[OT] iPhone anyone?

[Marian Petrides]

Actually, I'm able to type quite fast with a single finger on my  
iPhone, but my hands are quite small.  It'll take a while for me to  
be able to type with two thumbs, but I rarely do that anyway.  One  
trick that really does work is to just type and depend on the  
predictive typing to actually work--most of the time it does quite  
well, although I bet it wouldn't do as well with esoteric words (like  
medical terms).

As for zooming with the map, I found tapping to work well, but it was  
possible to tap to a zoom level for which there were no images--which  
at first looked like the map application had hung up.  Then I tried  
used the finger-squeeze technique to zoom back out a little and poof  
the satellite map came back.

M

On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Well, I finally went down to the Apple store to check it out. Of  
> course the
> place was packed. They had about 30 iPhones there people could play  
> with.
> Some observations:
>
>
>   - Most definitely 'perfectly sized' form factor. Beautiful finish.
>   - Software and interface extremely intuitive. All of it works well
>   (except Map*)
>   - When operating it, there really is a WOW factor. It really is
>   beautiful software. Reminds me of a futuristic demonstration  
> video prepared
>   by Hollywood.
>   - Very surprised at the data rate. I was able to see YouTube vids
>   quickly. The browser seemed a little slow, but not bad. Not until  
> later when
>   Chris reminded me I was on a WAN did I realize it. I imagine the  
> Edge
>   network would be slow. If it's like the Sidekick, it's too slow  
> to really
>   surf the net.
>   - Tried using the Map application, but it kept crashing. The two
>   finger 'zoom in' and 'zoom out', while cool, is very confusing to  
> the Map
>   application. Much better would be a zoom slider switch you could  
> drag with
>   one finger.
>   - Absolutely could not type on the keyboard. Very difficult. Perhaps
>   my fingers are too large. Where's the stylus when you need one?  
> (Side note:
>   there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this  
> thing.) My guess
>   is they'll have to fix the keyboard input. AFAICT, it's just not  
> usable.
>
>
> I know I'll wait for them to get the kinks out.
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