Comments on: Which is the best mobile phone UI?

By: Khairul Rizal

Khairul Rizal — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:35:09 +0000

HTC Hero has the best and coolest UI. Easy for everyone

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:04:01 +0000

Yeah my comment is 8 months late....but anyways.

You do realize that you can just hold the back button on the SE to return to the Standby screen / exit an application?

By: Pheonix SZ

Pheonix SZ — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:09:52 +0000

I have to say that I went from Nokia to Sony-E and even after 12 months use, still DETESTED SE’s (so-called) UI. To get back from application to desktop, you can only keep pressing the cancel ‘c’ button on the SE – but with Nokia, it’s just the red button.
SE seriously need to sort out their incredibly frustrating UI – as it’s this that makes me baulk at the idea of going back to them … no matter how nice their phones.
And another thing – how come SE don’t make contoured/stylish phones … I’m thinking of their candy-bars here.
Nokia are still the only SERIOUS manufacturers in the game.
They’ve got it all – UI, OS and hardware design.
The others will always be also-rans until they start looking at what Nokia does right.

By: Rajan

Rajan — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:37:35 +0000

Nokia is popular but their UI is not great when compared to SE which by far is the best. Very well laid out.

Nokia's 4 button UI is so confusing. UI is largely determinant in providing experience to users but other factors should be considered. I would go for SE any day for its killer UI but I am using (or forced to use) an N70 because it has an open platform and allows me to experience so many other things.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:24:52 +0000

Blackberry's rule!!!!

Had one for two years, got a Palm Treo and returned it after 2 hours.

By: Kajal

Kajal — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:54:22 +0000

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By: Prejay

Prejay — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:32:25 +0000

I haven't had that much experience in all this, but as far as smartphones go, i like sendo's customising of s60 in the form of the sendo x. I'd like to see what they do for motorola now.

By: vuori

vuori — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:42:26 +0000

I have only used Nokia and Motorola recently (Ericsson before they became SonyEricsson, back when their UIs had a half second keypress latency). My impression of the last 9 years worth of Nokia is that they did a lot of work back in the 90s on usability (text entry, menu navigation with shortcuts etc) and have been riding on that ever since. There hasn't really been much improvement in my opinion since then (though I haven't used the newer smartphones such as the N70), just more features being piled on the old system with minimum changes and it was getting a bit creaky and crowded.

I picked up a Motorola V3x a while ago. I don't think the UI is actually horrible, but it isn't really good either. Their major problem seems to be that the people developing different components of the OS didn't talk to each other much. So you have to set up GPRS APN and stuff like that a million times, the Ok/Done button changes side and name randomly, the text entry system has no global settings and is generally a bit fishy etc. If actual innovation isn't forthcoming, I think they'd have a passable system (on the level of Nokia) if they got around to actually having someone test it.

That said, I still prefer my Palm (-: (not that their UI has seen any major changes since the original Pilot)

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:27:14 +0000

Talking abotu cell phones in India, Nokia is a rage and is in some sorts a de facto standard. People just cant use other phones as they are so used to the usability of Nokia, But when it comes to UI i think Sony Ericsson takes the cake. Their UI is slick , neat and well packaged.

By: Bill Gram-Reefer

Bill Gram-Reefer — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:26:25 +0000

as bad as reception with a treo over cingular is (there is a reason for those commercials), I still stick by my treo 650 (after a 600 and the one from handspring)

I tried switching to hello moto but was frustrated

By: swagat

swagat — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:37:09 +0000

currently SE is the best.its become very polished (started from k700 days _^above comment) again its true that nokia was great in fact the best for older type phones but quite not upto the mark now…samsung has improved a lot, infact it should
come a close 3rd ..or mayb a tie with nokia …
lg.. well average and MOtorola sucks big time…their UI is total rubbish,rubbish and more rubbish! absolutely worthless and irritating
—–from personal experience

By: Bargearse

Bargearse — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:02:56 +0000

The Sony Ericsson UI, since the K700, is by far the best. It's attractive, everything is neatly laid out, it's fast and has a ton of shortcuts for power users.

The Motorola UI is an absolute train wreck. It was the reason I flogged off my RAZR (and I had it before it was "cool" and every man and his dog got one).

Nokia's old school interface was great in it's day (6210 FTW), but it didn't scale up well for newer phones. The 6280 UI is very inconsistent IMO.

Series 60; see Motorola. Plus it's dog slow.

I haven't used LG or Samsung.

By: Darth Driver

Darth Driver — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:15:51 +0000

I have used several mobile phones.

In my opinion, the Windows Mobile 5 interface of my XDA Executive phone is the best.

Everything else is kind of lame, comparing to it.

By: Qasim Virjee

Qasim Virjee — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:48:18 +0000

Bringing it back to the issue of Blackberry/RIM - their phones aren't as de luxe as the new breed of spiffy 3G [convergence devices]/phones out there and Om, you're right in excluding them from your poll because of this however, asides from the email handling that they offer, a major benifit of the Blackberry is its intuitive hardware interface/design…

I turned off all email forwarding on my 7100 for the past 3 weeks whilst on business overseas this month and realised that the scroll wheel is really, in my opinion, the most delightful way to move around through an OS, given how small mobile phone screens are!

Anyone know other phones that offer all the gadgets plus use a side-scroll like the BB? I'll head to shops to buy it after the weekend…

By: morituri

morituri — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:24:42 +0000

My favourite so far is still the Treo series. The user interface and operating system (Palm OS) might be 10 years old, but it still works great.

By: sam gonzales

sam gonzales — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:26:41 +0000

I would have to say motorola and nokia have this hands down..