Nokia could do themselves a favour and continue to use the N95 base as a testing ground for the iPhone killer.
They don’t need to do anything to the hardware. The iPhone (and most of the market) is going to take a couple of years to catch up to the N95’s spec sheet, but the operating system needs a lot of work.
What the heck have the Symbion guys been doing all this time?
Why do we still have a confusing layering of menu/submenu?
I don’t necessarily need to change the aspect of the screen by rotating the handset (apart from shutting up the iPhone fan boys,) but moving through menus, or around the calendar by tilting the phone and not needing to unlock the keyboard would be good.
I’m pretty tired of the keypad unlocking itself when those two spongy buttons on the front of the slide are accidentally pressed (actually bugger that why can’t I use the camera shutter and gallery buttons to unlock the keyboard?) so unlocking the keypad with a gesture would be nice too.
Allowing people to create their own unlocking gesture would be an interesting security feature. Can’t repeat the right gesture, phone doesn’t unlock.
What about a spin on the desk to answer the phone (automatically jumps into speaker phone mode,) and spin in the opposite direction to close off the call?
The dpad is really crap so how bout using gestures to play games?
Move around web pages?
I don’t need a touch screen and I agree with Nokia’s argument in the past, that touch screens won’t replace keyboards. The mouse didn’t replace the keyboard but it’s pretty indispensable these days.
I reckon there is a lot Nokia could do with the functionality that is in the current range (hiring and interface designer that isn’t stuck in the eighties would be a good start.)
Sounds good. But I'll have to wait two months or so until T-Mobile get round to offering it :(
ReplyDeleteThe only positive bit is 'Wow', I guess you are a natural critic ;-). I'd rather see Nokia split off a alternative firmware
ReplyDeleteversion with a new experimental user-interface design and allow choice than stuff it down people throats. People are very sensitive to changes in their user-interfaces. Most people take ages to learn new tricks. Loads of people never wanted to or could learn the way Palm required you to write for pen-based text input. The new minor changes in the folder structure are nice though and smartly currently a matter of choice.
The N95 smartly rotates the screen when sliding the slide down. So I can lie in bed or on my couch sideways and not have my phone decide to change the orientation of my screen. Thank you to who ever the smart one was at Nokia. The N82 has no media-slide option and thus needs the rotation. Now if that front camera could detect the orientation of my eyes. That would be great and sadly a big power drain. So does the accelrator sensor I presume.
Still I'd love to hear what you like about the new firmware. You did start with 'wow'.
P.S. Are you now
ReplyDelete'very satisfied'?