Looks like everyone is bitching and only talking about the scrolling issue (very common HN meta feedback).
I find the use of eink screen brilliant! I hope they manage to go on the market (and in EU too!)
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why not just use the links on the left?
Misses some animation but still gives you all the info.
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#53The "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)
It's interesting how often people talk about looking for the scrolling hint. Until (sort-of-)recently, the presence of the _scroll bar_ was the hint, and it worked well for the multiple decades it had been in use.
I had mostly gotten used to the new super scrolly pages, but this site breaks it by looking like a one-screen site with a footer and sidebar.
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#54Slightly 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…
BlackBerrys have had it forever.
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#55So the phone's first feature is the fact that it is always on?
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#56"Hi Honey! Do you remember about our Dinner?" "Oops, sorry dear... I got this new phone now and its so entertaining that I really forgot about our Dinner."
I'll be waiting for you in our Lovely Place.
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#57I wonder why there's no Ogg Vorbis besides MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR, MIDI and WAV in the audio specifications.
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#58Can you use the device in e-ink only mode all the time? For all apps and phone calls etc?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I got a scrollbar too but the page is neatly arranged to fit the browser's window so I didn't pay attention to it. It's the first time I've seen a footer from the top of a scrollpage.
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#60Looks like everyone is bitching and only talking about the scrolling issue (very common HN meta feedback). I find the use of eink screen brilliant! I hope they manage to go on the market (and in EU too!)
Ditto. I'm kinda fed up of people focusing on websites when the story is clearly about a cool new phone with an advanced display.
If folks would spend a few seconds ignoring the site and thinking about the product they might enjoy themselves a bit more. By all means critique the site but don't let that be your only contribution.