Comments on: Thoughts on the iPhone and Phone Usability http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 20:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: vic http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3889 vic Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:11:34 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3889 Seems like everyone here is practical-minded. Use your cell phone as a cell! I guess the short attention spans of people need all-in-one products to keep them busy. Plus Scott, aren't there way better phones out in Japan? I see the phones that act as key cards, and the like on tv. How can the iPhone compete aside from being really stylish? <a href="http://t1resource.blogspot.com/2007/03/previewing-iphone-revolution-who.html" rel="nofollow">Check out my blog for a preview of the iPhone features</a> Seems like everyone here is practical-minded. Use your cell phone as a cell! I guess the short attention spans of people need all-in-one products to keep them busy. Plus Scott, aren’t there way better phones out in Japan? I see the phones that act as key cards, and the like on tv. How can the iPhone compete aside from being really stylish?

Check out my blog for a preview of the iPhone features

]]> By: nils http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3091 nils Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:23:59 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3091 <i>I've never had a cell phone that didn't totally suck.</i> Amen to that. I keep upgrading and hoping, and what I want never comes. I want to read news articles and op/ed columns on my phone during my down time on the train, but when I email them to my phone from my Mac, even after converting to plaintext first, they come out 70% of the time as "(cannot display)" Today I was standing in front of your building with "(cannot display)" on the screen instead of your home phone and unit number. Stupid. I've been on SoftBank through its buyouts from J-Phone through Vodafone, so I'll be looking forward to the iPhone so I can just browse to the articles directly. I’ve never had a cell phone that didn’t totally suck.
Amen to that. I keep upgrading and hoping, and what I want never comes. I want to read news articles and op/ed columns on my phone during my down time on the train, but when I email them to my phone from my Mac, even after converting to plaintext first, they come out 70% of the time as “(cannot display)”

Today I was standing in front of your building with “(cannot display)” on the screen instead of your home phone and unit number. Stupid.

I’ve been on SoftBank through its buyouts from J-Phone through Vodafone, so I’ll be looking forward to the iPhone so I can just browse to the articles directly.

]]> By: Anonymous http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3030 Anonymous Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:28:58 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3030 I have to disagree here. Being a recent convert from Linux to Apple (can't stand windows and refuse to ever again have it on any of my home PCs -- especially with Vista coming out), I really am impressed with Apple's design. But wait a minute here. Can someone explain to me why I need anything better than my Motorola L2? I think some things are better left simple. I can't have a camera phone at work. Why do almost all phones have cameras? I bought a nice Nikon DSLR for that. Beats the pants off any cell phone camera. If I want to take pictures, I use a camera -- not a phone. Why is browsing the web supposed to be so great on a cell phone? Even the largest cell phone screens out there are no match for a computer. Are we, as a society, so impatient that we can't wait till we get home on our computers to see if there is something new on the latest blog we frequent? Finally, I don't see what's so hard about Motorola's interface. You type in a number, hit the green phone button (call). To end a call, you push the red phone button (end). Seems like proper phone operation to me. Perhaps I'm simply too behind times to appreciate a phone that plays music, surfs the web, keeps my addresses and appointments, etc. All I want is a phone where I can call people (Internal phone book a necessity here) and receive calls. I haven't had a phone in the last 5 years that can't accomplish this. And by the way, my caller ID pops up numbers as +1 123 1234 formatted pretty nicely. Technology is advancing and that's good. But we are getting "do it all" devices that do everything averagely and nothing well. Give me a phone that's just a phone and I'll gladly buy it -- Apple or not. Just my 2 cents. I have to disagree here. Being a recent convert from Linux to Apple (can’t stand windows and refuse to ever again have it on any of my home PCs — especially with Vista coming out), I really am impressed with Apple’s design. But wait a minute here. Can someone explain to me why I need anything better than my Motorola L2? I think some things are better left simple.

I can’t have a camera phone at work. Why do almost all phones have cameras? I bought a nice Nikon DSLR for that. Beats the pants off any cell phone camera. If I want to take pictures, I use a camera — not a phone.

Why is browsing the web supposed to be so great on a cell phone? Even the largest cell phone screens out there are no match for a computer. Are we, as a society, so impatient that we can’t wait till we get home on our computers to see if there is something new on the latest blog we frequent?

Finally, I don’t see what’s so hard about Motorola’s interface. You type in a number, hit the green phone button (call). To end a call, you push the red phone button (end). Seems like proper phone operation to me. Perhaps I’m simply too behind times to appreciate a phone that plays music, surfs the web, keeps my addresses and appointments, etc. All I want is a phone where I can call people (Internal phone book a necessity here) and receive calls. I haven’t had a phone in the last 5 years that can’t accomplish this. And by the way, my caller ID pops up numbers as +1 123 1234 formatted pretty nicely.

Technology is advancing and that’s good. But we are getting “do it all” devices that do everything averagely and nothing well. Give me a phone that’s just a phone and I’ll gladly buy it — Apple or not.

Just my 2 cents.

]]> By: Jeffrey Friedl http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3028 Jeffrey Friedl Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:45:56 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3028 I'm not really "upset" that it'll take so long to get here, just resigned to the fact. I know that before they can sell here, they have to deal with a totally different telephone technology, a totally different regulatory environment, and a slightly different language and the accompanying different character-input needs :-) It runs OSX and is from Apple... I would be <i>shocked</i> if it weren't multi-lingual from day one. One lucky thing is that by the time it does get here, it'll be in it's Xth generation, so the bugs will be worked out, capacity increased, the battery will be replaceable, etc. I’m not really “upset” that it’ll take so long to get here, just resigned to the fact. I know that before they can sell here, they have to deal with a totally different telephone technology, a totally different regulatory environment, and a slightly different language and the accompanying different character-input needs :-)

It runs OSX and is from Apple… I would be shocked if it weren’t multi-lingual from day one.

One lucky thing is that by the time it does get here, it’ll be in it’s Xth generation, so the bugs will be worked out, capacity increased, the battery will be replaceable, etc.

]]> By: Scott http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3026 Scott Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:39:33 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-01-11/329#comment-3026 I, like you, live in Japan and am a tad upset that the product will take so long to make an appearance here. One thing that I wonder if is the device will be truly bilingual or if it will be one of the many Japanese-only phones that the big-3 love to sell. A couple of the Windows Mobile devices are Japanese-only, so I am a little cautious about being excited about the prospect of the iPhone. As you said, only time will tell. I do wonder, it does make sense for Apple to use Softbank because they have a great network and are partnered up with Yahoo! Japan already. I would surmise that you are on the right track but I truly wonder what network Apple will choose. Anyhow, it ought to be interesting. Just sucks that we have to wait so long to see the damn thing! :-) I, like you, live in Japan and am a tad upset that the product will take so long to make an appearance here. One thing that I wonder if is the device will be truly bilingual or if it will be one of the many Japanese-only phones that the big-3 love to sell.

A couple of the Windows Mobile devices are Japanese-only, so I am a little cautious about being excited about the prospect of the iPhone. As you said, only time will tell.

I do wonder, it does make sense for Apple to use Softbank because they have a great network and are partnered up with Yahoo! Japan already. I would surmise that you are on the right track but I truly wonder what network Apple will choose.

Anyhow, it ought to be interesting. Just sucks that we have to wait so long to see the damn thing! :-)

]]>