Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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2009-01-11 , 12:21
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#171
Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
This d-pad thing is quite interesting to me. Probably the best touch mobile UI's right now in the market (or at least launched), the iPhone and the Palm Pre, neither has a d-pad in the device. ...
Best as in "usable" or "pretty"?

Why would you really need the d-pad?
Text editing, command line, item list scrolling/selection, moving focus across frames in modest, rss reader etc. If you are planning to remove the d-pad at least put arrow keys on the virtual and hardware keyboards.
 

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