[IxDA Discuss] iPhone - review

[Daniel C. Montiel]

This is my only real problem.  Mine is the same way.  I get less than  
24 hours, and that's with no/little video playing at all.

Daniel

On Jul 4, 2007, at 4:49 PM, David Polinchock wrote:

> I just posted some of my initial reactions to the iPhone at
> http://tinyurl.com/ywarx4 but I gotta' tell you, I had some pretty bad
> battery life today.  I only made 3 calls, none of them completed  
> just so I
> could show people what happened when you were doing something on  
> the phone
> and a call came in, I used e-mail, took photos and my daughter  
> watched a few
> hours of video and the battery was out by 7 PM.  And I unplugged it  
> this
> morning about 10 AM.  According to Apple, I should get 7 hours of  
> straight
> video playback and I didn't get any where near that!  How have  
> other people
> been doing with battery life?
>
> David
>
>
>> From: "Daniel C. Montiel" <torrentprime at mac.com>
>> Date:  Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:07:11 -0700
>> To: <discuss at lists.interactiondesigners.com>
>> Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone - review
>>
>> *  Looking at the interaction of things, if space bar didn't accept
>> the autocomplete, then users would have to move up to the word, every
>> time,  to accept each correction. This would break the flow of  
>> typing.
>> *  The x-in-a-circle, which is what the tip over the word shows, is
>> used pretty extensively across the iPhone's GUI to show deletion.  It
>> would seem odd to not have it do the same here.
>> *  If the x-in-a-circle was removed, then both space bar and tap-on-
>> the-word would do the same thing; duplicate functionality isn't
>> really a good thing on a mobile device where every pixel matters.
>> *  If the space bar functionality was removed and only the tap-on- 
>> the-
>> word did it, then the delete functionality would be lost entirely and
>> there would be no way to cancel the autocomplete/correct aside from
>> another button or keystroke somewhere else on the screen, which would
>> be even further removed from the actual word itself. This way, it
>> stays inline with the text area being populated and is where your eye
>> is anyway.
>>
>> I think they made the right call, myself.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 3, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Won Sun Parque wrote:
>>>
>>>> But to me, I keep having the urge to move my finger up to press the
>>>> suggested word itself to accept it. Kind of like. "Oh yeh, that's
>>>> the word I want.", and touch! But then, BOOM, the word is gone....
>>>> Turns out, if you touch the word that you want, it means cancel!
>>>
>>> Yup, I kept doing this the first 3-4 times. After I figured out the
>>> space bar suggestion/workaround, I stopped hitting the word that was
>>> suggested with the X in the top corner. I still think that selecting
>>> the word or hitting the space bar should do the same thing. From a
>>> proximity standpoint and Fitz's law, the space bar is faster and  
>>> more
>>> efficient, but the my behavior and expectation was that clicking the
>>> word that's showing up should fill it in.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Todd Zaki Warfel
>>> President, Design & Usability Specialist
>>> Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
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>>> In theory, theory and practice are the same.
>>> In practice, they are not.
>>>
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"Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on  
the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn't place your  
hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."