Carlo Longino muses on touchscreens, and he’s not convinced they’re great. I agree with his complaints, but (like I’ve said before) I think that once touchscreens with haptic response are on the market it will all be over for hardkey-based phones.
“I think part of the problem here is that vendors and consumers are, to some extent, still focused on finding the perfect all-in-one device, whose form factor and interface support all manner of applications in the best possible way. This drives “big screen” thinking — the idea that the screen’s got to be a big as possible for web browsing or email composing or video playback. And if you’re going to have a big screen, it “has” to be a touchscreen…So, just as there will continue to be a diversity of devices with different form factors, feature sets and price tags, there should be a diversity of UIs as well.”
Link: The Question of Touchscreens (mobhappy.com)
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