I got a new phone with my xmas bounty (Thanks Mum & Dad!) and it’s great. A Samsung Google Nexus S it’s an android dream with a curved screen and buckets of charisma (yes OK it’s a phone). The device itself is thus far a complete success – I love<\/b> it. And it was half price in carphone whorehouse so a real bargain to boot.<\/p>\r\n
But … (yes, of course there’s a but) …<\/p>\r\n
The first thing you do with an Android device is to link it to your Google account. About half a day later I received an email inviting me to register my new phone with Samsung, including a handy link to the registration page. Following this link took me to a page which did nothing (header, massive link-heavy footer, nothing inbetween). Hidden away (in the extensive footer full of links), I found a Register your product<\/i> link which asked for my email and my zip code. Nothing else. They’ve got a nice bit of JavaScript validating their form, and perhaps unsurprisingly, an Aberystwyth postcode wasn’t accepted as a ZIP code. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
Then I thought “Maybe I’m on the US site?” so I navigated to Samsung UK, found the Product Registration<\/i> link (note different wording – and on the UK site, at the top right rather than the bottom left). I started to fill it in, but fall at the first hurdle. They’ve got a nice bit of JavaScript validating their form, and it doesn’t like my email hmd@hannahdee.eu. So I tried a different email, and it likes .co.uk so I filled in the other 13 compulsory form fields on the page. Only to find that on submission, it craps out due to a server error. <\/p>
Looks like the phone’s going unregistered then…<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The web design tips I take from this are:<\/P>\r\n
I got a new phone with my xmas bounty (Thanks Mum & Dad!) and it’s great. A Samsung Google Nexus S it’s an android dream with a curved screen and buckets of charisma (yes OK it’s a phone). The device itself is thus far a complete success – I love it. And it was half price in carphone whorehouse so a real bargain to boot. But … (yes, of course there’s a but) … The first thing you do with an Android device is to link it to your Google account. About half a day later I received an email inviting me to register myRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-geekiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}