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Originally Posted by philh View Post
A colleague of mine bought Samsung Galaxy Apollo, a nice little simple phone but she came to me saying she doesn't know how to put it into silent mode. OK I said I`m not really an Android expert just pass me the manual and I`ll have a look. I almost burst out laughing when I read the instruction: "go to the phone application and press and hold the # key on the keypad"!!!

I mean I`m sure there is a better way and that the phone was running 2.1 Eclair but to put this in the manual as an official and easiest way is amusing. Samsung, you have touchscreens now with pull-down menus etc! It just confirmed for me that I made a good decision to let Android mature for couple of years before I jump aboard, if ever.
On the Htc Hero, going further down with the volume rocker makes the phone go into "silent" and then "vibration" mode. Very nice and intuitive. Wouldn't work that much on n900 that uses different volume levels based on call status, headphones and so on (pretty nice too).