Is sarcasim that hard to see on the web?
No living human would consider Sizzler a hi-class anything.... Hi volume on the other hand. And dead humans tend not to post much on macrumors.
I only saw multi-touch in action with Jobs - I have yet to see it working in the latest round of adverts. I'm skeptical over the touch-screen bit for one reason - lack of tactile feedback. A touchscreen keyboard would never be as accurate as one with buttons, just due to the feedback issue. You can't feel where keys are - so that mandates your continuous attention to the screen for any input at all. Even simplel "send" commands. That could become tedious. My Treo has a limited touch screen - yet I use the "hard buttons" 99% of the time, especially when on the go.
Agreed, on all counts.
Sizzler... Ponderosa... surely that was tongue firmly planted in cheek.
I too have a Treo and use the hard keys 99% of the time.
When Steve announced the iPhone, I began using the touch screen more - just to get used to that as a concept. And while Apple's implementatin of touch screen does seem better than Palm's, I have my concerns.
The tactile issue is huge. If you were ever in a situation where you had to text while NOT looking at the screen, without physical buttons, the odds of illegible messages increase dramatically.
And something I have yet to see, is the ability to type in landscape mode. All typing demos (I've seen) have all been in portrait mode. Seems to me, that a landscape typing option would allow for a larger key pad and thus, more accurate, typing experience (more double-thumb action as opposed to the single finger-action we have seen in every typing demo to date - again, concerned).
I agree with many that any time we have seen the iPhone in operation, it is the same, very controlled movements/actions. When this thing is in the public's hands, that's when we'll get a real understanding of exactly what is/is not possible (I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be much more versatile than what we have seen, thus far). And to the above poster who questioned Address Book, Mail, iCal syncing: that is the exact reason this device exists. If it does ANYTHING, it will sync perfectly with your Mac.
Otherwise, what's the point? Calamari?
