Have you eva bought something with no instructions

and not known how to operate it?
I bought a retractable biro/pen and could not work out how to get the nib to come out. I messed around for 10 minutes and tossed it aside in frustration.
I took it to work and waited until someone asked me for a pen. Gave him the childproof one, he could not work it out either.
Gave it to another person, they worked it out in 10 seconds.
Needed to move the pocket clip down the length of the pen. 🙂

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Yes.

A so-called "smart"-telephone.

An LG2017; that also the year in which I bought it.

Awful thing, but not just because it had no instructions.

Eventually I sold it, paid the contract (I realised I'd pay more than my previous arrangements, to which I returned) and bought a low-cost, basic DORO 'phone.

Voice telephony was a sort of auxiliary function on the LG, which I sold to my sister. It is the DORO's primary function, with text a rather awkward secondary. This is the instrument I use now, on PAYG.

I kept missing calls on the LG, partly because I never use my portable 'phone switched on and glued to me all the time. Though with no instructions, it was extremely difficult to make calls and virtually impossible to listen and reply to voice messages. Text messages were not much easier.

It was full of gimmicks I neither need or want.

Physically bulky and heavy too; but probably the same as any other "smart"-'phone. I expect they are all much the same despite brand-name and casing style anyway, from the same few designers and assembly-lines; differing primarily in programming.

Such same-ness is called "badge engineering" by owners of mass-produced, Asian-made workshop machinery finished in different retailers' colours. Only, such machines do come with operating and servicing manuals.