I tend to be of the mentality that the phone is for my convenience, not others. Therefore, I like the ideas being suggested that incoming calls/text messages/emails/etc are indicated by a simple, polite icon on a status bar somewhere flashing for my attention.
<br><br>If the application I'm running is screen or input-centric, the icon works great, because I'm looking at the screen. Also, in these applications, the current ringer setting would also apply as a way to alert me to the call.
<br><br>If the application is sound-based, like playing an audio file, I would think the a nice pleasant and quick tone, like caller-ID uses, would suffice to alert me. If I take no action, perhaps I don't have the head phones on right now, and the phone should use the ringer/vibrator after a couple rings.
<br><br>I really think in most circumstances, the ringer/vibrator on the phone is enough to get one's attention, and all that is needed is a consistent place to click to accept or reject the call.<br><br>(hmm, the Neo does have vibrate, right?)
<br><br>--Steve<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael 'Mickey' Lauer</b> <<a href="mailto:mickey@openmoko.org">mickey@openmoko.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Heya,<br><br>> I think many users could live with popups,<br>> but I would like to choose a solution that<br>> would not nag me with full or havesize popups<br><br>Do you have a viable alternative (except full undo/redo capabilities,
<br>which would be desirable, but takes a whole lot of memory and/or<br>disk)?<br><br>>> Let's distinguish two types of popup-dialogs:<br>>><br>>> a) informative (i.e. battery low, incoming sms, sms sent)
<br>>> b) confirmative ("Mickey calling. Answer / Ignore / Reject?", "Do you<br>>> want to remove all contacts?")<br><br>> b) I hope incomming call will not interupt me to do what I'm doing
<br>> now<br><br>D'oh. That surprises me a bit... after all, the Neo is a phone, so I<br>would think incoming phone calls should always popup [in default<br>profile]. What do the others think?<br><br>>> Right now, we're leaning towards (ab)using the bottom status bar (in
<br>>> openmoko-language called 'footer') for informative dialogs and using<br>>> half screen (480x320) popup dialogs for confirmative.<br><br>> - I guess a third 480x210 is to small?<br><br>Probably, yes.
<br><br>> - could it be transparent?<br><br>Not on v1 hardware. There is no way the composite render extension<br>will work with an acceptable speed on a s3c2410.<br><br>> - will it passiv so that I can go on typing my email/chat
<br>> and my external keyboard return will not activate the<br>> default of the pop up?<br><br>I don't think we want "Do you really want to delete all contacts" to<br>be a non-disturbing passive dialog.
<br><br>>> What do you think?<br><br>> I think for several application I would like to have<br>> *no* popup just a screen inverting flashing like with GNU<br>> screen and maybe a 1-3 pixel red or inverted frame around
<br>> the whole screen - mabey with fast inverting flashing<br>> mayby with vibra or sound alarm... but a chance to<br>> to continous with the full screen.<br><br>Let's talk more concrete. Can we come up with some examples which are
<br>asynchronous notifications requiring a confirmation (otherwise they'd<br>just appear and disappear on the statusbar)? Do you really want e.g.<br>the "incoming phone" confirmation dialog behave like that?
<br><br>[more notification strategies]<br><br>> When I work with my laptop and the phone rings,<br>> I can finshed what I'm doing and pickup the phone<br>> then - the same freedom would I like when computing<br>
> and phone will be together in a smartphone.<br><br>> Could you understand my point?<br><br>I understand your point, I just think that this kind of thinking is<br>not what the majority of smartphone users wants.... or is it? Guys?
<br><br>> So in oposite to comercial products we have to chance<br>> offer 2-4 different design solutions how to work with<br>> the device.<br><br>Absolutely -- that's freedom. Giving hard- and software to actually
<br>try new paradigmes in the real world might exactly be the revolution we're after :)<br><br>--<br>- Michael Lauer <<a href="mailto:mickey@openmoko.org">mickey@openmoko.org</a>> <a href="http://openmoko.org/">
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