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I am a HUGE Nokia fan btw, why else would I have bought the 7610. I just thought I would get adjusted to the keypad and it would be fine. It wasn't the layout that bothered me in the end, it was the quality/durability.]]>Apr 15th 2006 12:13AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/Apr 15th 2006 3:15PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/
BUT, it's 3 years old now, and acting a bit goofy, so I can't wait for Nokia to bring a GOOD phone to Canada.]]>Apr 16th 2006 2:45AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1004522.html

Yikes. Strangely, this new one looks an awful lot like the greatest keypad of ALL TIME, the one that happens to be found on the Moto V600:
http://www.accessoriesresources.com/bookpic/200542916553524371.jpg

At least Nokia can make fun of themselves. Which is cool.]]>Apr 16th 2006 2:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/04/14/nokia-reorients-target-demographic-designs-buttons-for-humans/
No question the 3650 has among the silliest keypad designs ever foisted on an unsuspecting public (though the Samsung/B&O Serene does it one better by keeping circular key arrangement and putting it ON TOP of the screen...). But I'm with Jacob (#7)'s boss: the 7210 has to be Nokia's worst keypad design of all time because it uses rocker switches to combine things like engaging speakerphone (on one end of a small rocker switch) and HANGING UP THE CALL (on the the other end of the switch). I can't count how many people I hung up on while testing that phone. Nice Series 40 device otherwise with some neat accessories (the lanyard camera was particularly well designed).

But Nokia isn't out of the woods with its current lineup, either. All the current designs with the four essentially blank selection/send/end keys are overly minimalistic. Consumers new to Nokia phones cannot possibly know which key to press to initiate or answer a call, so a trip to the user guide is mandatory for the most basic phone functions.

The 8801 could also use some ergonomic help - there are blank spots in the precise location that Nokia puts menu selection buttons on its other phones. The spots look like buttons but are actually... dead space. The actual menu selection buttons are higher on the phone, and look like slider ridges. The middle selection button IS a slider ridge, not a button. The combined effect is to confuse anyone who is not new to Nokia phones, who will inevitably push the dead spots and think their phone's menu system is broken.

-avi]]>Apr 16th 2006 4:21PM