A small request of Samsung

Ok I appreciate that this blog is called the 'legal diatribe' and therefore you wouldn't expect a 'mobile phone' (that is cell phone for all the Yanks out there) review on it but today I'm going to run with it anyway. This is just due to one tiny feature of one single phone that I can't work out.

I own a Samsung Tocco Ultra. I chose it for a number of reasons.

1. It is not an iPhone
2. It is a Samsung and my last Samsung was:
- robust
- attractive
- well designed
- not boring
3. It has a camera with more pixels than my last phone
4.It is not an iPhone
5. It doesn't have a touch screen keypad like the Tocca (non-ultra) which means you can text without going insane and having to slap someone.
6. It is not an iPhone.

Now there is probably alot of passionate Apple fans out there who are very angry because I seem to be 'diss-ing' the iPhone phone. I'm not. The reason why I wouldn't have one is because there are a lot of passionate Apple fans out there who care WAAAAY too much about Apple and I sure as hec don't want to be confused for being one. Where a man's heart is there his treasure will be also, and heart is no where near Steve Jobs or any of his creations. I'll leave them for his zealous followers.

I've had the phone for a while and it is fantastic. I can drop it and it works (which is as essential as the ability to call people itself). It does everything I want and probably a million more things besides that I can't be bothered to do (apps anyone?).

So what is my inevitable beef with it?

In my last phone it had a flaw. If you protected messages (because you wanted to keep them) when you tried to 'delete all' it would ask 'Protected message delete?'

Why, why, a thousand times why! If I wanted to delete protected messages I would not have chosen to protect them, would I? What is the point of that function? Do you put a mute button on your alarm clock? Do you have a protective fireproof coating on firewood? A learn German book written entirely in German?

Surely it is on of the only features ever invented that has as its purpose the total ruin of another feature?
How about internet security that doesn't allow ANY traffic? How about an air bag that only goes off after you have pressed a button on the dash board? Maybe in the style of Micro$oft Windows one could hit the brakes of their car and then be asked 'do you really want to brake now?'

This was irriating but then I guess some over enthusiatic technician thought that they were putting in a useful feature. What if you wanted to clear the phone entirely and didn't want to have to unprotect the protected files. It is still the idea of a retard but at least you could just say 'no' and then it would delete all your messages save the ones that were protected.

Then I got my new phone. I thought they would have got rid of the old garbage function after realising it was the creation of someone who obviously had wiskey that morning thinking it was their usual expresso.
No I was wrong. I was also astounded, the had actually managed to make it worse, which frankly, if you had said before, I wouldn't have thought possible.

Now it askes: 'Protected message delete?' but instead of giving the optinons 'yes' or 'no' it now says:

'yes' or 'cancel'.

Now we have already established that I don't want to delete them otherwise I wouldn't have piddled away10 seconds of my life selecting 'protect' in the first place. But now rather than being able to select 'no' I have to select cancel then find and uncheck all the protected messages by going through the whole of my (obviously full) inbox by hand.

Now a question to the fatuous, half witted, knuckle dragging, vacuous, neanderthal who thought of this:

If I wanted to go through my whole inbox looking for the messages I want to keep and un-checking them by hand why would I bother protecting any messages in the first place? It is like buying a house alarm and then when someone breaks in standing on the roof and making 'neeeeenoooorrr' sounds yourself.

Samsung, you're a great company, your phones are the best value for what you get and they provide the best function, but in the interests of profitability, success, your customers sanity and your good name; find the person responsible for this function and have them shot... I mean fired...