Portability of Customizable and/or Adaptive User Interfaces

This March my workplace issued employees a Motorola i760 cell phone, which apart from being pretty sluggish, doesn’t work the same way as my personal phone, a Nokia 3100 – the menus aren’t the same, shortcuts are different, and so on. What I discovered a few minutes after receiving the phone was that the User Interface was customizable, which didn’t cause the phone to suck less, but only to work the same way as my Nokia did….

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