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Usability

December 5, 2006

A catastrophic error message

Now, I've seen some error dialogs in my time. Some are informative, some are incomphrensible and some - like this gem that Sony Ericsson have put together - are just plain scary

What had actually happened (I think) was that it was busy querying my K800i when the signal dropped - I was on a train after all. So I'd rather it have just suggested something along those lines rather than proposing that the world was about to end.

Who'd have thought that a simple "Mobile Networking Wizard" was fraught with such danger?

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