[IxDA Discuss] Nokia N95 now available...

[David Polinchock]

This is why I love my Nokia 9500 and I'm looking forward to the E90 so much.
It's a great combination of everything I need in a phone.  When closed, it's
a great phone and you can still call 1-800-GO-FEDEX without going crazy!
But, you can open it up and have a great keyboard and screen.  Plus, you
have a 3.2 megapixel (I think) camera and a VGA video camera on front for
video conferencing.

The biggest design challenge I think the industry still faces is how to move
from phone to phone.  I should be able to have multiple phones and move from
phone to phone based on what I'm doing.  If I need to write, I take the E90.
If I'm biking, I should be able to take something smaller.

BTW, I did get an iPhone yesterday and I've been playing with it for the
past 24 hours.  Have to admit that the screen interface is way cool and is
certainly lots of fun to play with.  Some things seem pretty crazy, like the
way you need to scroll through all of the names to make a phone call,
instead of being able go directly to the right name.  Especially since you
can do that in other functions, like e-mail.  And I wish that other
functions were able to change their orientation, like it does in Safari.  It
would really make the keyboard kick butt in applications like e-mail.  But
my daughter really loves to watch movies on it!

I'm sure they'll be lots more exploration the rest of the week!

David
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> From: Niklas Wolkert <niklas.wolkert at gmail.com>
> Date:  Sun,  1 Jul 2007 00:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <discuss at lists.interactiondesigners.com>
> Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nokia N95 now available...
> 
> Kevin: your point is very valid. ANd I definately don't encourgae it
> but do you think people using phones in cars do that less if they are
> forced to two hand operation? In a two hand case it gets even more
> dangerous. I fex use the GPS and hands free(on the N95) in car. But
> there are many other scenarios where one hand operation is more
> suitable.
> 
> Dave: About the article which I read, congratulations to Steve, even
> the Nokia CTO can't resist saying something iPhone related ;)
> 
> Rapid and heavy text entry would be a N95 flaw I suppose. It is
> standard T9 that remebers words you add to it. But thats it. You
> could always connect a foldable BT keypad but then you have to have
> another device with you.
> 
> Thing is I tend to in 90% of the time be within 30min of a lap top or
> other proper computer. So I use the phone to make calls, stay
> connected, create and consume media.
> 
> I love that I ALWAYS have a proper media player, camera for video and
> (good)images that I can upload to flickr or vox instantly, a GPS and a
> phone and don't have to have several devices for it. So if you
> exchange your iPod, digital camera or GPS for a N95 you could fit an
> extra keyboard in your pocket instead ;)
> 
> Your point about BB w/o a touch screen beeing much harder to use 1
> handed than a treo with one, I suppose proves the opposite of my
> theory then but that has not been my experience. Neither the BB or
> Treo has never been big around here.
> 
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