Not surprising to me at all. I expect that the iPhone will be a very cool user experience, except for text entry. I've tried several of those touch screen home theater remote controls, and there's a reason the best ones still have real buttons for on/off fast forward, play, rewind, etc, etc.
Buttons are good. That's the reason the Blackberry grew up. That's the reason the Treo is successful. I just hope that the UI experience on the iPhone can be ported in some ways to the Treo. It would be cool to be able to do that zoom/pan thing in the Blazer followon, to flip through things in the contacts or pTunes, etc. etc. Cool, but not necessary. I like cool, but I always come back to necessary. I'd like it if they were both in the same box. Cheers, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Froehle Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: keyboards I read a review somewhere from a guy who had over an hour of hands-on time with the iPhone and he found the on-screen keyboard to be very unresponsive and totally unsuitable for thumb-typing. he said the most effective way was typing with one's index finger just like in the videos (a la hunt and peck, literally). Sounds awful to me. On 25 Jun 2007 19:43:00 -0600, daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point about texting -- I wonder how fast or accurate SMS will be when the tactile, relative position of Treo keys (+orienting bump on the 5/F key) is replaced by the visual, minute distance between iPhone soft keys that feel like slippery glass. > > I don't think there'll be many "eyes-closed" iPhone texters. > > ~d > > > -----Original Message----- > From: J Messeder > > Only if Palm goes back to handwriting recognition on-screen. > And even then, there are folks who've become used to the keyboard and wouldn't want to give it up. But my own unscientific opinion is the people who are buying Treos, most of whom as work devices, I'd wager, will probably buy the keyboard over > the not-keyboard -- and will probably get used to the virtual keyboard the way others of us touch type -- one key feels like another, but if you're good at it, you just know when you've hit the wrong key. I'm guessing the users of toys -- the kids, most of whom can text-message a telephone with their eyes closed -- with the wherewithal to pay $500-$600, will go for the latest i-line, and the Treo and Blackberry (and a few other similar, as relates to a QWERTY keyboard, users will go for a keyboard that at least looks like the one on their desk -- or they'll write on the screen, if they can. > >
