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- Wow - that's a pretty wonky comparison.
"OK now I'm going to compare the device I'm holding to one I've only ever seen in picture. I think it's pretty clear that in terms of usability, that the device I'm holding comes out on top".
I have my doubts about the day in/day out usability of the iphone but ya know, I like to base my evaluation on user experience rather than.. em.. guess work based on a jpeg image and a sorta-maybe-wellnotreally emulation program running on the device I'm holding.
it's old-fashioned I know...01-15-2007 01:42 PMLike 0 - Wow - that's a pretty wonky comparison.
"OK now I'm going to compare the device I'm holding to one I've only ever seen in picture. I think it's pretty clear that in terms of usability, that the device I'm holding comes out on top".
I have my doubts about the day in/day out usability of the iphone but ya know, I like to base my evaluation on user experience rather than.. em.. guess work based on a jpeg image and a sorta-maybe-wellnotreally emulation program running on the device I'm holding.
it's old-fashioned I know...01-15-2007 02:20 PMLike 0 -
- i agree. i want to try typing on the iphone myself before passing judgement. i will also say that the issue of the virtual keyboard has been my one and only question mark since its announcement. right now, i have to look at the keyboard to some degree whether typing on my Treo or Pearl.01-15-2007 03:25 PMLike 0
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Obviously knowing how usable the UI is would have to wait until a hands on demo.
01-16-2007 10:19 AMLike 0 - What do you all think if the iPhone were a slider? Choice to use a keyboard/keypad or not? Obviously they'd have to change the length of the screen, otherwise the phone would be too long open, but that might have stopped the "we can't live without a keyboard or keypad" problem.01-16-2007 11:55 AMLike 0
- Diva,
Since the iPhone's announcement, I have been using my fingers on my Treo 650 touchscreen, which of course is much smaller than iPhone's screen, to determine if dialing alone will be a problem for me when the iPhone arrives. Previously, I have been a keyboard user. Surprisingly, it's been okay. In the mix of things, Apple is claiming to have improved the touchscreen technology with "multi-touch" -- in the end that might be okay to convert to iPhone.
What do you all think if the iPhone were a slider? Choice to use a keyboard/keypad or not? Obviously they'd have to change the length of the screen, otherwise the phone would be too long open, but that might have stopped the "we can't live without a keyboard or keypad" problem.01-16-2007 01:53 PMLike 0 - Why so grim? Why so gloom? Why so doom? If you are right, that there is little to be excited about with iPhone, in June 2007, then we will post a thread titled:
SURUR WAS RIGHT! And then we'll all run back and cling to our HTCs and Treos much tighter.
01-16-2007 02:00 PMLike 0 - What do you all think if the iPhone were a slider? Choice to use a keyboard/keypad or not? Obviously they'd have to change the length of the screen, otherwise the phone would be too long open, but that might have stopped the "we can't live without a keyboard or keypad" problem.
Surur01-16-2007 02:01 PMLike 0 -
I am glad an increasing backlash is starting against the device. Hopefully by the time it launches people who buy the IPhone will look similar idiots to the people who paid for an overpriced, gimmicky PS3 with ironically also no 3rd party software of note.
Surur01-16-2007 02:06 PMLike 0 - Honestly I bet the average consumer really just saw the iPhone hype in passing. TV quit talking about it over the weekend from what I've seen. Only us "techie" people keep talking about it.
Are people really drooling over the iPhone or just the few who post on tech boards?01-16-2007 07:09 PMLike 0 - I think it can be a HUGE problem. Screen durability and possibilty of the screen shorting out eventually from all that touching. God forbid someone drops the iPhone!! Will the screen break or get all wacky when you try to use it again?01-16-2007 07:13 PMLike 0
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Surur01-16-2007 08:06 PMLike 0 - What do you all think if the iPhone were a slider? Choice to use a keyboard/keypad or not? Obviously they'd have to change the length of the screen, otherwise the phone would be too long open, but that might have stopped the "we can't live without a keyboard or keypad" problem.
) - anyway I'll wait to hear other opinions on the actual usability..too expensive right now for my tastes, not to mention a few issues in its present form.
01-16-2007 08:22 PMLike 0 - i agree. i want to try typing on the iphone myself before passing judgement. i will also say that the issue of the virtual keyboard has been my one and only question mark since its announcement. right now, i have to look at the keyboard to some degree whether typing on my Treo or Pearl.
One thing is though that one has to look at the keyboard to type, and that typing is too handed.01-17-2007 04:06 AMLike 0 - What do you all think if the iPhone were a slider? Choice to use a keyboard/keypad or not? Obviously they'd have to change the length of the screen, otherwise the phone would be too long open, but that might have stopped the "we can't live without a keyboard or keypad" problem.
tough to say that something is or isn't going to work until it is actually used. i've been a skeptic about the keyboard since its announcement but having now seen the onscreen image of the virtual keyboard i'm less so. at this point i simply need to type on it to determine if it will work for my needs.01-17-2007 06:49 AMLike 0 -
shorting? c'mon...01-17-2007 06:53 AMLike 0
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