Just Stupid

Well, I was actually going to write the second (and probably final) part of Light at the End of the Tunnel but some things are just too provoking (and I'm not at the end of the tunnel yet anyway).

My folks bought a new phone device today, probably the cheapest device in the whole store, but that's not really a justification for the piece of crap this device turned out to be.
What can be so terrible about a simple phone device? Well, I'll supply an example, and please keep in mind that this is after only a ten minutes interaction with the device, I'm actually a bit curious to discover what other flaws the device has...
To the example then. My dad opens the box, connects the phone and tries to dial... nothing. Apparently someone had a "brilliant" idea, the device has a lock (see picture below) that somehow reminds the ages when computers used to had locks - didn't find an image of that one (and didn't look to hard either), anyway, the purpose of the lock is to block calls to certain numbers: it has three modes - dial any number, don't dial any number and dial only numbers that don't start with an '0'. Those three modes are represented by three colors: red, yellow and green, at least it's trivial which color represents which mode, that's right, red is "dial anywhere" and green is "forget about dialing", someone else thinks that's extremely stupid? If you take a close look at the picture you'll also notice that there's no real way to know at what position the lock is now (yeah, it's not green), very amusing. What adds to the amusement, considering the fact that the phone didn't came "red" by default, is that the Hebrew version of the user's guide doesn't have a single word about the lock.
And if that wasn't enough I have another example. The device has a speaker, so you'd probably expect to be able to dial a number, press the speaker button and have a conversation rolling, not with this one. Once you press the speaker button the number typed disappears and you're welcome to type in a new number, so you have to press the speaker button before dialing or use some commando techniques such as pressing the redial button after the number you typed has dissolved - that's a bit weird since you didn't really "dial" that number before, oh well.

A home phone device is supposed to be as simple as possible to use and trivial to understand for everyone, this one has definitely failed this test. Just Stupid.