We want control of how our phone rings!
C’mon RIM, get it together with those sound profiles already. The blackberry UI is a marvel in user experience. No unnecessary menus, minimalist options, keyboard HFE (human factors engineering) that’s just top-notch.
Yet they fall short in one of the critical areas of the device. Notifications. Here’s what your users are seeking, for starters -
- The ability to create time-based profile switching – phone-only mode after 11pm, work-friendly mode at 9am etc. Even better, an optional meeting mode, based on your calendar.
- Contact exceptions that abide by the overall profile setting – if I set a custom ringtone for a contact, then put my phone in vibrate mode, I want the phone to vibrate even if that contact calls. The custom ring should only apply when the phone is in audible ring modes (loud, phone only etc.)
- Ability to duplicate existing default profiles as a custom profiles – You may want to copy the phone only mode, but modify it slightly so that a partciular email account issues an audible alert – for those that need to remain on-call, for example, but don’t want sleep interrupted by those marketing emails in other accounts at 3am.
- Global message type settings that can be set at a custom level as exceptions – I want all my emails to vibrate 3 times, in vibrate mode. I don’t want to have to set that for each email account. If I need an exception, I can set that for any particular account. E.g. a ‘on-call’ account that dings even in phone only mode.