[IxDA Discuss] iPhone - review

[Josh Viney]

At first I was a little confused by the suggested words and found myself
wanting to reach out and touch them. After a few sms' and a few emails, I
found that completely ignoring the suggested words and just typing was the
easiest/fastest thing to do. It takes trust, but seems to work out pretty
well.

Hakan asked:

- How many taps to dial a number.
1 or 2 taps to get to the dial pad depending on whether you were previously
on the dial pad when using the Phone or if you have to select dial pad,
dialing the number, and tapping "Call" button.

- How many taps to find a contact and select the number to call (if multiple
numbers for a contact)
If the phone is unlocked, it's possible to dial a number from your
addressbook or from a missed call in 2 taps. First tap to select Phone mode,
second to select the number/person you want to call. 2 or 3 taps and some
scrolling is more likely though.

- How easy to answer the phone?
It's pretty easy, although I do have to look at the phone.

- What happens when you surf or listen to music and a call is coming in.
Music pauses while you take the call then restarts when you finish the call.
The browser does pretty much the same thing because it can't download pages
on Edge at the same time you're on a call.

- Is it easy to go from other functions to call a number?
Easy as clicking the Home button then the Phone icon.

- How easy to select a number in another application and call it
I did notice phone number highlighting in SMS, not sure if clicking the
numbers calls them or adds them to addressbook. I haven't seen other
examples of similar yet, although in Google Maps when you search for a place
and tap to see more info about the place it will show you a phone number if
one is available and you can call it by tapping it. There isn't any copy and
paste functionality, so if the app doesn't recognize the string as a phone
number, there's no way to easily add it to addressbook.



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Josh Viney
EastMedia Group
http://www.eastmedia.com