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#32
Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
I do think that, before the NIT tries to be a true consumer generalized device, it's going to need to be as finger friendly as the iPhone. I think that's something that the iPhone got right. I don't think that means getting rid of the stylus completely (I don't like the finger based drawing things you can do on an iPhone -- I think that Jobs is wrong: for some things, you do want/need a higher precision pointer than your fat fingers), but when you look at "the interface as a whole", as opposed to "specialized applications", the entire interface needs to be comfortably usable with your fingers. It should only be the most precision point/drawing oriented applications that require a stylus.
I wonder how easy browsing on internettablettalk would be on the iPhone? Would you have to zoom way in to click the pages numbers and then zoom out to see the text?