Hello, Don Ferguson. On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:23:01 -0500 you said:
> these, right?!?!) than the products of Microsoft. They just don't pay > enough attention to making the UI efficient in any of their products. > Just look at the main Google page if you want evidence of this: see how > many clicks it takes to get to Blogger, or Documents, or Groups? And > this from a nearly EMPTY PAGE! Anyway, if Palm falls, I'll likely be a > RIM customer once the keys fall off my last Palm device. Research in I'm surprising myself with this: I'm actually beginning to consider an iPhone as a potential replacement down the road. It does have a very nice UI, and I tried out the on-screen keyboard and found it's quite usable. Certainly no less usable than the Treo's, and maybe a bit more; I find the keyboard on the Treo is best used by both of my thumbs which means that I must hold it with two hands, and the iPhone's with two or three fingers of one hand which in my quick test, I found to be faster and more accurate. And it's designed for finger use rather than stylus use so there are little things that make text-cursor movement and placement easier. But there are two things about it +as is+ that causes me to not want the current model: For a phone designed with multimedia use in mind, it's storage is not big enough for me yet, and it's still locked out of third party apps. The fact that it's locked to one carrier is only a minor niggle to me because I use AT&T anyway and the only real reason I bought my current Treo unlocked is because it was cheaper for me that way. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol "Aim towards the Enemy." - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
