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Posted by hipstomp | 6 Mar 2007
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Steve Jobs threw the gauntlet down, and HTC, well, they just kind of ignored it.
Jobs' interface philosophy with the iPhone is that multi-function devices ought not have dedicated buttons for part-time functions; hence, the touch-screen. The buttons you want to press materialize when, and only when, you want to press them (which should sound familiar to my ex-girlfriend.)
HTC's new PDA phone, the Wing S730 (spotted on iTechNews) has a completely opposite design philosophy: it has two keypads (one for phoning, one for typing) and even two cameras (one for snapping flicks, the other for videoconferencing).
Both phones are coming out around July. Which design credo will win?
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ive been completely intigued by this buttonless iphone! palm and everyone else in the past have unsuccesfully tried to come up with a buttonless pda or phone so i wanna see what apple can do...or will buttons and/or keyboards appear in 3rd or 4th generations later?
I'm sorry, but I really don't think that anyone can be as fast or as efficient at texting/typing on a phone with no physical keypad, as opposed to one that does.
Maybe if the screen had raised bumps embedded for each virtual key, that would be of some assistance when it came time to type...
Well, the idea is good but a basic practice amongst humans is that they remember things ( read functions) by their spatial loaction. With each application having having different button set and on top of that no hard keys will make it difficult for users to use the iphone. And the biggest challenge would be for the gamers, who are used to hard keys on the phone, how will they use multitouch to play their favourite games. Anybody who has tried to play games on an ipod would know the pain of using the scroll wheel for gaming!
I fear that the touch screen display cannot be so easy and strong as a traditional keypad