Unable to answer call

[Guest Wizard]

My SPV rang today, so I sprinted up the stairs and grabbed it. I pressed the unhook button to answer the call. Nothing. As usual for doing pretty much anything on the SPV the user interface locked up. About a second later the handset displayed the message "Unable to answer call" and then froze again. I battled my way through to the call history to return the call, selected the relevant item and looked for the "Call" option. Can I find it? Can I buggery.

Experiences like that leave me thinking the SPV is a complete joke as a mobile phone. If I can't answer calls and do basic operations like return missed calls, that's a fairly serious pair of limitations!

Wizard

[Guest Danlance]

My SPV rang today, so I sprinted up the stairs and grabbed it. I pressed the unhook button to answer the call. Nothing. As usual for doing pretty much anything on the SPV the user interface locked up. About a second later the handset displayed the message "Unable to answer call" and then froze again.

This will probably be because you pressed answer call at same time as caller hung up (its a bug) - happenned to me a few times...

I battled my way through to the call history to return the call, selected the relevant item and looked for the "Call" option. Can I find it?

When you have the number / caller highlighted, press the green button - this calls the selected number/caller

[Guest Wizard]

Thanks for the reply. Now much as it's great to know *why*, it is deeply frustrating to have to come to an internet message board to find out.

I hope that you MS boys and girls will do your very best to make the user interface more intuitive. e.g. even if the green button calls someone in the Call History, add a menu item anyway for fools like me :-)

Wizard, MVP ASP.NET

[Guest rvanr]

Hi

I'm not a 'Microsoft guy', but I can imagine what their reply is: we have to find a balance between an operating system where every choice is available everywhere, fully menu driven and usable through shortcut keys and one that only does the basics and relies on the user's intelligence or intuition for everything.

If they go for the first option you get a bloated, slow operating system (some people say that this is exactly what Windows is now :wink: ). If they go for the second option you get something smaller and faster that is only usable by nerds or people who like to invest a lot of their time in learning how to use it.

In general Microsoft have found the balance that works for me, but I realise that there are a lot of people who do not share this view and that is why Microsoft's market domination is so bad, but hey: that's capitalism (topic for another board :D )

Ruud