>> Sorry for the late reply, I was in a vacation (laptop-free one) for a week, >> and then was busy with r/l. >> To tell you the truth, although you are a "living example" I don't think >> many people use the sim card, and to be honest, the sim card sucks and is >> very limited. > You have already declared your opinion; I and several others have pointed > out that it is not the opinion of us all. Stating it again doesn't help. > If you won't acknowledge that there is a valid use case involving the > storage of numbers in the SIM for portability, it seems likely to me > that those of us depending on it are going to be ill-served by the > resulting development.
I agree. Many people store their contacts on the SIM and SIM only. > >> Furthermore, saving your info on the sim is bad, because it's not backed-up, >> you should probably store it somewhere you can backup from and then sync to >> all your phones. >> Though that's only my pov. :) > I've had a GSM phone for more than 10 years and needed to restore > my SIM from a backup once, when the phone was stolen. By contrast, > I've lost dozens of numbers and messages in the past months through > buggy software and upgrades on SHR, some of which have not been easily > recoverable from backups for one reason or another, so in my opinion > based on recent experience, saving my info in the SIM is entirely good. > > Personally, until I'm convinced that the alternative is sufficiently > stable and portable, I want the SIM as my primary storage of numbers---I'm > prepared to live with the limitations of richness of data that entails. > I don't think I'm alone in this, but we don't need a majority vote to > agree that this use is valid. You're not alone. Yes, the SIM has it limitations, but it is ultra portable and reliable. >From a user experience, there is very little added value of having a full >blown contact management on your phone, if you can't store your basic contact >info on your SIM by default. Having to do some magic trickery to get the contacts on the SIM and praying it will work, because of all sorts of alpha state software dependencies, is not what people are waiting for. Niels. _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: helpt je meer voor elkaar te krijgen. http://windows.microsoft.com/nl-BE/windows7/products/home?os=win7 _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
