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There's more than one perfect smartphone form factor
...Surely this article questions Apple's wisdom in sticking to one form-factor for their iPhones? Maybe Sony Ericsson inadvertantly killed UIQ for the same reason (apart from being a year late to market for each of their high-end smartphones, they're even at it again with the Satio), only until they introduced the M600/W950/P1i/G900 did they try some variations on the P-series, by then, too little, too late. Having abandoned a 5800XM for an E71, I am hamstrung by apps which demand to be used in portrait orientation. Nokia seem to be prone to making too many variations, I think it's deterring Symbian developers.
I really wish the communicator style clam shell form factor would get some attention in the smart phone world. After using an E90, sliding smartphones just suck. All of them suck, especially the E75 style sliders which have screens that are FAR too small for landscape orientation. Touch sliders like the N97 or the new Motorola Android are serviceable, but their keyboards cannot match the E90's 5 rows. No slider can.
Why is it that there are plenty of well executed (if uninteresting) clam shell dumb phones like the LG Envys, but all new smart phones must be sliders. Wont somebody, anybody please make a dual screen clam shell smartphone?
-raleigh- wrote:If someone browses web and makes photos and in particular videos on e51, then definitely it has to be a true geek with excellent eyesight. Or a masochist, but I suppose it does not apply to Steve's wife.
Heh. To be fair, she doesn't do any of this very *often*. Maybe one web site and a couple of photos or videos per week 8-)
OTOH, you and I look at our phones 50 times a day and yes, the E51's 2" screen would drive me insane! 8-)
I would probably still be using my much beloved 7650 if only Nokia had given it bluetooh audio ;-(
Since then I've had several Win Mo's, S60's and a Blacberry - currently using a 5800xm - and nothing is a better form factor for me!!
I totally agree with the article and disagree with those who say the examples are people using their phones as dumbphones. The Eseries allows me to install some apps that make the use of the phone better for me. I don't want my phone to become a portable computer, like Steve Jobs thinks it must be. I love my phone being a really good phone first, then adding a few apps for convenience, such as a calls manager, a contacts manager, a call recorder, a better browser, maybe another e-mail client, etc. which dumbphones can't provide. As a matter of fact, my wife's iPhone still can't mute the ringer on incoming calls or count the characters of her SMSs or deleting single messages, among other things which makes it a rather poor phone (sure, it's a great little computer and an even better toy).
I have the same problem with the E51 as the writer's wife: it's so solid I'm having a hard time justifying an upgrade to the E52. (Yeah, I miss my old E60's fabulous screen but it's still not good enough a reason to shell out another 300 �). I for one wish Nokia put that interesting optical navikey on a next version of the E52, and if they move the charging socket back to the bottom, "where it belongs", I'll be a happy man.
In other words: I hope Nokia saves us from the touchscreen-only wave and keeps making its wonderful business phones. Whether they put Symbian or Maemo inside them, I don't care.
-raleigh- wrote:If someone browses web and makes photos and in particular videos on e51, then definitely it has to be a true geek with excellent eyesight. Or a masochist, but I suppose it does not apply to Steve's wife.
I don't make photos or video with my E51, but I certainly browse the web with it. I'm 48 and my sight is not very good, but here's some news: I can change the font size and do most of my newspaper reading (couple of hours a day) on my E51. I tried that on my wife's iPhone but it can't change the font size and the one chosen by Apple is too small for reading (unless, of course, you are willing to pinch in and out all the time, which is just too tiring). I honestly wonder how Steve Jobs reads that little font size. He's older than me...
Also, if you are spending a couple of hours reading the papers on a phone, you don't want to have both hands on that small device. It's VERY tiring. Maybe I'm clumsy, but one hand scrolling on the iPhone is difficult and moves everything around. Compare that with single click scrolling.
Now I wish the screen on my E51 would be larger. Sure. Less scrolling is always good. I'll wait for the E52 prices to come down. I'm honestly not in a hurry.
desmondie wrote:I would probably still be using my much beloved 7650 if only Nokia had given it bluetooh audio ;-(Since then I've had several Win Mo's, S60's and a Blacberry - currently using a 5800xm - and nothing is a better form factor for me!!
I agree about the 5800xm, I think the X6 will be an improvement if you can forgive the obvious disadvantages of it having a capacitive touch screen.