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Re: Yotaphone

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Post by jonknee » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:25 PM UTC

archgrove wrote: post #32

Trufa wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It drives me nuts this new fashion of braking the scrolling, it's completely uncalibrated on chrome, I scrolled down the equivalent of a freaking book to get to the end.

Doesn't work at all with 2-finger scrolling on Safari for Mac.

Or Chrome. I had no idea it could scroll at all and closed the tab before seeing these comments.

Update: even weirder, it does scroll somewhat, but gets stuck and won't respond to two-finger scrolling. All in all a terrible idea for navigation.

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by davidw » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:26 PM UTC

kenkam wrote: post #39

BrechtVds wrote: post #2

The "Scroll down" hint wasn't obvious enough for me. I'd also show both screens as soon as you land on the page, as that is the unique feature of this phone and it took me quite some time before I actually found it. (If you don't scroll but just click on the links you just see 1 screen at a time. If you aren't really paying attention you don't notice that there are 2 different ones)

Didn't know I had to scroll down till I read this comment. Maybe a stronger call to action to scroll would be nice.

If you have to "yell" at people to do something like that, it means your UI is broken.

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by mradmin » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:27 PM UTC

kenkam wrote: post #39

BrechtVds wrote: post #2

The "Scroll down" hint wasn't obvious enough for me. I'd also show both screens as soon as you land on the page, as that is the unique feature of this phone and it took me quite some time before I actually found it. (If you don't scroll but just click on the links you just see 1 screen at a time. If you aren't really paying attention you don't notice that there are 2 different ones)

Didn't know I had to scroll down till I read this comment. Maybe a stronger call to action to scroll would be nice.

Weird, I get a scrollbar showing I can clearly scroll. Are you an OSX by any chance?

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by stefantalpalaru » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:29 PM UTC

I'm curious how a smartphone with only one (e-paper) screen would behave. Better if it's high DPI. So far I've found only the announced Onyx phone[1] with no technical details about the screen.

[1]: https://onyx-boox.com/coming-soon-e-ink-news/e-ink-smartphon...

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by moreati » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:30 PM UTC

Slightly offtopic, a photo of an early mockup/protoype for this phone showed a physical vibrate-mode switch ala the iPhone. The final production module doesn't.

I've puzzled before why no Android phone (that I've seen) has a physical switch for vibrate. I can only assume Apple has a patent, but I've never found hard evidence. Anyone know of a phone other than the iPhone that has such a switch? Or the reason only the iPhone has it?

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by skykooler » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:32 PM UTC

scotth wrote: post #14

I think it's kind of fun. I love that it has an always on wallpaper.

This is one of my favorite features of my Nokia N9.

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by manmal » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:34 PM UTC

adnam wrote: post #19

What was that about "You Can't Build a Smartphone"? http://joshondesign.com/2013/12/02/nosmartphone

Never believe one person on the interwebs. (including me ;))

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by vincentkriek » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:39 PM UTC

choult wrote: post #29

jspc wrote: post #21

Phone aside I can't be the only person who finds the whole scrolling/animation thing just a bit obnoxious, can I? Such a slow way to get to the information.

I swear Logitech were onto something when they built flywheel mousewheels...

Especially the ones that had you select between flying en normal

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by InTheSwiss » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:40 PM UTC

BrechtVds wrote: post #2

The "Scroll down" hint wasn't obvious enough for me. I'd also show both screens as soon as you land on the page, as that is the unique feature of this phone and it took me quite some time before I actually found it. (If you don't scroll but just click on the links you just see 1 screen at a time. If you aren't really paying attention you don't notice that there are 2 different ones)

Yeah I only gave the page a quick glance and didn't notice it had two screens until I checked the specs page! Fail from a design point of view IMHO.

Re: Yotaphone

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Post by adamors » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 12:42 PM UTC

Looks cool but I couldn't bother spending more than 30 seconds on that page. Do you seriously expect your users to scroll for 2 minutes to present information that could be put into a slideshow/GIF/video?