It looks potentially very cool. I wonder though how much of the interface is customizable. The interface definitely still needs work. Especially at the beginning of the video, it wasn't clear why the keys had to be used instead of touching the screen.
One of the biggest gripes I can see so far is the reliance on menu. It's one thing that the iPhone manages to get around for the most part (and simply doesn't provide that functionality when it can't...)
The really big win the iPhone still has is that multi-touch is a really big gain. It allows Apple to treat the iPhone as a single surface you can interact with directly. You can used to just flipping through things, sliding things, zooming in, etc. without having to take your eyes away from the screen, or figure out what button to press.
It's certainly to say iPhone is not perfect. Still can't copy and paste with it. But Cocoa is a really great stack to work with. I'm very curious as to how Andriod compares. Is there an emulator for development use? Also, how hard will it be to develop common apps against different HW?
"it wasn't clear why the keys had to be used instead of touching the screen."
I believe that's to let you see the screen and not his fingers. The touchscreen functionality is really trivial these days. Don't be so fast with conclusions like "the reliance on menu".
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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It looks potentially very cool. I wonder though how much of the interface is customizable. The interface definitely still needs work. Especially at the beginning of the video, it wasn't clear why the keys had to be used instead of touching the screen.
One of the biggest gripes I can see so far is the reliance on menu. It's one thing that the iPhone manages to get around for the most part (and simply doesn't provide that functionality when it can't...)
The really big win the iPhone still has is that multi-touch is a really big gain. It allows Apple to treat the iPhone as a single surface you can interact with directly. You can used to just flipping through things, sliding things, zooming in, etc. without having to take your eyes away from the screen, or figure out what button to press.
It's certainly to say iPhone is not perfect. Still can't copy and paste with it. But Cocoa is a really great stack to work with. I'm very curious as to how Andriod compares. Is there an emulator for development use? Also, how hard will it be to develop common apps against different HW?
Yup, theres an emulator included with the SDK. in the tools folder.
Played around with it for a bit, was pretty awesome
"it wasn't clear why the keys had to be used instead of touching the screen."
I believe that's to let you see the screen and not his fingers. The touchscreen functionality is really trivial these days. Don't be so fast with conclusions like "the reliance on menu".