Comments on: I don’t love my iPhone http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2009/10/11/i-don%e2%80%99t-love-my-iphone/ News and ideas on user experience. Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:36:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2009/10/11/i-don%e2%80%99t-love-my-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-859 David Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:43:04 +0000 http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/?p=520#comment-859 my summery of the iphone is it's very good and being everything other than a phone. i can't text with it to save my life and write absolute rubbish - even in landscape i hit the wrong keys - it's such an inefficient way of texting. I've given up texting and walking after a number of embarrassing collisoins with inanimate objects...why has apple decided we can't have bigger keys and a numerical keypad for texting. You can't text on the tube and the the phone automatically send when you regain reception. The phone itself is not the best. no reception in parts of my flat which i've never had a problem with before / randomly no reception in parts of london/ drops calls all the time ... I do like the maps - although a pocket A-Z is no bigger....... my summery of the iphone is it's very good and being everything other than a phone. i can't text with it to save my life and write absolute rubbish - even in landscape i hit the wrong keys - it's such an inefficient way of texting. I've given up texting and walking after a number of embarrassing collisoins with inanimate objects...why has apple decided we can't have bigger keys and a numerical keypad for texting. You can't text on the tube and the the phone automatically send when you regain reception. The phone itself is not the best. no reception in parts of my flat which i've never had a problem with before / randomly no reception in parts of london/ drops calls all the time ...
I do like the maps - although a pocket A-Z is no bigger.......

]]> By: Ian http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2009/10/11/i-don%e2%80%99t-love-my-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-787 Ian Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:24:52 +0000 http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/?p=520#comment-787 These are good reasons that my next phone will be a Sony Ericsson to replace my SE T610. I've had Nokia, Samsung and Motorola before that, and I had to use a qwerty Nokia E71 at a recent workplace, and I love my MacBook Pro, but for a phone, I just want a phone that does everything that a phone should do, really well, and with a keypad designed for a phone, not a miniature of a keyboard designed for touch typing! For other things I'll use my Mac! :) These are good reasons that my next phone will be a Sony Ericsson to replace my SE T610. I've had Nokia, Samsung and Motorola before that, and I had to use a qwerty Nokia E71 at a recent workplace, and I love my MacBook Pro, but for a phone, I just want a phone that does everything that a phone should do, really well, and with a keypad designed for a phone, not a miniature of a keyboard designed for touch typing! For other things I'll use my Mac! :)

]]> By: melinda http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2009/10/11/i-don%e2%80%99t-love-my-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-717 melinda Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:57:44 +0000 http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/?p=520#comment-717 Try holding your phone in one hand and using your index finger to text. A friend told me that tip and it really made a big difference to me. Touch screens are not meant to be thumb-texted, they're meant to be pointer-finger texted. I thought it would slow me down, but it helped with the landscape issue, the accuracy issue, and the thumb strain issue. Try holding your phone in one hand and using your index finger to text. A friend told me that tip and it really made a big difference to me. Touch screens are not meant to be thumb-texted, they're meant to be pointer-finger texted.

I thought it would slow me down, but it helped with the landscape issue, the accuracy issue, and the thumb strain issue.

]]> By: bowmast http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2009/10/11/i-don%e2%80%99t-love-my-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-697 bowmast Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:17:55 +0000 http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/?p=520#comment-697 Great post Jude. One of the most widespread behavioural changes that mobile phones have brought in is that many young people have stopped wearing wristwatches. ...Primarily because almost every mobile has the time displayed permanently. So there's another design aspect which is hard to believe was overlooked: I have to press a button every time I want to know the time. ... so now I'm back to wearing a watch, as it's one step too far for me. That's progress I guess. Great post Jude.
One of the most widespread behavioural changes that mobile phones have brought in is that many young people have stopped wearing wristwatches.

...Primarily because almost every mobile has the time displayed permanently.

So there's another design aspect which is hard to believe was overlooked:

I have to press a button every time I want to know the time. ... so now I'm back to wearing a watch, as it's one step too far for me.

That's progress I guess.

]]> By: James http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2009/10/11/i-don%e2%80%99t-love-my-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-695 James Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:17:40 +0000 http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/?p=520#comment-695 Since you're moderating: please change the final link to: http://notinventedhere.posterous.com/were-apple-right-not-to-offer-t9-on-the-iphon Cheers :) Since you're moderating: please change the final link to:

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