I noticed that soon all Internet SMS users (which let you send free SMS to Singtel users) will need to register.<\/p>\n
As a sweetener, they’re giving out Motorola cell phones<\/p>\n
Not bad, I’m thinking.<\/p>\n
I get to the registration page and guess what I see.<\/p>\n
![\"Singtel](\"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/singtel-sms.gif\" "\\"Singtel")
<\/p>\n
Looks pretty ok, you might say.<\/p>\n
Until you get to “Agreement between you and SingTel Mobile”<\/p>\n
This contains the terms and conditions for use of the service.<\/p>\n
Pretty standard you might say.<\/p>\n
Being a careful guy, I scroll down to read the t&c, especially if there might be charges involved.<\/p>\n
I’m squinting at the three line display.<\/p>\n
I scroll down. and read more.<\/p>\n
I scroll down. and read more.<\/p>\n
I scroll down. and read more.<\/p>\n
I scroll down. and read more.<\/p>\n
I scroll down. and read more.<\/p>\n
I scroll down. and read more.<\/p>\n
I scroll down. and read more.<\/p>\n
Does this never end?<\/p>\n
My eyes are watering from staring at the miniscule text.<\/p>\n
Frustrated, I copy the entire block of text and paste it in my text editor.<\/p>\n
Turns out it’s about three pages. My word count rates it as 1012 words.<\/p>\n
I contribute regularly to article directories and my articles run 400-500 words.<\/p>\n
This is like reading 2 articles on screen real estate equivalent to my mobile phone.<\/p>\n
It’s take about 200 taps on the scrollbar to read the entire message.<\/p>\n
What’s the deal, SingTel?<\/p>\n
Usability should be one of the key considerations.<\/p>\n
Some things that could be done to improve this:<\/p>\n
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- Increase the display to at least 5 lines<\/li>\n
- Use a larger font size to increase readability (especially appreciated by the long-sighted)<\/li>\n
- The best: have the terms and conditions appear in a pop up window<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We want technology to make things easier, not more difficult.<\/p>\n
Class dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am quite disappointed. Even the prize of a Motorola V3X cell phone doesn’t alleviate my dissatisafaction with “Asia’s leading communications group with operations and investments in more than 20 countries and territories around the world” I went to my favourite page at http:\/\/home.singtel.com\/consumer\/msg_center\/internet_sms.asp intending to send a SMS out to a friend. I noticed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}