My father in law wants to upgrade his mobile phone (he has a simple and cheap Nokia phone which is a few years old).
He went to an electronics store, and they sold him a 150 Euros Samsung smart phone.
Of course, he got home and had no clue whatsoever on how to use it, connect it to his Mac to download photos (or even answer a phone call).
So he came visiting with pizzas and beer, and I tried to figure it out. I could not.
I will admit that it was my first time with Android, and it probably was a pretty old version of Android but… what an utterly piece of crap!
The UI is totally confusing, and the very poor Italian localisation doesn’t help. I had to google (on my iPhone) to find even the simplest commands (for example: why is USB configuration in the “Networking” panel?). And even after one hour, I could not get it to download photos when connected with the USB cable (iPhoto would “see” the phone, but there were no images to download).
And once configured with the gmail account, suddenly there were notifications in three different apps: email, gmail and social hub. Why?
For his sanity (and mine), I convinced him to take it back and ask for his money back.
Of course, now I have to find a simple phone with three features: calls, SMS and a decent camera. The less smart, the better. Nokia used to make phones with pretty good cameras, but now good cameras only seem to be available on the Lumia series.
Any recommendations?