The vanishing images is Google Maps, not the iPhone. It will work if
you find an area with high-res satellite coverage.
On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:
Actually, I'm able to type quite fast with a single finger on my
iPhone, but my hands are quite small. It'll take a while for me to
be able to type with two thumbs, but I rarely do that anyway. One
trick that really does work is to just type and depend on the
predictive typing to actually work--most of the time it does quite
well, although I bet it wouldn't do as well with esoteric words
(like medical terms).
As for zooming with the map, I found tapping to work well, but it
was possible to tap to a zoom level for which there were no images--
which at first looked like the map application had hung up. Then I
tried used the finger-squeeze technique to zoom back out a little
and poof the satellite map came back.
M
On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Well, I finally went down to the Apple store to check it out. Of
course the
place was packed. They had about 30 iPhones there people could
play with.
Some observations:
- Most definitely 'perfectly sized' form factor. Beautiful finish.
- Software and interface extremely intuitive. All of it works well
(except Map*)
- When operating it, there really is a WOW factor. It really is
beautiful software. Reminds me of a futuristic demonstration
video prepared
by Hollywood.
- Very surprised at the data rate. I was able to see YouTube vids
quickly. The browser seemed a little slow, but not bad. Not
until later when
Chris reminded me I was on a WAN did I realize it. I imagine the
Edge
network would be slow. If it's like the Sidekick, it's too slow
to really
surf the net.
- Tried using the Map application, but it kept crashing. The two
finger 'zoom in' and 'zoom out', while cool, is very confusing
to the Map
application. Much better would be a zoom slider switch you could
drag with
one finger.
- Absolutely could not type on the keyboard. Very difficult.
Perhaps
my fingers are too large. Where's the stylus when you need one?
(Side note:
there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this
thing.) My guess
is they'll have to fix the keyboard input. AFAICT, it's just not
usable.
I know I'll wait for them to get the kinks out.
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