On 7/16/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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).
I really like this contextual approach(maybe it means you need to use your wii more? ) I can think of a lot of times where I was trying to remember someone's name, plus it would help when you're looking back through your phonebook, and you've got a lot of people who you don't know who they are (I've got a few that I remember were important, but can't for the life of me remember why) 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.
To try to bring everyone together, isn't this what the spinner is for? if you cart around your stylus, or are really precise with your thumbnail, you can touch the contact you want, otherwise, just scroll with the spinner ala ipod
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.
you really think the mass market is well catered to? Personally, I think they just put up with a lot of crap from their cellphones because "that's just how phones are". I was told by a t-mobile(then voicestream) service person that since my old nokia was like a "little computer" I could expect to re-boot it regularly (I tried to explain the falsehood there... then I walked away). It's not the mass market that's catered to, it's the telecom operators. Putting on my pragmatic hat, if we open this up to the mass market, make it something everyone wants, we get the money to make more devices: Imagine where the apple newton would be if they'd had the cash to keep evolving... Sean is a really good guy, but I don't think he's willing to keep pouring his money into this for years, putting himself into the poorhouse, and his employees with him, just because he has a really cool device... our little community just isn't enough to keep a hardware company afloat -- Jeff O|||||||O
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