Novelty-factor? Have you ever used an iPhone for a longer period? I know several<br>people who own one now , and they would _NEVER_ turn back to anything like a<br>stylus controlled device, again. I really would _LOVE_ an iPhone, if it came with<br>
Free Software...<br><br>But the "novelty factor"-argument has been used before... Like when the cell-phone<br>started to be more generally available.. "It's just a novelty for the guys at Wall Street."..<br>
Yeah right... How many of you have cut of the land-line and gone 100% mobile? I have,<br>and there's no looking back. Sure, there was benefits like a lower price per minute, but<br>that's all gone now, almost.. It's certainly not worth the difference any more, and the cell<br>
has so many more pro's than the landline... <br><br>It's the same with the resistive vs capacitive approach, as I see it. There is only one<br>pro with the resistive one, and that's an extremely low pro.. Especially if there is indeed<br>
a stylus, albeit with a rather big tip. For the argument that you can use a smaller display<br>if you use a stylus, yeah that's true.. But the OpenMoko looks very poor with such a small<br>display and a HUGE area of NOTHING around it, which could have been used for display<br>
purposes instead.<br><br> Best regards<br> Anton Persson<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Tilman Baumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tilman@baumann.name">tilman@baumann.name</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Anton Persson wrote:<br>
> Less capable in which way? We just saw that you CAN use a stylus with<br>
> a capacitive screen, if you really need that. What other arguments are there<br>
> for a resistive screen?<br>
<br>
</div>This stylus is not much smaller than a finger tip.<br>
<br>
I will not say that capacitive is bad, but it is certainly a much bigger<br>
challenge for gui development. I'm not sure we are ready for this...<br>
<br>
And I'm not convinced that a iphone like system is the right platform<br>
for a really versatile smartphone.<br>
I'm convinced that people will start to see the iphone UI as a<br>
limitation when the novelty factor waers off.<br>
We should take the best from the iphone (good productive finger<br>
controlled apps) but we should not totally commit to this.<br>
And I'm not sure that multi touch is really so important and the low res<br>
touch sensitivity of the iphone started to anoy me really fast.<br>
Text input on a iphone is better than T9, but not really good.<br>
<br>
We need a bigger screen that's for sure.<br>
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