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    Coolest Cellphone Interface Ever Is Also Absolutely Useless

    How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone

    AT&T CEO Slips Up, Possibly Confirming Dell Smartphone Rumors

    Samsung Omnia HD Hands On Video: Amazing Screen, Still Bad Response

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    04/03/09

    In reply to Samsung Omnia HD Hands On Video: Amazing Screen, Still Bad Response
    I think the Omnia i910 is a phone that needs a little tweaking, but otherwise is pretty damn cool.


    I've been able to do more with it that I originally thought and keeps surprising me in cool ways.

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    Image of the_Sleepwalker the_Sleepwalker
    02/18/09

    In reply to Coolest Cellphone Interface Ever Is Also Absolutely Useless
    Somewhere, there is a graphic designer touching themselves. What crap. Come on, the audience watching the video in a frame? Form = function? Remember that?
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    Image of xint xint
    02/18/09

    In reply to Coolest Cellphone Interface Ever Is Also Absolutely Useless
    ...I don't understand how this interface is "useless".

    The only thing missing is an Office Software suite.


    It's fun to use. Great response.


    I think it'd actually make work fun for once!

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/18/09

    @xint: Yeah it looks perfectly functional. The only thing is that I'm getting nauseous from all the shaking.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/17/09

    In reply to How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone
    I've gotten used to my Nuvi requiring multiple touches to get it to respond. But while it's perfectly acceptable to tolerate an unresponsive GPS screen while swerving in rush hour traffic, there's no way I would accept a laggy phone.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/17/09

    In reply to AT&T CEO Slips Up, Possibly Confirming Dell Smartphone Rumors
    The only reason I would like this to be true is my (now) wide open Dell account.


    For ME however, it's going to have to be significantly cooler than my i910 Omnia, which for me as my first smartphone is pretty goram cool.

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    Image of Xentrax Xentrax
    02/17/09

    In reply to How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone
    The first thing I did with my Samsung Omnia was switching from Samsung Widgets Today screen to "Samsung 1" Today screen. The second thing was to disable "Large Start Menu" and that almost solved touch screen lags.


    Why does Samsung enable these things by default - I don't know... I'm afraid most of the users will not change these settings.


    Fortunately (and unlike _simple_ phones), Windows Mobile allows to change Today screen and even without any 3rd party software it is possible to have good Today screen in Samsung Omnia.

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/17/09

    @Xentrax:


    Today 1 is indeed a viable alternative, and if you ask me, a bit more practical for daily use that the TouchWiz interface.

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    Image of jchabotte jchabotte
    02/17/09

    In reply to How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone
    I have the new Samsung Omnia. And large fingers.. (ask my wife!). And i haven't had any of the problems exhibited in the video above.


    Side widget bar opens up just fine for me (you have to slide it open, not just touch it, the user in the video apparently doesn't know this), and i don't have a problem with any real lag. The only problem i have with this phone as far as lag is concerned is opening up the camera. Pressing the camera button button quickly takes me to the photos first, but i have to press and hold it again to get to the actual camera, i'd rather have that reversed as having a two year old son, you only get a few seconds to get those "Kodak" moments.

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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    02/17/09

    @jchabotte: The "user" is the official Samsung demo dude, so he knows how it works perfectly. The same behavior is exhibited by the rest of the phones too. Everything we tried. Do we all have defective fingers?
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/17/09

    In reply to How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone
    You make a great point, Jesus.


    I LOVE my i910 Omnia, but I fully acknowledge that you have to tinker and tweak a little to get it "right".


    I'm also in the minority as a geek/enthusiast.


    Samsung should be making their touchscreen phones much better than they are because your average consumer just wants it to be right STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!

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    Image of Sockatume Sockatume
    02/17/09

    In reply to How Not To Make a Touchscreen Phone
    It's resistive touchscreens, basically. They're a pain in the arse versus capacitive. Unfortunately few media outlets seem to keep track of which handsets have which, except for the occasional mention of multi-touch (which is generally available on capacitive screens only).
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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    02/17/09

    @Sockatume: AFAIK, the touch and the omnia are capacitive. Or so i was told.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/16/09

    In reply to LG GD900 Phone Slides to Reveal a See-Thru Keypad
    I think if that were my phone, I'd constantly be trying to break off the transparent keyboard appendage.


    Of course, if the whole thing were transparent, and every now and then watery waves appeared across its surface followed by your friends' faces for video chat, like the kind of cellphone that would be issued to all incoming students at Hogwarts, then that would not be something I would want to break.

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    Image of daftrok daftrok
    02/16/09

    In reply to LG GD900 Phone Slides to Reveal a See-Thru Keypad
    Ugh...a keypad? They could have at least put a 1/2 QWERTY on there.
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    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    02/16/09

    @daftrok: I'm really hoping that someone produces a phone like this with both a qwerty keypad and a regular keypad like this. that would be sexy
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    02/16/09

    In reply to Windows Mobile 6.5 Hands On: The New Interface Rocks
    I'm not impressed. First of all, the whole thing seems very sluggish.. and that on a presentation model.. immagine on a normal phone after a few weeks of use.

    The interface has no logic to it; the honeycomb design is unnecessarily complex; the UI is half Zune, half something else... it will become annoying once the novelty effect has worn off.


    Fail.

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/16/09

    In reply to Windows Mobile 6.5 Announced, Leaks Confirmed
    I honestly think this looks sexy as hell. I hope it feels slick and has some real power behind it. I love the absolutely insane number of applications available for WinMo (more than the other device), but it seriously needed some UI love to make it a little more lovable.


    If MS is putting as much love into WinMo as they did Win7, then I just may have a geekgasm.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/16/09

    In reply to Acer's First Smartphones Are Missing Something
    Yawn...
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    Image of HyperDrunk HyperDrunk
    02/16/09

    In reply to Windows Mobile 6.5 Hands On: The New Interface Rocks
    You can't have 2 finger gestures because of the patent apple has I believe. the htc phones are capable of the 2 finger gestures, they just can't use them due to apple's patent on it i believe
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    02/16/09

    @HyperDrunk: The touchscreen technology in the iPhone that enables the 2 finger gestures is an Apple patent.
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