Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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2009-01-11 , 18:43
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Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
For 1) no, other means can be done. iPhone does it one way (with their zoom loupe), but other means can be used, either on-sceren or off-screen, depending on if there are hardware keys or not.

2) Well, touch screens work well with games suitable for touch screens. Just like you wouldn't enjoy Civilization with only HW keys (well, some do!), you wouldn't probably enjoy Quake with only the touch screen.
Nah, you're pnot taking into account a number of usages you're so accustomed with that you'll know they're missing when they're actually gone. I meant d-pad for navigating INSIDE the input field. I don't want to delete 5 letters to type 6, right? How will the iPhone zoom loupe help me with that?

And you probably mean that we should only play strategies from now on on the next devices. Quake is not suitable for touch screen, refer to Tomb Raider for WM5 devices and they actually using some keys too .

Does someone remember the user interface form Steven Spielberg's Special Report? I can tell you why it won't be used much in this form - it will give you an instant arthritis if you try to actually use it for something else than moving pictures around...
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