Sprint Makes Stuff Ugly

So one phone that people have been eye with great anticipation is Samsung’s SGH-F490, mostly because of the ultra hawt “criss-cross” UI…

Aside from looking user interface, its has a 5 mega pixel camera, a standard headphone jack (YES… seriously, why the in the h*ll doesn’t all phones support this I’ll never know), and tons of memory, it’s…. only coming to Europe. In February for €530, or around $790, so its also hella expensive. Oh well. BUT, it was recently revealed that the phone… or at least, a “variant” of it, was picked up by Sprint for domestic release. And here’s the first shot of the American version!

Yeah, I know. WTF indeed. Now, the device is technically the SPH-M800, so it may not be the same thing as the SGH-F490. Actually it’s not; this other device only has a 2 mega pixel camera, plus has lost the flash, but confirms to America’s faster internet surfing speeds, which is a not too bad trade-off. Plus the button face buttons are slightly different, but for the most part, at least in my eyes, its the same damn phone. But with the most fugly UI make-over I have seen.

It’s so ugly that it seriously makes me mad. I mean, what was the point of changing it? Just for the sake of doing so? I would expect such a hatched job from Verizon, but Sprint? Come one? And of all the folks out there, they easily have the coolest logo. I personally would not have minded the same criss-cross graphics, but instead of blue, yellow.

What’s wrong; are Americans too stupid to understand the icons on the SGH-F490, so they have to be all colorful and cartoony, but worst of all, literally needs stuff to be spelled out on the bottom? Guess having it up on top doesn’t work, cuz that required the user to look around a tiny bit. For Christ’s sake… Anyone who knows anything about icons that, if you have to literally explain what it’s supposed to represent, then it fails at what its supposed to do.

Like how on the bottom row of the Sprint hand held, the smiley face icon/button that has the word “fun”. Oh God… if I think about this anymore, I’m going to get a headache.