Software Business in the Middle East

I always assumed that I needed only a few features in my mobile phone: calls, SMS and alarm-clock. Using my old Nokia 6230 it seemed to be all right. Then my heavily used Nokia broke last year, and it happened that I got free and brand new Samsung SGH-C170. That phone seemed to be exactly what I needed - it could only call, SMS and it had an alarm clock.

First week of using Samsung showed I was very wrong in my assumtions that I needed a “simply calling phone”. Below are just a few examples of the features that made my experience using Samsung not very good:

• Time of calls – sometimes I call back using the time of the missed or received call. Samsung simply does store the time of calls. Sometimes it’s not clear if that’s another missed call, or the same from yesterday.
• Repeating Alarm Clock – bad thing is that Samsung’s alarm clock rings only once. If you didn’t wake up, the phone will not repeat the alarm again. It’s very easy for me to oversleep, especially if I went to the bad late at night.
• Saving sent SMS in the Sent folder - nice feature, missed it a lot.
• SMS Editor – such features like starting a new sentence from a capital letter makes life easier. It seems to be a standard now in all phones, but not in my Samsung.

All above are not a big deal, really. But as soon as you get used to such small nice things, it is difficult to live without them. Nowadays I travel a lot and I need to have access to my e-mails from any place, so I got BlackBerry Curve 8900 to see if this device helps in my daily work.