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Apple has never had a dedicated Siri button. Also, it's a phone dialer - like the functionality of a phone dialer has been well defined since the early 2000's
by Aloha 6y ago
Apple has never had a dedicated Siri button.
Also, it's a phone dialer - like the functionality of a phone dialer has been well defined since the early 2000's (also having used PalmOS, webOS, Windows Mobile 6 and 7, Early Android, and iOS from 2012 on I've never desired additional functionality here), so like what makes a phone dialer "like 10 years ahead"? - I'm not trying to snark, it's a genuine question.
- batiudrami 6y agoFor a long time stock android didn't have T9 contact searching from the dialer (and, astonishingly, iOS still doesn't), something present since the Galaxy S1.
- LeoPanthera 6y agoWhy would you need T9 on a touch screen? You can just display a full keyboard. That was the defining aspect of the keynote that launched the first iPhone, even. There's nothing "astonishing" about it.
- sanxiyn 6y agoFor many people T9 is faster than QWERTY keyboard.
- batiudrami 6y agoBecause the T9 keyboard is already displayed, and the full keyboard isn't. It is a very fast way to search through your contacts directly from the dialier when I want to call someone, which is the primary use case of the dialer (calling someone already in my contacts).
- kiwijamo 6y agoThis is the first time I've heard of T9 being used since we moved on from the old Nokia phones that pioneered T9! Bring back fond memories of my Nokia 3310 and 8210. But yeah it's odd to see T9 in the context of a touchscreen phone...
- porsager 6y agoI think it's a pity it's gone. I've developed https://typenineapp.com https://typenineapp.com for iPhone, since I couldn't get used to the small buttons on the qwerty keyboard. I would dare to say I type almost twice as fast as regular qwerty phone users, and even without the tactile feedback I can do so without looking. I've had about 60.000 downloads, and I almost never see a bad review, so I'd say T9 on a touchscreen has a place.
- perryizgr8 6y agoI love the T9 dialing on my galaxy phone. It's amazing. It saves so much time searching for contacts. Blows my mind that iphone doesn't have it.
- perryizgr8 6y ago> Apple has never had a dedicated Siri button. Sure it does. Right side button, hold it and it triggers siri. Single click locks unlocks the phone. This is identical to how the unlock/Bixby button works on Samsung.
- iainmerrick 6y agoThat’s optional, and opt-in -- it asks you during phone setup whether to enable Siri. It does try to nudge you into enabling it, but if someone kept pressing that button and invoking Siri accidentally, they could open Settings and search for “siri” to disable it, which I think is reasonably discoverable.
- perryizgr8 6y agoBixby is also optional. You can disable the key trigger from the settings, exactly like iphone.
- totalZero 6y agoDepends what phone. S8 for example had a Bixby button that could not be disabled.
- morsch 6y agoOn my S10, there is a seperate Bixby button on the left side, so it's not shared with the unlock button. The best thing about the Bixby button is that I can freely remap it with third party applications, meaning I have a dedicated, customizable, physical button, something all phones should have.