Function and purpose on cellphones

I don’t look down on older phones, you know for me it’s great to have many different cellphones around and have fun with them. Sometimes you pick up older clamshell phones, like the ones Jack Bauer and his enemies are keeping touch in earlier seasons. Sometimes you want to pick up a sturdier, a really rugged one (those used to be hard to find, Motorola has one or two such models, and they sure look like police-models.

But then always at the end you are using the business-phone to get all the emails in so why carry the two phones?

I’d like to have a clamshell with email and business capabilities.

Why clamshell? Because it’s dead-easy to put the keylock on since it's not anything you'd have to remember, just close it and that's it! Also you are not answering to any calls by a mistake because of the tight jeans you have. So just when you are about to sit down and someone calls you, your jeans are starting to press the answering-button, and so there you go, you are caught gossiping perhaps!

Well, you could always argue that there is a switch on many of the different phones that you can press and then you’d have the keylock on, but still even today, I end up getting answers to my calls by accident, people being not aware that the phone in their purse or jeans-pocket is answering the call!

When the clamshell-form is further studied I find that having buttons outside the closed phone is usually messy. If you have buttons outside, make sure they wouldn't be harmful in terms of usability and/or they'd need to be pressed hard in order for them to be effective. Motorola Razr is pretty ok since the camera button needs a quite heavy push in order to function, so you won't end up having totally dark photos from your pocket, wheareas for example the Nokia 6126 is horrible in this respect. You end up putting it into your pocket eventually. (It hasn't got the automatic keylock when folded, couldn't find it even from the settings.) So what happens is not just that accidentally the side-button for the camera is being pressed down several times and you end up having black photos, but the real deal is the power button! You start to wonder that the phone is not buzzing at all for a while, since you've turned it off accidentally!

How an earth you're designing a phone that has the power-button on the side like this: (see from the side the red dot, that's the power button). Nokia design-engineering at it's best on this one for sure :)

With the Motorola Razr you can read email pretty easily (although it is painfully slow to write long texts since the operating system slows down significantly), and switch it to check the emails in different time-intervals. That’s pretty good since with low-end Series 40 Nokias have a separate program that handles emails and there is no possibility of “autocheck emails in 10-minute intervals”, or such. So in ads they claim they have the email on those phones, and that’s a load of bs, since it’s not even work properly, it doesn’t have an unauthorized certification pass, etc. Series 60 (as they say; smartphone) however has all the nice functions, but the problem is that you have to constantly take the battery out of the phone if you are using other than the normal phone / sms -functions. (Crashes)

Has Nokia become the new Microsoft?