WM6 Bugs: The Delete Command

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=4216

"In the new Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the menus for the Messaging application have been changed a bit. The most obvious is that the left softkey has been changed from “New” to “Delete”. The reasoning behind this is that most people have to delete a lot of spam on their phones and they wanted to make deleting messages easier. I don’t know who was surveyed for that data, but in my opinion, this was not thought out very well at all. Personally, I never delete messages on my phone."

Since I have yet to get my hands on a WM6 device I cant say if this would bother me or not. I'm not sure why it is being called a bug here though. I thought everything was a "feature". :lol:

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=4216

"In the new Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the menus for the Messaging application have been changed a bit. The most obvious is that the left softkey has been changed from “New” to “Delete”. The reasoning behind this is that most people have to delete a lot of spam on their phones and they wanted to make deleting messages easier. I don’t know who was surveyed for that data, but in my opinion, this was not thought out very well at all. Personally, I never delete messages on my phone."

Since I have yet to get my hands on a WM6 device I cant say if this would bother me or not. I'm not sure why it is being called a bug here though. I thought everything was a "feature". :lol:

[11244]

I love that function.

Im getting more than 30 spam messages a day and i believe they did the right thing.

You recieve more messages than you send normally.

//11244

[rancyland]

Ditto - my Dash is on its way to Houston for a display replacement (d'oh!) and I'm back to my SDA - I miss that Delete soft key more than I thought I would.

[Hyer]

I like the delet key as well, the one that bugs me is the right softkey on the home screen defaults to contacts. Well if your looking for contact from the home screen you just start inputing their name to do the search, so I never use the softkey. It should be configurable, I for one would much rather it link to my email, I am sick of scrolling all the way down to get to email!

[Jerry Raia]

The keys should be user configurable. Then we could have it how we want it. What a concept! :roll:

[applejosh]

I think it would bug me. I rarely delete email using my device (most of the time I'm onsite connected to OWA). Plus my email address isn't a spam target yet, and I think my company utilizes two spam filters anyway (one is the IMF in Exchange and the second one I think is a spam service). I can see where if someone uses their device almost exclusively, is rarely at their desktop, and has no spam filtering capabilities that this would be useful. But as Jerry said, user configurable would be the ideal solution.

[scottb]

Although I tend to use the Delete function more than the New function, I don't see the advantage. It still take two keypresses to delete.

[craigrens]

Originally Posted by scottb

Although I tend to use the Delete function more than the New function, I don't see the advantage. It still take two keypresses to delete.

You can change the setting to immediately delete rather than prompt in WM6 on the Dash.

I'm with the configurable would be nice. However, I delete a great deal more e-mails than I create new ones...so I'm happy with the current option.

[nutzareus]

One-step delete in WM6 is much better than two-step delete in WM5! :clap: Even though I have spam filtering on Exchange, it's great to be able to quickly delete messages.

[vincenzosi]

Originally Posted by Jerry Raia

The keys should be user configurable. Then we could have it how we want it. What a concept! :roll:

My thought's exactly.

Seriously, why isn't it? When you think about how much easier that would make life...

Anyway, yes, Jerry, I agree wholeheartedly.