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ColdFusion 2009-09-01 18:57
Re: Portrait mode use cases
 
So now you just have to show where Nokia promotes texting in landscape or portrait mode while driving a train.

daperl 2009-09-01 19:00
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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 319559)
Ok, I guess I will have to wait til I get the actual device to play with it :) Like I said previously, if this device passed Nokia's usability experts then it should be good enough for the population. It's just that there's been very few landscape-oriented phones in the past.
********, you were right the first time. Anyone that doesn't get the one-handed ease-of-use of a camera phone in portrait mode is delusional.

sjgadsby 2009-09-01 19:03
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Originally Posted by ColdFusion (Post 319680)
So now you just have to show where Nokia promotes texting in landscape or portrait mode while driving a train.
Oh, I'll be keeping a close eye on Javier now, I assure you. If he even thinks of adding portrait support, let me tell you...

allnameswereout 2009-09-01 19:05
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Originally Posted by YoDude (Post 319459)
While operating a mobile device with one hand, what is it that you suppose people are doing with the other? I mean, do you think that in at least a few cases their other hand is involved in a primary task that should have their attention?
Well, when I go do grocery shopping I sometimes have a paper in one hand. If I had a device to flag (or scan) the items I'd prefer to do that with one hand instead of two. I'd also want as little user interaction as possible, and make sure the item is also processed in my 'inventory', as well as the date it goes bad somehow tagged and read (yeah, dream on, maybe some RFID reader in future). The same would be true when I'd walk with my grocery bag to my car and someone phones me. The fact I can simply walk around and quickly navigate with my Nokia E71 and its little keyboard and dpad provides an advantage in certain situations; purely because of its design. However, there is not one perfect product suitable for everything.

You can also imagine that the application simply behaves different (in some ways more lightweight but maybe also allowing something good different because of change) and that this is optimized for the use cases.

allnameswereout 2009-09-01 19:06
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Originally Posted by daperl (Post 319681)
********, you were right the first time. Anyone that doesn't get the one-handed ease-of-use of a camera phone in portrait mode is delusional.
Hnn, no matter what mode, I kinda like to hold a camera in 2 two hands for aided stability resulting to better quality.

YoDude 2009-09-01 19:08
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Originally Posted by ColdFusion (Post 319680)
So now you just have to show where Nokia promotes texting in landscape or portrait mode while driving a train.
Simple, check out the stickers they'll be putting on the phone. Not one of them specifically warns against it... :p

sjgadsby 2009-09-01 19:11
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Originally Posted by YoDude (Post 319689)
Simple, check out the stickers they'll be putting on the phone.
And people thought the "disconnect your charger" message was too much. That was only the beginning.


For external use only. Not to be used as a flotation device.

ColdFusion 2009-09-01 19:16
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It does contribute to global warming, because of all the trees that have been cut to produce those warning labels ;)

pelago 2009-09-01 19:54
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Originally Posted by qgil (Post 319552)
Take the device with your right hand, clipped with the thumb on the screen, the middle in the back and the index on the shooter. Turn the device to the left so your hand is on top. Shoot!
Thanks for that. That looks like it'll work. The only issue with that is that this is (as far as I know) rotating the the device in the opposite direction to normal portrait mode. Not a big issue if the device is clever enough to detect that.

qgil 2009-09-01 19:54
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Portrait mode in xterm, go convince https://garage.maemo.org/projects/osso-xterm/ (probably better with patches). fyi this is a project without UI designers or product managers (that I'm aware for). Be prepared. :)

Portrait mode for your shopping list, none of our business but you might want to talk to the PyRecipe developer.


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