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I totally agree. The iPhone was cool, but not really as useful as a Blackberry at the time. It took two-hands to use the iphone (kinda still does unless you u
by dhimes 5y ago
I totally agree. The iPhone was cool, but not really as useful as a Blackberry at the time. It took two-hands to use the iphone (kinda still does unless you use voice, which is noisy). The Blackberry thumb-wheel was ridiculously effective at getting around on the phone.
In fact, iPhones weren't even used by many large businesses until later.
The cool factor won, though. When it came out it reminded me of the first LED watches; it you had to push a button on the watch (so now it took two hands to tell time). The red LEDS glowed for a few seconds then vanished. I first saw one in a James Bond movie.
- cout 5y agoAndroid phones toyed with the navigation ball for a little while, but it took a lot of rolls of the thumb to get a small movement on the screen -- it should have felt like a trackball, but ended up being useless compared to flicking the touch screen. The last Android phone I owned that had one was the HTC Magic. I'm hoping physical controls will make a comeback, but they're often incompatible with water resistance. Maybe some day a touchscreen will emerge with good haptic feedback? I can dream.