Hi guys, please remember to change the topic when the thread drifts off into something slightly or completely different ;)
> Well there's the benq Blackbox concept out there which is essentially a phone > that has a touchscreen all over that does show context sensitive buttons. > However, I'm not entirely sure if the average user would even WANT to deal > with touchscreens over a real keypad. Many even complain over the Razr style > touchpads... In Asia that's not much of an issue but I imagine in the West > ist might very well be. For one thing, my parents never cared for the > touchscreen in my P900 PDA phone... Really? All the time I've watch elder people operating devices I found they were completely puzzled (or at least slightly annoyed) by the conceptional (and physical) gap between an unlabelled physical button (a.k.a softkey) and a label on a screen describing its current function. In my opinion it's a matter of a coherent UI. It's certainly more challenging to get to a good touchscreen UI, but if you have one, I believe that usability can be more efficient than one a hardkey/non-ts UI. Also, I'm not buying the redundancy argument. In my opinion more ways to achieve the same (i.e. by accessing functions through hard buttons, through soft-buttons, and through browsing menus) is more confusing than having just one way to trigger each and every function. Regards, :M: -- Michael 'Mickey' Lauer | IT-Freelancer | http://www.vanille-media.de _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
