Sunday, January 25, 2009

Usability over Function???

With the release of the iPhone, I hope phone manufactures will realize there is a need for better user interfaces and they can not rest only of the features to get the masses to buy. I own a Starcom PPC6700 a Windows Mobile Phone. It has the same main features as the iPhone: Camera, photos, audio files, video, internet, voice mail, and IM. What does the phone lack? What did Microsoft miss when they wrote the OS? Usability, it is easier and more intuitive in accessing the feature rich iPhone. Press you finger and you are accessing you camera, press again you take a picture, double press and you are zooming in. Slide your finger, you are browsing through your photos. Press again and you have closed your picture viewer and now you can access your music with the press of a finger. No stylus, no ambiguous buttons to use. Granted the iPhone is way expensive and only for AT&T. But that being said, people are paying the price to end their contracts early to switch to AT&T and use the iPhone. I am glad the iPhone was released and hope it sparks a revolution in the usefulness of the "many featured phone" in the future and cause prices to come down.

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