http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/ Engadget Mobile Comments for iPhone trumps HTC Touch, N95 in usability study http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/Sep 24th 2007 11:00PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/Sep 25th 2007 12:12AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/Sep 25th 2007 12:14AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
If the N95 is that hard for people to use, then I'm more really glad Jobs invented the iPhone to protect them from themselves. ]]>Sep 25th 2007 1:49AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/Dec 7th 2007 12:20AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
Oh... and if these people were able to figure out that you had to hold down the unlabeled little black button on the top of the iPhone for 5 seconds (without any visual queues or prompting) and then slide the slider sideways, and not too fast and make sure you slide it all the way or it will "slide back" and not shut off... wow, they must be some kind of apple iPod Touch users or something because to me, that was WAY less intuitive than "pushing the button with the power symbol on it and then selecting Power Off from the menu with the D-Pad/Soft Key."

The iPhone is beautiful and the UI is gorgeous and you find yourself just doing stuff to watch it be beautiful but intuitive and easy to find things (finding the @ sign, doesn't rotate when you are in the keyboard, figuring out if it's in 'shift mode' to get capitalization or not as the letters on the keyboard are always caps, figuring out how to put caps lock on... and that's just the keyboard :D)

Just my $0.02]]>Sep 25th 2007 2:52AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
Whats that? All of them? Thats what I thought.]]>Sep 25th 2007 5:29AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
Wake me up when there's actually something not-entirely-pointless to report about the iPhone.]]>Sep 25th 2007 7:02AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
America doesn't even see usage of much s60 devices
like other places thats why its not intuitive. bust out the old nokia handsets, u know which ones im talking about, the old 1000 2000 series; bring those out and everyone will know how to use one play with it text( if the phones had it available haha). everyone is assaulted with iphone ads of course they know how to use it]]>Sep 25th 2007 10:08AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/Sep 25th 2007 10:36AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
Call
Launch anything
SMS to anyone
...etc

So I guess it's easier to close out totally what your were doing just so you can launch another thing?]]>Sep 25th 2007 11:07AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/Sep 25th 2007 11:08AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
I guess I can't disagree with the study's outcome...I just don't think that it's a particularly useful study.]]>Sep 25th 2007 12:04PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/Sep 25th 2007 12:17PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/24/iphone-trumps-htc-touch-n95-in-usability-study/
but the results are pretty simple to discern...

2. WinMob is about the possibility of doing everything if you can figure it out and find the right software and registry changes
S60 is for smart-phones only (no touch screen devices), slow and boring
UIQ was the best phone IU before V3.0 and over a VERY stable and robust Symbian core, but it pretty much committed Seppuku with the P990
iPhone is about what you have figured out and can demonstrate to others (and the self-sustaining bliss of not knowing what you don't know)]]>Sep 25th 2007 7:42PM