Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
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Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
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Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#2I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back:
> I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#3I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
I hate the keyboard on my phone. For dialing a number, it's awful. Give me an old phone any day!
But the smartphone does so many other things, I put up with it.
That doesn't mean to say i wouldn't greatly welcome a smartphone with a dial on the edge, or a touchscreen with tactile feedback. But due to lack of imagination of designers, technical impossibility, or economic cost (i don't know which...) there's no such thing on the market.
Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#4I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#5I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
it was something literally every teenager and adult did. anybody who'd been using a phone for more than a year.
Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#6I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
More than numbers. We would write text messages without looking at the keypad. This required a lot more key presses than a number.
I could text while shifting but it wasn’t till touchscreens that everyone decided laws needed to be passed.
I miss k9. There were somehow fewer typos.
Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#7I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
Yeah. You could basically rest your fingers on a keypad like home keys and dial blind.
Actually very useful when looking at a phone number, and a great deal faster
Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#8I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
I could text and drive without ever taking my eyes off the road. Probably still not the safest, but I constantly see people staring down into their lap while driving now.
Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#9I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
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Re: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
#10I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back: > I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
I could do it while driving. It was much easier to do than you would imagine. The keypad only had 9 keys and if you would put the base of your thumb lightly on the 2 key you could reach the whole keypad without issue. Just about everyone learned to do this without trying. People who had predictive text like T9 had to work at it a little, but it was like riding a bicycle.