10 Things I Hate About Mobile Pontification
- Author:
- Len Shneyder
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We can all agree that mobile is like smoking hot. Right? That said, there are tons of articles, day in and day out that sing the praises of this device or that device. There’s the camp of doom and gloom sooth-sayers that foretell of the fall of our favorite fruit, Apple, and then others who claim that it’s a harbinger signaling the coming of the messiah. Yet there are others that want nothing to do with what they see as the fascist regime of Apple and listen to way too much Devo on their Andoirds. Whatever camp you sit in I’m sure it’s the right camp for you. However demagoguery cannot go unanswered and I feel like I have to throw my sombrero into the ring and respond to a post from this recent article in eWeek magazine.
- Touch-screen quality varies – Yeah, it does… but seriously, is it up to Google to determine touch screen quality? Let’s remember, they don’t make the handset, they just make the operating system. As a loyal disciple of Apple I agree that iPhones have the best quality, but I don’t think if I was RIM I’d advertise that my devices were subpar. Now how is this something the mobile giants don’t want me to know?
- Virtual Keyboards are the worst – This is what I chalk up to personal preference. I had some difficulty with my iPhone when I first bought it, but within a week I was texting and twittering from it like a 12 year old. I could probably type out all of Hamlet at this point with a 90% accuracy rate. The point is, you get used to what you use and you learn to adapt. My fingers are kind of “fat” for a QWERTY keyboard, and as it so happens, the virtual keys in landscape on an iPhone are larger than a QWERTY. So why is it the worst again? Did I mention I think the spell correction feature is more often right than wrong on an iPhone? As for the Blackberry, well I think the idea of clicking before a character appears is a good one-- it cuts down on random keystrokes and accidently hitting characters—but I just don’t think RIM executed it well as it requires too much force to “click.”
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