| Friday, August 24, 2007 |
10:51 - I'm sure it's all just hype
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294334,00.html
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Seeing ads for phones like the new Helio Ocean (or whatever the new model is that's "built by Samsung, powered by Helio," and advertised precisely like an iPhone), I get the sense that the market is soon to be flooded with iPhone-respondent products. Not that I mind this: we all like competition, and if the iPhone makes phones in general better, then awesome.
But this (via JMH) doesn't sound encouraging for the first volley's chances:
The Nokia N95 costs $750, even more than the iPhone, and is jam-packed with features like a high-resolution camera, radio receiver and satellite Global Positioning System receiver.
There are 13 buttons on its face, and that's before you slide the screen out to reveal the keypad.
Two of the N95's buttons take you to a top menu. But each button takes you to a different top menu.
The menus navigate differently. The first doesn't have all the options of the other, the second has all the options but hides some of them. How am I supposed to remember which menu has which option?
This wouldn't have bugged me before using the iPhone. But the iPhone has a way of opening one's eyes.
After using its beautiful, logical touch-screen interface, I get the feeling that if an Apple designer had said "Hey, let's give it two top menus! Give the user more choice," Chief Executive Steve Jobs would have demanded not just his resignation but his left pinky finger. Just as a lesson.
Who'll lead the second volley? One guess...
(The latter via CapLion, who has a link to something else interesting...)
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Brian Tiemann
