Monday, December 10, 2007

Touch Screens on Phones

Unlike touch screens for items like banking screens, computer screens, and navigation systems, touch screens on cell phones are obnoxious. Phones such as the Chocolate and the Helio are not efficient nor do they work well. To use one of those phones is almost impossible unless you sit and practice with it for hours. To dial a number you need to slide the phone open which leads you to the numbers which altogether is around 2 inches long. Then to send or clear something is not an actual button but a touch sensitive button. Those buttons are hit or miss. You either do exactly what you want or you end a call, clear all the numbers clear only 2 of the numbers, you really never know. Then when you try to scroll through your contacts list lets say, it’s a hassle because there is no arrow key to scroll with. In fact, there is no key at all. In order to scroll you have to use a centimeter long side scroll which is modeled after a computer screen. With acrylic nails like mine, it is physically impossible to complete that task. With no nails at all it is still is almost impossible. Why would you really spend so much money for technology that cannot function?

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