concept phone with only a touchscreen for UI

[Jon Phillips]

On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 12:53 -0700, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote:
> It's interesting.. here in the states, people really love the tactile  
> feedback you get with a "real" keyboard. But I've heard several  
> people say that touch screens are quite popular in Asia. If so, that  
> might explain why BenQ (and not Motorola) did this design and maybe  
> Apple is thinking about the iPhone for the Asian market instead of  
> the US market. Also... myPhone development has been greatly  
> simplified by having a touchscreen as the primary input. We can try  
> out all sorts of control layouts without having to print new keypads.
> 
> -Cheers
> -Matt H.

Yes, it seems pretty clear that screens are the way forward rather than
moving parts. I've seen a few solutions to the tactile feedback issue,
with the main being have the phone vibrate slightly upon key press,
along with sounds.

Matthew (and others), have you heard of others?

Jon

> On Jun 2, 2007, at 10:47 AM, michael at michaelshiloh.com wrote:
> 
> >> From our friends at SVHMPC,
> >
> >
> > A concept phone that is one big touchscreen, not unlike Neo1973.  
> > Interesting
> > point: "One issue keeping touchscreen concepts like this from  
> > becoming a
> > reality is the tactile-feedback issue" so I think we are right on  
> > the mark
> > with the discussions of and proposed solutions to this issue.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:22:21 -0700
> > From: Chris Palmer <chris at zencow.com>
> > To: SVHMPC <SVHMPC at telefono.revejo.org>
> > Subject: [SVHMPC] Black Box phone
> >
> > Has this been linked to the list yet?
> >
> > http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/10/03/black_box_phone.html
> >
> > I think I still want some kind of tactile keyboard option (credit-card
> > sized bluetooth keyboard may be good enough), but this is still pretty
> > interesting.  :)
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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