The Symbian^3 Menu Structure, Chaos or Genius?
What’s this thing above? A sideways erratic ECG? No, it’s the menu structure of Symbian^3, specifically the Nokia Astound.
Check it out here:
Cheers Deaconclgi!
What’s incredible about it that what you see isn’t even HALF. These I think are the CORE apps and CORE Symbian experiences. Shows:
- How feature packed Symbian is. As many have you said, feature wise, many competing OSes are still catching up.
- So much settings to customize.
- How easily you can get lost. It’s quite overwhelming. Look how deep some of these menu systems are.
- The endless scrolling in this link reminded me of Windows Phone.
One of Symbian’s aims prior to S^3 was reduction of clicks to do stuff. Part of it was swiftly achieved by killing that silly double tap, and some was improved with rethought menu structures. But there’s still a lot of inconsistent menu digging to go through. I think that’s a bigger issue than actually having quite a lot of clicks.
Deaconclgi writes:
This isn’t breaking news or anything but T-Mobile USA has a VISUAL breakdown of the Symbian^3 menu structure. Every menu is listed in order. It is IMPRESSIVE to see it visualized.
This can be taken 2 ways. For us Symbian users, that equals choices, functionality and a feature packed and customizable OS.
For non Symbian Users, it equals a daunting task, cluttered, too many menues, too many clicks and not user friendly (according to bloggers)
I am amazed just to see a visual representaion of the Menu structure. I can’t believe someone took the time to do that.
I am also amazed in a great way at the options under Contacts/Add details. I didn’t realize there were so many choices.
At the very least, take a look. What is your say on the menue struction and amount of options?
Option Overkill or Smartphone King
Category: Symbian
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