On 17 Jul 2007, at 00:06, Clare Johnstone wrote:
Hi Jonathon, How would you manage when there are a lot of names? My phone is also my phone book, and has pages of names in small print. This is why I choose a phone with a good screen and a stylus.
I can't answer for jonathon, but there are many ways to deal with it. Groups, timeline (recently contacted people), searches (enter partial name), visual search (photo contacts), male/female, region/city, hell you could even plot them on a map and touch a city (I've been using my Nintendo Wii too much lol).
A few of the above have never been implemented in any device, I just think they're good ideas :)
I don't altogether understand the rationale of insisting on fingers when there are so many pixels which can present easily read detail.
Styluses get dropped, fall apart etc. Have you ever bought an mp3 player that used a stylus? nope, yet you manage to navigate through music with one.
Also I don't understand why there is so much emphasis on a mass market which is already well catered for; possibly to the detriment of the niche market which wants a lot of functionality fom the device. This little phone should be able to replace the laptop a lot of the time, taking notes in meetings for example (which i already do on my phone, small and above all quiet.) The improvement with the neo will be the easy transfer of such files to the PC(linux).
It's called being ambitious and making a difference. The same could be said about Linux but there's a lot of people who want to see it have greater marketshare. The greater marketshare the easier it is to convince hardware vendors to provide Linux support.
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