iPhone is not user-friendly because it lacks some basic phone controls

iPhone is still a nice thing. And the recent software updates have been improving it. For example, originally you could set the passphrase requirement to either “immediately” or “after one minute”, which was too short for me. But the software updates have fixed this and I can now have a longer timeout.

Yet there’s still one control missing that disturbs me a lot.

When a call arrives, I can only answer it but not reject it.

Sounds frivolous for a phone, doesn’t it? And bordering on completely clueless. Especially from Apple who is supposed to know all about making nice things and nice interfaces… In fact it’s so outrageous that I think I’ll type it again…

When a call arrives, I can only answer it but not reject it.

Ok… it’s not entirely true. When the phone is unlocked and a call comes, there are two buttons as you’d expect: “Answer” and “Decline”. But seriously, when the phone is sitting in your pocket with keylock on (as it is for me most of time) and a call comes and you rush to see who’s calling, there’s only one control: “Slide to answer”. There is no decline, no send to voicemail, no nothing. I’d expect to be able to at least decline, if not send to voicemail. My old phone and all previous phones have been able to decline calls for years. So… seriously, Apple. Come on. The iPhone is a nice thing. And yes, many people are praising it a lot. And I also have found it very useful. But basic phone stuff should still work, eh?