Originally Posted by tpuiatti

My new i7500 arrived today. This dedicated side screen lock button is spoiling an otherwise beautiful phone for me.

Why is the damn thing there? The whole point is that Android has it's native software lock (screen pattern). It means you have to hold and press the small side key every screen time out and then do the screen pattern too instead of a single key press on one of the front keys followed by screen pattern. From the user guide it doesn't look like it can be disabled either and turning off the timeout doesn't solve it as it means the phone won't lock at all. Perhaps it isn't/won't be a big deal for others but I find it really irritating and it was just an unnecessary bit of hardware design which doesn't integrate with the OS. Maybe I'll put up with it but I really hope..."there's an app for that"