take note:
- keyboard (obvi)
- scrolling keys (beside space bar) for up and down movements
- no command key for copy and pastehaha
hope you likee
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Guys... this hasn't actually been released! Chill!
The iPhone already has one.... that big round Programs button below the screen.
A real touch-only device would've had a main menu available from the status bar at all times.
However, Apple needed a hardware button to help the device recover from runaway code. Pretty clever, really. The iPhone isn't much more stable than other systems, it just crashes nicer and usually back to the same main menu.
It isnt for me
Really? How many full touchscreen phones were there before the iPhone? And how many are there now? Thought so
Please define "full touchscreen". If you mean one without buttons, the iPhone doesn't fit that description. Just as with other phones, it's got physical buttons for several common needs. It does have fewer convenience buttons than most phones.
If by "full touchscreen" you're trying to say that most of its functionality is done by touch, then you can do that on hundreds of previous phones, no matter how many buttons they also had. You can actually do more by touch on them. But you weren't forced to.
Heck, the iPhone totally relies on a physical button (home) to even be usable.
Perhaps what you meant was that it was the first widely available civilian production smartphone with a UI designed for finger navigation? I certainly agree with that, as that's what I said previously... it's the UI that was the important difference, not the touchscreen itself.
take note:
- keyboard (obvi)
- scrolling keys (beside space bar) for up and down movements
- no command key for copy and paste
hope you likee
Do you know the iPhone has a touch keypad onscreen already? I don't see the point of adding a crappy keypad to the iPhone when there is a perfectly working one in place.
I think the mock-up looks great - really professional. I think it would provide a great opportunity to those who would rather type with a physical keyboard instead of a virtual keyboard. However, I don't really think Apple will ever take this approach.
Great job though!
Great job though!
I really don't see a point to adding a keyboard. You didn't even change the design of the phone...
OH PLEASE!
IF apple wanted to make an iphone with keyboard you can be sure that they would make it real slim. This is apple, not htc! And if they would I know 90% of you guys who are against the keyboard would line up to get one! you know you would, you(we) guys are gadget junkies!
it would make it fat
sadly your design is not pratical, explain to me how you would press the 1 key without switching your phone on silent ?
By not having fat fingers?
No. Would be too thick. As far as a keyboard, Apple just needs us to allow the landscape keyboard for email/texting and i believe that would make typing much easier. Who needs that fat phone that looks like an LG or something.
KDarling answered this really well, but I just wanted to throw out a few phones (and other devices) with touchscreens:
-HTC Wizard
-HTC Tilt
-Palm Treos
-All Palm PDAs
-All Pocket PC Professional devices
And here's a link to one of the first "touchscreen" phones...from 2002: T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone review
They may not be finger friendly touchscreens, but touch screen technology and phones have been around for a very long time.
Thanks for the reminders! The screens themselves were fine with fingers... we were using them in enterprise situations with finger-friendly apps we wrote... but the OS was still geared towards showing as much info as possible, thus often needing a stylus for pointing accuracy.
Other early smartphones with touchscreens included and their intro year:
2000 = HP Jornada 545
... lol, okay this is cheating, but you could get a GSM card for it
2001 = Cyberbank ... never went on sale, but demos were amazing... 640x480 screen!
2002 = Jornada 928... okay this one and the following were sold to the public
2002 = MDA
A wonderful history of hundreds of devices is at this PDA list site. You can click at the left to see all VGA+ devices, for instance, or do a search by keyword or years.
As an aside, some prototype phones included: The Black Box true all touch phone and the spiritual daddy of most, which was actually demo'd at shows... Onyx concept phone
Finger-friendly touch was a natural evolution and would've hit sooner or later no matter what. However, while Apple was not the first touch phone by a long shot, it was the first to get a finger friendly UI out of R&D and into the mass public's hands.
