Ricardo Seiji wrote:
Some people has difficult to understand how to relate a set of 20 buttons to one small screen. Access an icon in the bottom of a grid menu, demands the user to press 5 keys. With touchscreen is just one tap in the icon. Does this compensates the lack of haptic from the screen?
"one tap of the icon" assuming you have a steady hand and good eyes. Try using it on the bus with one hand on a strap and a bag hanging off the other elbow...
I think a lot of the touch screen hyperbole is, well, hyperbole. I'm not sure I understand the all-or-nothing obsession when it comes to touchscreens.
For example, there's the XV6800 which has a touch screen and a small number of "phone buttons", nav buttons, select, and a couple of soft keys. I can use it one-handed quite easily using the nav/select buttons or if I'm in a position to use it two-handed, I can use the touch-screen or use the flip-out keyboard.
I've borrowed iPhones and the inability to use the majority of the functions one-handed is a real deal-breaker. (Yes, I know, you (collective) can use your iPhone perfectly well with one hand, but like all the iPhone users I see on campus, you *choose* to use it two-handed. :-) We just got a free iTouch with a laptop purchase, I'm going to try and borrow it to see how I like it compared to my 5G iPod.
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