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  Bugger! I'll be kicking it in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - lazing around my friends villa, as one does...

  Posted 11 Mar 07 in STIRR Sydney

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  New Phone for Mick

  Hmmm, what about the Nokia N95 .  It's got one of the best mobile browsers, a cool GPS mapping app, WiFi, 5MP camera and a nice big screen.  Symbian should allow you to have your chess game too... No full keyboard though.  And Symbian is a better mobile phone UI compared to Pocket PC. The N95 is the phone I expect to get while I wait for my iPhone

   

   

  Posted 27 Feb 07 in Gadget Freaks

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  Prada cellphone

  I used a prototype of one of these in Finland late last year and it was pretty buggy but a great approach.  The touch is nowhere near as advanced as the iPhone multipoint hard screen touch 'seems' to be, but it would still be worth a try except the price of the Prada phone is expected to be 600Euro, way more expensive than the iPhone.

  Posted 27 Feb 07 in Gadget Freaks

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  Samsung SGH-i600

  "I still don't know why a phone for technically advanced needs a a button for pickup and a button for hang up?"

  I'd suggest two reasons:

  1) A single button to do both would depend on the current mode in software which won't always be clear.  For example, clicking the 1 button would have different results if the other person has already hung up or not.  If they hadn't hung up, you would hang up, but if they hadn't hung up you would be initiating a new call to the last number.  People want dedicated functionality for confident interaction.  It would also cause more problems with multiple functionality such as answering a 2nd incoming call, a single button would make this more complex.

  2) That's what people are used to and if you want to change the status quo you had better have a good understanding of your customers and design a better interface to support it.  On a side note the iPhone has 'more' buttons but they are modal and have clearer functionality and the ability to change the buttons/labels.  However, because there is no tactile feedback to locate the specific button and no feedback on a press, is likely to mean it will seem unusual for customers at first.

  Posted 04 Feb 07 in Gadget Freaks

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  New Genres of TV On the Internet

  My favs are The Show with Ze Frank and 30 Seconds with Phone Guy ...

  Posted 31 Jan 07 in Internet TV

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  Message Search

  There should be a single search field and button (that could have various filter options that can be applied if required and some that could be defaulted dependent on location e.g. contextual filter to search within a group or within a Topic).  Like right now I'm trying to work out if anyone has discussed RSS output for the groups/topics/contacts I am interested in, within this Group.  But there's no way I'm going to read through every post... :-)  And while I think about it... how do I link to this post?

  Posted 31 Oct 06 in Tangler Feedback