wedding ring.)

I have a LG Dare and it uses a touch screen qwerty keyboard. I have big hands too and the buttons are so small and I always hit the wrong buttons. luckily i rarely need to use it.

 

[ahenkel]

I worked as a CSR for T-mobile at one point and customers would tell me "When I mash the keys nothing happens" So for some people use of a cell phone is right up there with learning how to walk and breath at the same time

 

[SlitheryDee]

I drop everything that's small and has rounded edges. I can't really see having trouble opening a phone though.

 

[ShawnD1]

I've had phones with ergonomic issues. My last phone's buttons were hard to push. They were hard plastic, and the way they were arranged made it easy to fat finger buttons. I hated that phone :^D

I went to Bell and said "give me your cheapest phone" and jesus christ it sucks. My last phone was an LG Fusic and it had really good buttons; press anywhere on the button and it will work. This current one is a Samsung and the buttons absolutely must be pushed in the middle. Some asshole also had the bright idea to put the charger spot on the side of the phone, so talking on the phone while it's charging is incredibly awkward. Most phones have it on the bottom and it works just fine, but Samsung had to shake things up and make it needlessly difficult to use.

I would get a new one but I'm poor

 

[Key West]

1. Stop reading reviews
2. Go out and walk into a store
3. Go to the models & play with the REAL phones and see how YOU like it

I know real life is hard, but you can do it.

 

[Key West]

I went to Bell and said "give me your cheapest phone" and jesus christ it sucks. My last phone was an LG Fusic and it had really good buttons; press anywhere on the button and it will work. This current one is a Samsung and the buttons absolutely must be pushed in the middle. Some asshole also had the bright idea to put the charger spot on the side of the phone, so talking on the phone while it's charging is incredibly awkward. Most phones have it on the bottom and it works just fine, but Samsung had to shake things up and make it needlessly difficult to use.

I would get a new one but I'm poor

Cell phone market is so saturated, even 'cheapest phones' are latest models.

My Blackberry Tour (9630) is currently $0 after rebate. And cell phone rebates always arrive very early.

 

[ShawnD1]

Cell phone market is so saturated, even 'cheapest phones' are latest models.

New or not, this thing is a pile of fuck. My LG Fusic was about 2 or 3 years older but it was better in every measurable category:
-LG Fusic supports Opera Mini 4, cheap Samsung only supports 3 (version 3 is horrible)
-the integrated browser says it has run out of memory if you load ANY page; you absolutely need to install Opera 3 if you want to use the web
-Text messaging is laggy; I can mash 4 or 5 keys and the phone needs to think for a few seconds about what I just pushed
-T9 mode is totally broken and will automatically suggest things like "think48" o
-Battery life is horrible
-LG Fusic had an item called "missed alerts" and it would show every call or text that I missed; cheap Samsung does not have this. People could call me numerous times and I wouldn't even know it unless I checked the call history and went to that individual number.
-LG Fusic is seen as an external storage device and pictures can be copied directly to your computer; cheap Samsung is only seen as a modem and you can only get pictures off the phone by signing into Bell's website

Basically everything is wrong with this phone. The only good thing I can say is that it works well as a telephone. The reception works good, speaker quality is good, and microphone quality is good.

 

[heymrdj]

it's hard to hold a cellphone when your hands are covered in ketchup and hamburger grease.

This. Multitasking is a bitch.

 

[shortylickens]

Get a Motorola Tundra. If your stupid ass manages to drop THAT, then you probably dont need a phone. The good thing is you cant possibly break it so taking the thing back to the store will not be an issue.

 

[randomlinh]

My only complaint is these phones are not built like my old LG510 (or anything prior to 2002). That thing was a tank. Or the old star tec. I remember seeing the samsung juke for the first time... I'd break that after a month of use, it was terribly cheap.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Sure there are a lot of retards out there, having said that though, I used to have a RAZR phone awhile back and it was so thin that when I was driving with out the A/C on in my truck and my hands were a little sweaty, it was very hard to handle while driving. I dropped it several times driving around while trying to flip it open with one hand. I have large hands, so I guess guys with dry little girly hands wouldn't have a problem with it. I like big beefy phones, the bigger the better. Nothing I would complain about though, I still kept it for a couple of years because I liked it at the time.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

You work in CS/Tech Support. You should know this.

I work for a major satellite TV provider. The vast majority of tech support calls barely qualify as technical issues. And people don't get it after you explain it to them multiple times. On some accounts, you will find a note like this left by a dozen agents in the past quarter: 'cust called, no signal, incorrect input,cycled inputs, picture restored. Adv cust TV needs to be on component 2. Resolved.'

And they call back 2 hour later and the cycle repeats. And you think this is simple enough? Then wtf does it take 7 minutes to have them hit input a couple of times?

/tears hair out