The following is a simple plus minus-list:
+ Price
+ Robust hardware
+ Store with USB Power Adapter
+ No internet key
+ Easy to read Monohrome display (but at best average, there are better)
+ If you know what you're looking for, you get all the features out quickly
+ Essential functions available (alarm clock, calendar, calculator)
- Strange and unintuitive menu navigation (confirm times with the right, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the central button)
- Fully redundant confirmation screens after each setting change
- In the phonebook, only one phone number for each entry, not vCard standard
- In the calendar days of abbreviations English name
- In calendar entries do not simply from the weekly overview with one click callable
- The calendar is no free choice of the alarm function (defined intervals impractical)
- In writing function no simple switch between predictive text and traditional input method (via menu)
- Ringtones atrocious, but polyphonic
- No communication with the outside world, to similar phone numbers, calendar data, ring tones swap - neither IR nor PcSync nor Bluetooth
- No wireless headsets used
- No countdown program (that's as simple and had been very early Nokia mobile phones), I had actually often similar to egg cooking used
- Display always out - you never know if your phone still has juice and can not even just looking at the clock
- When activating, instead of the standard screens, a screen with information, how to pick up the key lock shown (time!)
- Clock too small
- Analog (like old Siemens phones) exists but is not readable because too small ...
Just the simple phones are indeed a lot of business people used (among other things because in some firms cameras are veroten) - a simple way to communicate via USB would make the phone much more usable. Expected you really think that the customer again enters all contacts manually in its new phone?
Conclusion: with zero additional investment that could have been a better phone (menus), with little additional investment (USB Sync) it would have been a super-phone.