Amidst all the product anticipation that always seems to attend the release of Apple hardware no one seems to have commented on what seems a real problem with the phone, its orientation, and the need to keep swivelling it round in one’s hand as one shifts from function to function, from widescreen to portrait and back again. You switch the phone on in portrait mode with the phone resting upright in your hand, want to scan through your album artwork you must rotate the handset 45 degrees to see the screen in widescreen, want to look through a list of music though and its back to portrait, want to watch a video and its another hand turn back to wide, want to answer a call it’s a twist back to portrait and so on. Indeed one can imagine that if the iPhone is a success we will soon see some variation on RSI developing as legions of iPhone users begin to experience strange wrist aches from repeatedly twisting the phone in their hands. Lets call it iPhone ache or iPA for short.
I'm of the opinion that it could go either way, really.
I buy phones. A LOT of phones...often before anyone here in the good ol' usa *may* even see them. Been thru every major, and a few minor phone OS versions and incarnations.
And you know, as nice as some of the hardware has been, the softare driving the things needs...rethinking. Looks like Apple's had a crack at it.
Now, will it take over the world...cure cancer...end war and provide free energy to all of humanity?
Nah. It probably wouldn't get ya' laid either.
But I know what it WILL do; it will inspire other phone makers to really *think about* how their phones work...how those features are accessed...they won't be willing to leave this to the carrier, because that limitation will keep them from raising the bar.
Will the iPhone become King of the Communicators? Probably not. But you know what WILL happen? Phones will start to work a lot more like them than they do now.
YES! I completely agree! I have the same problem with the key to my house! I have to pull it out of my pocket and turn it to fit into the keyhole. I have been trying for years to get someone to develop a door that I can shove my keys towards and it will fit in any direction. And I expect it to be 100% accurate and foolproof.
Yes, psouper, having to physically rotate the iphone in order to access all those great features will be the death of us all. If you think is stupid and unfair and an unreasonable burden, you should try this thing called "cooking". You take a knife and slice it through an onion, but you're not done there, oh no! You have to KEEP DOING IT OVER AND OVER, until the onion is in little pieces. Then come peppers, tomatoes, garlic, oh my! That's why cooking, like the iphone, has never and will never catch on.
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Amidst all the product anticipation that always seems to attend the release of Apple hardware no one seems to have commented on what seems a real problem with the phone, its orientation, and the need to keep swivelling it round in one’s hand as one shifts from function to function, from widescreen to portrait and back again. You switch the phone on in portrait mode with the phone resting upright in your hand, want to scan through your album artwork you must rotate the handset 45 degrees to see the screen in widescreen, want to look through a list of music though and its back to portrait, want to watch a video and its another hand turn back to wide, want to answer a call it’s a twist back to portrait and so on. Indeed one can imagine that if the iPhone is a success we will soon see some variation on RSI developing as legions of iPhone users begin to experience strange wrist aches from repeatedly twisting the phone in their hands. Lets call it iPhone ache or iPA for short.
I'm of the opinion that it could go either way, really.
I buy phones. A LOT of phones...often before anyone here in the good ol' usa *may* even see them. Been thru every major, and a few minor phone OS versions and incarnations.
And you know, as nice as some of the hardware has been, the softare driving the things needs...rethinking. Looks like Apple's had a crack at it.
Now, will it take over the world...cure cancer...end war and provide free energy to all of humanity?
Nah. It probably wouldn't get ya' laid either.
But I know what it WILL do; it will inspire other phone makers to really *think about* how their phones work...how those features are accessed...they won't be willing to leave this to the carrier, because that limitation will keep them from raising the bar.
Will the iPhone become King of the Communicators? Probably not. But you know what WILL happen? Phones will start to work a lot more like them than they do now.
Do you only have one hand?
YES! I completely agree!
I have the same problem with the key to my house! I have to pull it out of my pocket and turn it to fit into the keyhole. I have been trying for years to get someone to develop a door that I can shove my keys towards and it will fit in any direction. And I expect it to be 100% accurate and foolproof.
Yes, psouper, having to physically rotate the iphone in order to access all those great features will be the death of us all. If you think is stupid and unfair and an unreasonable burden, you should try this thing called "cooking". You take a knife and slice it through an onion, but you're not done there, oh no! You have to KEEP DOING IT OVER AND OVER, until the onion is in little pieces. Then come peppers, tomatoes, garlic, oh my! That's why cooking, like the iphone, has never and will never catch on.