If you read any article about steve jobs, you know how much he hates buttons. Therefore, I think that the next phone will be buttonless. Seriously, the new phone needs to do something that the previous could not, even if it is less expensive. I mean, why spend 300 to get a phone that does less than what the already limited 600 dollar phone does?
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The iPhone Nano Mock-up/Concept thread
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He doesn't really hate buttons, and surely not the clickwheel but he hates a stylus... you can loose a stylus but a button... you can't loose.
What are you talking about? Not only did you just answer your own question, but you act like this doesn't happen all the time.
The newer model has to do MORE than the previous? Since WHEN?
Ever hear of the MacBook?
Or..............the iPod Nano? the iPod shuffle?
These are products that came after their superiors to suit different needs in different demographics.
There is no linear progression in marketing the way you try to map it as such.
(A better question: Why WOULD a $300 model do more than the $600?)
Because it's less cheap and maybe some people don't need all thoose stuff okay...
*Lose
The iPhone is more or less a glimpse of the future. June 29th did not mark the end of products using the click wheel, nor did it mark the beginning of Multi-Touch take over. The iPhone is out there to show the level they are on, not as an example of the current precedent.
Apple has not yet even come close to exhausting the market for devices and computers with buttons and click wheels. There for, they will continue to make and sell, and tweek, and sell again, and tweek some more and sell some more, until they can't sell anyone another darn clickwheel....then you will see the full implementation of touch screen tech.
That's really bad quality...in wich format did you convert that?and it's for left handers...
it can be turned the other way around for right and left hand use.
I used the "save for web" option in Photoshop (it's a bit low, at 256 colors!
)I think the interface might look like that, but that could vary to an
tv or FrontRow 2 type menu screen...IF this rumour were to be true, there would be no way in hell I would get one. I think the click wheel would be great for phone dialing but I think it would be extremely inconvenient for text messaging. Just imagine texting somebody with a click wheel...scroll click; scroll click; scroll click; scroll click; scroll click; scroll click... a scroll and a click per letter! That would be aggravating in my opinion.
I disagree. I'm sure lots of 13-19 year olds, especially high school kids, would love a slick touchscreen phone like the iPhone.
I personally have showed my iPhone to quite a few teenagers who are juniors/seniors in high school, most who actually have Razors now, and they are all jealous. Of course, the thought of actually owning one doesn't even dawn upon them because of how expensive it is and having to use AT&T. And the most used feature when I'm showing it to them is flicking through pictures and albums which all utilize the touch screen.
I personally get the feeling they are most amazed by the multi-touch interface and tilting of the phone than the aesthetic interface designs that many of us enjoy.
This is all my opinion and speculation though. Mostly because I think it would be too hard to use a phone with a click wheel.
while I agree that that the touch screen definitely atracts youth to the device over cheaper phones, I dont think the current implementation would survive their usage and habits.
However I do have a better concept in mind that I'm currently developing a mockup for. It features a clickwheel but of a new breed. The circular pad is a soft touch screen with backlit function labels that change per the requirements of the current page. ie: on the home screen as in my previous posted mockup, the "menu" "play pause" "FF" and rewind buttons are lit up images I the "clickwheel". On the dialing page, it would display 1 - 0 in a circle, on the text screen a circular array of an ABC button, DEF, etc.. Using a T9 word qwerty hybrid.
I'll post it as soon as I finish
However I do have a better concept in mind that I'm currently developing a mockup for. It features a clickwheel but of a new breed. The circular pad is a soft touch screen with backlit function labels that change per the requirements of the current page. ie: on the home screen as in my previous posted mockup, the "menu" "play pause" "FF" and rewind buttons are lit up images I the "clickwheel". On the dialing page, it would display 1 - 0 in a circle, on the text screen a circular array of an ABC button, DEF, etc.. Using a T9 word qwerty hybrid.
I'll post it as soon as I finish
I didn't know what i should choose, but i still think that 1,2, and maybe 4 GB is good because it shouldn't be the same amount of storage as the normal iphone, and it has to stay cheap. But i actually don't really know..
But that's not the actual size the photo, the iphone nano mockup is as big as the nano now except the sides are a little bit slimmer...
I know, but big screens mean big devices. If its slimmer that screen will also make it longer...
I updated my former mockup (see post 36) with this new one:
it has a bigger screen and because the bigger screen it has another icon on it: clock. and the sides are now also slimmer for the more modern look. here it is:
I like where you're going, especially with the comic icons. But you have to make that screen smaller its way too out of balance with the body of the device. And get rid of NOTES, completely unnecessary.
Okay when i have time i will make the screen smaller and get rid of notes...
When is your mockup coming your promised
??...As promised my new mockup base on a clickwheel and small icons:
I really like the interface, and would buy it. for the rest it has a camera with 1.3 MP, 1 or 2 GB and has ipod feauture, and notes and so on...
Nice, very nice indeed, as I mentioned before i think that a possible
tv menu could play the part in the iPhone Nano... But this one is probably more realistic.GTiPhone,
heres the one with smaller screen, withour notes and with clock:
Yes, very very nice. Well done.
I'm making a few sreen shot mockups right now. Using this and my basic design, trying to give an idea to what further navigation will look like. Also trying to make my click wheel concept look right.
An OLED Click Wheel on this device would be very useful for typing, dialing, texting, listening to music...
.......and here is further Navigation to the Keypad tab.
The LED backlit touch pad is in use here. The normal menu/ipod controls are faded out the appropriate keys needed for the keypad page are imposed. (the transparent circle over the "2" just represents the area being touched as the last 2 is added).
The LED backlit touch pad is in use here. The normal menu/ipod controls are faded out the appropriate keys needed for the keypad page are imposed. (the transparent circle over the "2" just represents the area being touched as the last 2 is added).
