On Friday 12 October 2007, Oliver wrote: > I've had similar ideas, but haven't posted them yet. Here's one: > > Imagine you're surfing the internet, or checking a map, or something like > that. We don't have a multi-touch screen, so we can't zoom out with our > fingers like iPhone users. Zooming out, though, is something we really > should be able to do. So just hold a hardware button and bring the phone > closer to your face! > > The site/image should be shrunk in such a way that you'll think it is > stationary "behind" the phone, and the phone screen is a window through > which you can view this image/site! When you've spotted something you want > to focus on, somewhere else on the page, don't scroll, just keep holding > the button bringing the phone/window down to that place. If you stop > holding the button, the image can either stay where it is, or go to it's > original zoom-level. > > Just imagine, if you think of the screen as a window, what incredibly fun > games you could develop for the phone!
I think a better idea would be to think of the screen as a mirror that you are using to view a much larger page behind you. That way you can intuitively scroll both vertically and horizontally a large page or map by tilting the screen, and without using the touchscreen. (Which can be reserved for other functions). A lot of UI ideas here are coppied from other touch screen devices. That's fine where appropriate, but the Neo 1973 is the only phone with built in accelerometers, and I think we should make use of them where we can. We should not just copy the iPhone or whatever, that only uses it's accelerometer as a tilt sensor to make the display image the right way up. -- David Pottage _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
