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iOS 11 Dock and Gesture Controls to Replace 'iPhone 8' Home Button Entirely
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It's unintelligent design. You'd think a team of designers at Apple would be intelligent enough to design with ergonomics in mind, but nope.
This is how it should be:
#1 Design to the ergonomics
#2 Design to optimal aesthetic given the set ergonomics from rule #1
Well, they don't on any iPhone I've used.
Also, from my understanding you will never need to be near the edge of the display to go home. You swipe up the bar at the bottom of the device according to Bloomberg report.
Clunky in what way? It literally isn't there unless you hard press and then it takes you home. Nothing is visible on screen, I can't imagine it being less clunky.
That will not be the case since in your case all screen is completely asigned to the app you are using. In the described case there is a slim "software" bar below; so when you star sliding from it, you guarantee a specific gesture is performed.
It won't be so hard when you don't have the buttonBut seriously, I share your pain.
Lately, though, the home button has become a bit of an annoyance anyway - my wife and I have gotten into the habit of occasionally using the phone when we can't sleep. Both of us are light sleepers and that darn button click (we still have an iPhone 6 with its completely physical home button) has a tendency to wake the other person up!
Which begs the question: how will face recognition work in the dark? Just put in your pin instead?
I'll miss the home button. I reach into my pocket and my phone is on before it's even in front of me. These feel like extra steps to the same end.
IR sensors will work in the dark. A bit like Nintendo’s New 3DS, but much better and more accurate.
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I can see why Apple is embracing the notch. It appears that app developers choose the color behind the status bar. Maybe some apps will fill it with black.
While on the home screen, the wallpaper goes behind the status bar. If you want the notch to disappear, you can use a wallpaper that has a black bar at the top.
Swipe from bottom all the way up should still be fine for the visually impaired. With the normal iPhone 7 with bezel, you don't know where the "bottom" of the screen really was without looking, but because the iPhone 8 has no bezel, the bottom of the phone IS the bottom of the screen.
While on the home screen, the wallpaper goes behind the status bar. If you want the notch to disappear, you can use a wallpaper that has a black bar at the top.
Swipe from bottom all the way up should still be fine for the visually impaired. With the normal iPhone 7 with bezel, you don't know where the "bottom" of the screen really was without looking, but because the iPhone 8 has no bezel, the bottom of the phone IS the bottom of the screen.
I know, right? They're going to give basic android features these really cool marketing buzz words.
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I like Pixel phones with a fingerprint reader on the back. Your finger falls intuitively on the sensor and the screen comes on. Drag your finger down from the sensor and your notification screen appears. Apple with figure out something similar and as easy.
what bothers you about the camera bulge? is it just an aesthetics thing? I'm seriously asking because not once has that bothered me, I rarely ever look at the back of my phone, its not that huge a bulge that it makes holding/carrying the phone any different. I guess laying it on a table but why would one care unless you are physically rocking your phone with your hands rather than it just laying there..... and on top of that most cases will even it out... I'm not trying to be a jerk just genuinely asking because I'm curious.
The embrace of the notch is fine. People losing their minds because Apple isn't going to black out parts of a screen to make it look uniform are being a tad ridiculous IMO.
Now the white notch looks horrendous, and makes the user focus on the bright white bezel of what is supposed to be an almost bezel-less phone
Now the white notch looks horrendous, and makes the user focus on the bright white bezel of what is supposed to be an almost bezel-less phone
Another gesture that probably isn't going to work with VoiceOver/Accessibility (some people forget/don't know that the home button has other functions besides getting to the home screen and Siri). Welcome to the world of the inaccessible iPhone.
You're suggesting a black AND white bezel? That would be better than all white, but I don't think Apple would go that route.
So much for "easy enough for mom to use". One swipe gesture will have essentially 3 functions now: Unlocking, app switching, control center. If they market this as iPhone Pro or Edition, thats fine.
At the $1000 price point I guess most moms wont be buying it anyway.
At the $1000 price point I guess most moms wont be buying it anyway.
We all know no one is going for the white one, the "cut out" looks like someone put 4 holes there. Imagine having the phone turned off? Ha scary! & ugly!
Im going for the black one, anyone knows if it will be like the jet black one? Ima have to buy a case then..
Im going for the black one, anyone knows if it will be like the jet black one? Ima have to buy a case then..
People gotta moan about something..
If the camera was thin enough to sit flush, it would be vastly inferior and people would moan. If they fleshed the rest of the phone out to the thickness of the camera and filled it with battery people would moan that the phone is too fat and heavy.
People just gotta moan, even if it's the tiniest detail that won't affect them, they'll moan anyway.
Ok. Fair enough. But what about when iOS is on, the phone is being used, and iOS is ALL white?
I much rather prefer a white on white surface when I am actually USING my phone than how it looks when the screen is off.
I much rather prefer a white on white surface when I am actually USING my phone than how it looks when the screen is off.
Its really too bad the build quality on them was s***. I had a pixi for four years and had to replace the back shell every few minths until i put a case on it.
I powered it up the other day and its UX is still preferable to ios.