Talk about Talking
Remember, I’ve been almost completely incommunicado for the past couple of weeks (inadvertently and intentionally). I mixed metaphors in a recent entry, but I hope to redeem myself in this one. Minutes after whipping up my communications communication report, Vik Dendi blasted me a URL with a screen capture of the potential iPhone device. It’s the first semi-legit presentation I’d seen of Apple’s alleged entry into the telecommunications arena. “Many functions. No buttons.” Sounds interesting, but I gotta say that I’ve always disliked (to an extreme degree) any phone that lacked tactile feedback. When I want to mash “5″, I don’t want “4″ or “44″ or “45″ or any other digit series! Then again, I argue that an input device is diseased if it doesn’t have at least two buttons and a scroll wheel.
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3 Comments
Jitterin' Thoughts
December 22nd, 2006
at 8:30pm
to my ear. I also agree with Chris that not having tactile feedback from buttons is bad (at least for numbers). There’s a reason why some phones are better than others. Some are more like a phone and others aren’t. I don’t like the others… (via Chris)
Computer.Blog
May 5th, 2007
at 12:40pm
be doing chat in the first place. Live chat, of any kind, is only as strong as the room’s active members and moderators. Stop creating community (communication) silos, please? Please? chat, irc, live video, online community Related Content: Talk about Talking Talk about Talking Breakin’ the Law RSS, OPML, Tag, Bookmark Icons Pirillo’s Picks for 02/21/2007 Blog Apathy Disorder (BAD) TechTV: Rebuilt by Community? Decompressing Customer Service Conversations, I
LordKaT
December 21st, 2006
at 4:43pm
If companies are going to go the button-less touch-screen route, then they should put in a rumble feature when you finger over a key (and only actually input the key when you lift your finger off the screen).