One more post for Friday… I’ve been playing with a Samsung SYNC handset that Cingular sent me a couple of weeks ago, ostensibly to check out their mobile music offerings. I say ostensibly because I’m having a hell of a time getting the thing to work inside my house, since it seems to get really poor reception and jumps back and forth between the 2G and 3G networks quite a bit, then doesn’t work for some other unknown reason half the time.
Anyhow, Cingular touts the SYNC as a music phone, I guess because it has external keys for music playback. Of course, like so many other “music” phones, it uses a stupid proprietary jack for its headset that forces you to use the sucky Samsung headphones. I’m still waiting for some progress on this personal pet peeve of mine.
But this handset comes with a bonus second personal pet peeve: progress bars that aren’t really progress bars. As the video below illustrates, the “progress bar” in the SYNC’s browser (upper left, it’s a little hard to make out) doesn’t really indicate much progress, since it just resets itself after it finishes up. Perhaps the intention isn’t to show progress, just that the browser is doing something but if that’s the case, perhaps there’s a better way it can be illustrated.
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