Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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ragnar is offline ragnar
2009-01-12 , 22:26
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Can we agree that Ragnar highly regards the iPhone? I would further guess that his respect is both inside and out. And I will go one step further that he would have Nokia duplicate it if he/they could. Big ifs, I know. But that's how his posts read to me. Anyway, if all that were true and forgetting a stow-away keyboard for a second, my 12 buttons would go to 4 (home, power and +/- volume on the iPhone). So to call 12-down-to-4 "some UI tweaks in their software" would be misleading and false. As would calling my skepticism doom-and-gloom. Again, only if I'm guessing correctly. Nokia should just say something new here.
I think the iPhone has a really good touch optimized UI for a mobile device, yes. From what I've seen from the Palm Pre, it's also very high up my list. No, given the power I wouldn't want to emulate or duplicate iPhone - there is no point in duplicating something that already exists - but rather learn from the positive aspects and take steps that go forward from it.

If I would have the power - and I don't really, only to a small extent - yes, I would try to make touch UI's agnostic of device hard keys, since that enables designing and creating better touch UI experiences. It is not to say that hard keys are bad. Nothing is bad or good as such, it's only how and why something is applied. Hard keys are better than touch keys in certain purposes: for fixed functions, things like text input etc.

Then again, in some previous post there was something like "there are different use cases: keys only, stylus only, mixed use". I don't think that is valid. Those are not use cases, that's looking from the opposite direction. The controls are not use cases: the functions do you with the device are the use cases, and then you can have suitable control schemes for performing these functions.
 

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