Comments on: Exploring a Web Phone: Getting Physical

By: Dannie Larner

Dannie Larner — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:02:36 +0000

It definitely should have always been the icing on the cake but in fact Simon Cowell’s birthday surprise for Nicole Scherzinger took the biscuit. The sardonic natural talent television show don patiently waited just up until the very last minute of the 2nd day related to Seattle auditions to provide his fellow judge her goodies.

By: sencha tea

sencha tea — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:37:40 +0000

For nowadays a lot of webphones are already introduced to the market. I remember the first class of cellphone that i have before, it is a black and white, lols but for now all phones has a great graphics and apps etc. Time and technology moves rapidly.

By: Oled

Oled — Sat, 14 May 2011 05:12:24 +0000

I love the fact that flexible OLEDs have a faster response time than LEDs!

By: Sex

Sex — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:00:31 +0000

How about a small, thin, flexible computer encased in a sturdy plastic cover with the words “Don’t Panic” inscribed on it in large, friendly letters?

By: porno

porno — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:45:50 +0000

No keys (only tiny power button on top), only screen, black back, almost no edges on front, fennec with gestures, running on android. Thats how!

By: Zayıflama Lida Fx15 Ve Biber Hapı Zlfvbh

Zayıflama Lida Fx15 Ve Biber Hapı Zlfvbh — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:21:00 +0000

A touch screen that looks flat but feels bumpy so you can tell where your fingers are on it without looking.

By: kbotond

kbotond — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:56:03 +0000

A similar software based implementation can be found at http://www.mizu-voip.com/Products/WebPhone.aspx

By: Moody Loner

Moody Loner — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:41:28 +0000

For me personally, the “physical” design of the phone is far less important than the software running it – my ratio would be 70/30 in favour of the OS/apps over phone size, shape and weight any day(a la G1)

I like where this is going though, and I am using the G1 at the moment and it is somewhat restricted by the design (poor battery life for example) but the main thing is that; and this goes for ALL phones which interact with the web; the size of the screen and the resolution needed for a readable webpage are never going to be compatible at the sizes they[screens] are at the minute. Even mobile specific sites are poorly formatted compared to pages that laptops and even netbooks (7″+) screens can display.

Looking at the design presented, do the hard keys really need to be there? How about virtual OLED keys, they can change at will and provide more screen real estate that a hard set would take up. If, like UMAIR mentioned, you implement a plastic keyboard over the screen for tactility you would have the best of both options – why not have it flexible enough to be rolled under / over from the bottom of the screen (concealing the main part of the keyboard inside the back of the phone) to slide over the screen and back in again when the user doesn’t require it. Sort of like the way a roller shutter works, except – this keeps the keyboard flat when not in use. If you look at the G1 keyboard for example, the actual height of the keys from the body is very slight – why couldn’t this be implemented in a plastic overlay? You could also design the virtual icons to rotate when in landscape mode with no need to change the orientation of the keyboard.

Just a thought…

By: Philip Ganchev

Philip Ganchev — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:55:56 +0000

I have always found it so ridiculous how uncomfortable it is to hold a phone and punch the buttons with the thumb of the same hand. The grip is very loose and the curve of the thumb is very unnatural. So I thought a lot about how to make that more comfortable. One of my designs has the buttons above the screen rather than below. This is much easier to hold.

The obvious objection is that you have to look lower than your hand. I don’t find that a problem, so I think it warrants user testing. Another objection is that the palm partly obscures the screen. To avoid that, the phone could be slightly curved to put the screen out of the way.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:48:50 +0000

I dont want the phone to ‘be’ the web. I want it to be integrated into my own processes and flexible to adapt to them. Therefore I want it to be extandable on hardware and software side. For excample: It it has a camera, I want to use it to take pictures to store on the phone. But also to be able to allow the flickr webpage to use the camera. Or to connect the phone with my computer to use the phones cam as a webcam. Or the other way around if i have a better camera, nearby, tell the phone to use this one instead for the pictures…
The same excample can be told with recording audio or playing audio…

So what we need is massiv standarisation so that a all the device-creator can build uppon this standard…

ps: sorry for the bad english :)