It easy to exercise good common sense when you have had to the opportunity to read this thread ahead of time. According to one of your post's from yesterday you don't even have your DX in hand yet.In all honesty, just by simply looking at this "pull tab" 1 of 2 things would come to mind. Well if you have any common sense at all.
1) Ohh look this spiffy little tab is in some way associated with the battery! (this leads to again 1 of 2 things)
1a) To remove the battery easily, allowing the upper portion to be lifted out of the Droid unit.
1b) To completly remove the tab to allow the contact points of the battery to nestle into the contact points in the device. (now at this point with this step, some, but not all would look at the battery and see that the contact points are obviously not located where this "pull tab" is located.
2) Ohh look, a pull tab that says "pull". lets place the battery in and see if this interfeirs with the batterys placement!
2a) No this doesn't complicate the batterys placement, and this tab helps me to remove the battery so I can change it or access my mcro SD card slot.
2b) (not the case but I will list it anyways) Ohh the battery doesn't fit because this tab must be in the way!...
That concludes my breakdown of this tab, the designers, I agree, must have thought their users would be smart enough without a 10 step guide on how to remove the battery, to NOT include it into the quick start guide.
I am NOT calling anyone stupid, I am just stating that when you get your hands on an item reguardless of what it is, a car, a phone, a microwave oven, when the cost is $600, before you start yanking on cords, or tabs or strings, just use common sense to see WHAT they MIGHT be USED for. It will save you A LOT of hastle and keep you from looking, or appearing to look stupid to others.
Edited for spelling errors, hey I am not perfect either!
It easy to exercise good common sense when you have had to the opportunity to read this thread ahead of time. According to one of your post's from yesterday you don't even have your DX in hand yet.In all honesty, just by simply looking at this "pull tab" 1 of 2 things would come to mind. Well if you have any common sense at all.
1) Ohh look this spiffy little tab is in some way associated with the battery! (this leads to again 1 of 2 things)
1a) To remove the battery easily, allowing the upper portion to be lifted out of the Droid unit.
1b) To completly remove the tab to allow the contact points of the battery to nestle into the contact points in the device. (now at this point with this step, some, but not all would look at the battery and see that the contact points are obviously not located where this "pull tab" is located.
2) Ohh look, a pull tab that says "pull". lets place the battery in and see if this interfeirs with the batterys placement!
2a) No this doesn't complicate the batterys placement, and this tab helps me to remove the battery so I can change it or access my mcro SD card slot.
2b) (not the case but I will list it anyways) Ohh the battery doesn't fit because this tab must be in the way!...
That concludes my breakdown of this tab, the designers, I agree, must have thought their users would be smart enough without a 10 step guide on how to remove the battery, to NOT include it into the quick start guide.
I am NOT calling anyone stupid, I am just stating that when you get your hands on an item reguardless of what it is, a car, a phone, a microwave oven, when the cost is $600, before you start yanking on cords, or tabs or strings, just use common sense to see WHAT they MIGHT be USED for. It will save you A LOT of hastle and keep you from looking, or appearing to look stupid to others.
Edited for spelling errors, hey I am not perfect either!
My common sense says maybe you would have or maybe you wouldn't have. But because of Droid Forums and this thread you surely won't.
Mike
In all honesty, just by simply looking at this "pull tab" 1 of 2 things would come to mind. Well if you have any common sense at all.
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That concludes my breakdown of this tab, the designers, I agree, must have thought their users would be smart enough without a 10 step guide on how to remove the battery, to NOT include it into the quick start guide.
I am NOT calling anyone stupid, I am just stating that when you get your hands on an item reguardless of what it is, a car, a phone, a microwave oven, when the cost is $600, before you start yanking on cords, or tabs or strings, just use common sense to see WHAT they MIGHT be USED for. It will save you A LOT of hastle and keep you from looking, or appearing to look stupid to others.
What an appalling analogy.
In all honesty, just by simply looking at this "pull tab" 1 of 2 things would come to mind. Well if you have any common sense at all.
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That concludes my breakdown of this tab, the designers, I agree, must have thought their users would be smart enough without a 10 step guide on how to remove the battery, to NOT include it into the quick start guide.
I am NOT calling anyone stupid, I am just stating that when you get your hands on an item reguardless of what it is, a car, a phone, a microwave oven, when the cost is $600, before you start yanking on cords, or tabs or strings, just use common sense to see WHAT they MIGHT be USED for. It will save you A LOT of hastle and keep you from looking, or appearing to look stupid to others.
And yet, here you are inferring that very thing.
You're quite right, you don't randomly start yanking on cords or tabs when buying expensive devices (although quoting the X's unlocked price is a little disingenuous; very few people will be paying that price). However, if one of the aforementioned tabs said "pull", I might be inclined to do so, given no obvious reason not to.
I've owned dozens of phones (including, notably, 2 RAZRs) and portable devices, this is the first time I've seen a tab to remove a battery. I'm quite sure there are other devices requiring such a tab, but I question whether it is standard practice and, moreover, something people encounter often enough not to pull when instructed to do so. Indeed, if you own an inkjet printer, you're surely used to pulling tabs off the metal contacts before inserting the cartridge.
If it was a few people lacking common sense, Motorola wouldn't have changed the design.
What an appalling analogy.
People are not randomly subjecting their Droids to the shallow end of the Evolutionary pool; they're pulling a tab, marked pull, when there is no compelling reason not to do so.
The comparison is utterly flawed. I am not instructed to delete c:\system (to which I assume you're referring to c:\windows\system, of course) when buying a new PC. I'm not instructed to randomly rip parts from my Ferrari, when purchasing said car.
I'm not arguing, either. I'm countering what I believe to be flawed assertions. At this point, they don't appear to be particularly defensible.
See above. As you have not actually pulled the tab in the manner described, you're perhaps unaware of how easily it detaches from the phone itself. It required very little pressure. In fact, I believe there was a small perforation, aiding the ease of removal.
No one at fault, just a friendly reminder not to divulge into name calling or flaming
Thanks!
