Автор: evelinster
Дата: 04-02-13 14:55
Хората не са много доволни май. Оплакванията са малко като на димов ама ... Има и няколко положителни неща.
40 reasons I wanted to send my Blackberry Z10 back:
Background: I had been waiting years for the new BB10/Z10 and while I would have preferred to get the Q10 simply for its full clicky keyboard, I didn't want to wait another few months. Luckily I'm in the UK so got hold of a Z10 48 hours ago. In the UK we get 7 (sometimes 14) days to try out a handset risk free. Here's why I'm currently intending to send it back:
(btw - I understand some issues can be palmed off to other companies e.g. Gmail issues - but seriously? BB can test this stuff before they release. Ultimately they should care if the end user has a rough time! It's not as if Gmail isn't insanely popular. And if you claim "ah, but it's a new OS!" then sorry - no dice. It's not new - it's not even new code! This has been in production for more than a year with thousands of RIM employees using dev handsets to refine the OS and make it supposedly good enough to launch (part of the original delay). How some of these issues could have slipped by RIM personnel during the years they have been making BB10, is absolutely beyond me. Think about what makes your BB experience so great. Why do you love BB vs iP or Droid? For 90% of POWER users it's things like customisable notifications. Customisable LED colours. Individual mailbox icons. Things that enhance productivity and mean you don't have to check the device (as in power up, and swipe) constantly. 'Hearing' whether you need to look at the device itself saves hours each day. Things like 'delete' vs 'delete from server'. It's not as if RIM could have forgotten all of these things when they started making BB10!
1. You'll want to be able to assign a different alert sound to each mail box so you can tell, with your ears... if you need to pick-up/look at the device. It's an age old BB feature and is literally the most productive feature on the devices. Currently? You get only one alert sound for all emails, regardless of which mailbox they are for. And they all have to be the same volume.
2. You'll want BBM to work in Landscape mode, because this mode is much more comfortable to type in, especially 2-handed. Currently? Portrait only, sorry.
EDIT: workaround - activate via the Hub, rather than icon
3. You'll want WhatsApp, Bloomberg Mobile and BeBuzz - top App targets on pretty much any user's list. Really, they should have been part of the 70,000 apps RIM got finished pre-launch of BB10.
CLARIFY: not the Bloomberg for terminal login, that's available already. Bloomberg did a great App for monitoring portfolios too - that's missing. WhatsApp is the real pain here because of so many non-BB users who expect to be able to 'chat' these days.. yes, even though WhatsApp is HORRIBLY insecure and generally a poor version of BBM. There are 400 different battery monitors in the revamped App World, I would happily have jettisoned 399 of them if I could have had WA from day one.
EDIT: You can do a port of the Droid version of WA but it won't integrate with contacts list, apparently
4. when you click the Text Messages icon you'll want it to take you to your text messages, not the Hub.
CLARIFY: this is a known bug related to open emails in the Hub
5. you'll want to be allowed to set whatever lock password you want. Sometimes it's less about security and more about requiring SOMETHING to be entered before unlocking the device (stopping a kid, for example). If you want "ABAB" as your password, that is your choice. Currently? Nope - no patterns or short passwords allowed.
6. the Z10 runs damn hot. You can fry an egg on it.
CLARIFY - might be syncing/config related to new device - may settle. May be exacerbated by the metal on the backing plate (the RIM logo)
7. the lock screen currently has just one icon for emails - ALL emails, regardless of mailbox. It has a fairly useless number for unread messages in ALL of the boxes combined e.g. "200 emails" - but maybe 198 are messages in a box you don't care for. Pretty lame because you therefore have to double-swipe into the Hub to see what messages are waiting.
8. opening a tenth App closes a previously opened App. It should ask you before closing the other App.
EDIT: This is a pain if Skype, Voice or Maps is the App it closes. Yes yes do you really need 10 Apps open? Depends how you use your device!
9. the battery % number has been removed! The current battery icon is too small to tell the difference between 30% and 15%.
EDIT: there is an App that can do this, I leave it running constantly
10. the screen rotation is S-L-O-W. Often you can count 1.. 2.. 3.. 4 before the screen switches orientation. Given how often you'll switch between orientations during use, it quickly gets annoying. I've counted to 13 so far, that's the record.
CLARIFY - this was noted on a demo video and perhaps RIM know about it. You will waste a lot of time waiting for the screen to change orientation.
11. because the auto correct option is ON the space bar, it stops you putting a space into the text you're writing. (if you don't want to accept the auto correct suggestion). You have to swipe up to circumvent this. It's annoying.
12. the touch (capacitative, I assume?) often requires 2 or 3 presses to register - simply not good enough. It's generally not that accurate. Trying to get the cursor to the right spot to edit something is frustrating.
EDIT: playing more with the 'cursor positioning circle' feature it's getting easier BUT - when near the edge of the screen it's still very tough AND when trying to cut/copy/paste it seems to have a mind of it's own. Appreciate I have been spoilt with a trackpad for many years...
13. when the screen finally rotates (see point 10) the position your cursor was in in the previous orientation is lost
14. you can't use the Calendar in Landscape mode - frustrating as typing 2 handed is much more comfortable in Landscape mode
15. auto-correct seems to function on the assumption that the first letter is already correct.
EDIT: often you mis-type the first letter and then the whole word before realising. Currently you need to delete the whole word (actually quite easy - swipe left on the keyboard) and start again = wasted time
16. it's not easy to put a question/exclamation mark into text. Fine, have a sub menu for general punctuation - but not these extremely common marks.
EDIT: which is exactly why comma and full-stop (period) are full-time keys
17. the super-useful "delete from device OR delete from device & server" has been removed entirely!
18. the status bar (battery, time, signal) has been removed from the screen when you are in an App
EDIT: you'll miss time the most, probably. Comments that it gives you extra screen space. That's a fair point.. but it should be a user option.
EDIT2: sort of workaround: Swipe up from the bottom, but not full swipe(as for minimizing the app) - just 3-4mm and you can see battery bar, time, wifi, cellular network, location, hotspot etc. Release, and you're in your app again - thanks borceg!
19. using the browser in Landscape mode means "open in new tab" is in a fricking sub-menu! It's like the single most used feature in any browser, and unlike Apple iOS you can't just hold a press to activate 'open in new tab'. It makes for a clunky multi-tab browsing experience when browsing in Landscape.
20. sometimes numbers are included in the on-screen keyboard, sometimes not. And not in the common sense way you might expect.
EDIT: yes there is a shortcut (swipe down on the keyboard) but no, that's not my point!
21. twice now my 'enter password to unlock' screen has appeared without the keyboard, meaning I couldn't enter my password.
CLARIFY - about 2 times out of 200, or 1%
22. new messages - why the heck couldn't you have some small icons in the status bar at the top of the screen? Why force us to swipe/double-swipe all the way to the Hub to see what messages, in which mailboxes, have come through?
23. in the Hub, the icons for each message don't show if the message was successfully sent. This is lame. To check if an email/text was sent okay, you have to go into the message (2 levels)
24. the 'mark as read' option is cranky with Gmail accounts - often taking EDIT: hours to feed through and update.
25. you can't bulk 'mark as read' several message at once EDIT: yes, you can - check the sub-menus
26. you STILL can't see when a text message you received was actually sent by the other party. This is an absolute disgrace - even 10 year old Nokia phones can show this information.
27. you STILL can't swap email accounts when forwarding a message
28. Calendar reminders often don't trigger the red LED. In fact, the LED is generally pretty rubbish, often not flashing, or flashing only for a short while.
29. deleting an email takes 2 clicks rather than 1 EDIT - you can turn the delete confirm off, check the sub menus
30. the device supplied ring tones/alert tones are AWFUL and you cannot set variable volume levels. Okay, you can load whatever sounds you like.. but, for example.. it let's you select .mid files for ringtone even though these aren't compatible (when someone calls, your phone will be silent). How difficult would it have been to put OS5/6/7 ringtones into the ringtones folder? So that users get some consistency out of the box?
31. there's an awkward 3 second pause between clicking Send and a text message actually sending. Why awkward? Because you then have to wait/waste 3 seconds waiting to see if your click was registered, and if the message was sent.
32. trying to type 2-handed in portrait mode is very uncomfortable.
33. battery life is as disappointing as you feared - about 12 hours tops, with sensible use
EDIT - might be related to syncing/config and general playing with everything.. might settle
34. GMAIL - boring standard message in the Inbox, no labels or anything funky - Universal Search won't find it if it's more than 1 WEEK old. And the power controls from previous BBs (Indexing, Extended Search etc)? Gone.
35. You'd like to set different ringtones (and volumes) depending on who's calling you? Say, so your wife can wake you up in the middle of the night, while you're travelling, but nobody else can? Nope - sorry - that feature is gone.
CLARIFY: you sort of can, but not really unless you want to manually set the ringtone to silent for every other contact in your address book
36. Weird one this. The phone has stopped ringing! Checked and double-checked all Notification settings, even did a reboot but nope, phone will not ring for an incoming call!
EDIT: a fresh reboot has fixed it thank God - I was using a 206kb mp3 which may or may not be relevant
37. First field test of TomTom maps (Google maps is gone) wasn't that great. We wanted a chip shop and it found one 8 miles away. Fortunately the lady's 9900 using G Maps found one 500 yards away. I guess this will improve over time, and I'd love to know why G Maps is missing (assume aggressive move from Google?)
38. it's sometimes tricky to clear Missed Calls. I think you might have to go into the Missed Calls menu and then sub menu? Seems to be more effort than it should be - previously you just clicked the Dial button once to view and presto, missed call indicator cleared. Hardly a huge thing but then as with a lot on this list, it's all about saving a second here, a second there = a big saving over the day or week.
39. Contentious I know, and certainly not a 'fault', but the charging points are gone so I can't get a desktop stand (ironic given the battery life is now more of an issue)
40. when composing a text message you'd like to see the conversation history for that contact, right? currently it only shows you the history, once you've sent the new message. A bit.. odd.
41. MY GOD - this is a joke now. The SOUND for a text message sometimes doesn't play. It seems to vibrate okay, but every 5th or so text message, it doesn't play the alert sound. WTF. Are you kidding me RIM? This is the most basic function of a phone other than making calls.
http://www.thorstenfixplease.co.uk/
(returning to a trusty 9780 until I work out what to do..... overall my feeling is that in their rush to "re-launch" they have removed most of what made us all so loyal to BB in the first place!)
GOOD POINTS:
- You know how AWFUL the previous BBs were for browsing, taking photos, looking at photos, looking at videos.. basically anything media based? That's all fixed, and fixed really really well!
- The hardware is also pretty special in terms of build
- The reviews that say the call quality is bad are off the mark, if you ask me. Maybe it's because I'm in the UK (3G) but they sound great
- And the speaker? VERY GOOD. Certainly adequate for a conference call type scenario with the device in the middle of the table, again contrary to some reviews
- The handset is a good weight, feels substantial but not heavy
- The headphone socket on the top makes for easier tune-listening when it's in your pocket
- Did I mention how GREAT browsing esp in Landscape is? Ooooo-la-la
- It's much easier to move icons around and sort them into folders
- It's great being able to see 16 big icons per screen
- BBM is sublime, as always
- The way pictures/videos are played back is finally updated - on the 9780 it would regularly crash the whole device
- I think (not confirmed) the email client is finally suggesting (or remembering) contact names/emails that you recently used
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