<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I'm Sorry Thomas, I'd have to disagree with you. Adding a drop down menu to perform a call would be cumbersome at best.<br><br>I believe the dialer app should be a finger-app as well as the contacts app. A two page approach (ala iPhone) would be a better implementation of the contacts app which will give us more screen real estate for our large fingers.<br><br>as much as I hate to say, Apple do better homework than others when it comes to display layout. <br><br>OpenMoko's implementations could be similar but differs in one respect:<br>a double tap would initiate a call to default number (or the only number present), which to my knowledge isn't present on the iPhone.<br>The single tap would remain to switch the view to second page (which displays all of contact's details).<br><br>what do you guys
think?<br><br><br><br>>On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:46:06 -0300<br>>Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org> wrote:<br>><br>>> Thomas Wood wrote:<br>>> > making calls at all. We could add an icon or button next to each<br>>> > "telephone" entry in the details pane to launch the dialer.<br>>> > <br>>> > Does anyone have any thoughts about where or how to implement a<br>>> > "finger" version of this feature?<br>>> <br>>> As a start, maybe make the whole number a button ?<br>>> <br>>> One tap could highlight the number and bring up buttons<br>>> (large and somewhere where they don't conflict with<br>>> anything else), for choosing what to do with it, i.e.,<br>>> make a call or send an SMS.<br>><br>><br>>Sounds good, although obviously it would be a feature only present in<br>>"view" mode (as opposed to "edit"). A drop down menu with "Call" and<br>>"Send
Message" would probably be sufficient.<br>><br>>Regards,<br>><br>>Thomas</div><br>
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