New mobile phones

[mathare]

I'm not one to rant much (at least on here) but over the past few years I have noticed a trend that really annoys me - manufacturers/networks not including full user manuals when you but a new mobile phone.

I upgraded to a Samsung Blade (from a 3 year old Sony Ericsson handset) in the week and it comes with a small, slim manual that tells you the basics plus some irrelevant (to me) crap. Can I find a proper user manual to see how this phone works? Can I hell!

I don't know how half the thing works, or why some bits don't seem to work at all when I press them. How am I supposed to find these things out? I have been through the phone simulator on Vodafone's website but that doesn't cover what I want to know. It's like I need to go on a training course now to get the best out of my phone.

I have this one on a 7 day trial period and at this rate it's going back unless someone can show me how to use the thing properly

[MattR]

Mat, I think most phone manuals can be found on the company's websites these days, was it not on there? Cheap way out of course.

[mathare]

I haven't checked the Samsung site explicitly because the phone I have is Vodafone branded (the Blade is the Vodafone version of the S5600) and as such has some different options and other new features exclusive to Vodafone.

[Win2Win]

Not understanding the functions without a manual is a sign of aging :)

[mathare]

Not understanding the functions without a manual is a sign of aging :)

I know!

It's also a sign of the phones getting more complicated than they need to be