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Claus — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:20:59 +0000

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Comment on iPhone and Windows Phone 7 series side-by-side: The chrome, the chrome! by Bill

Bill — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:45:45 +0000

Actually, regarding the back button, there is a huge use for this that I really miss having gone to an iphone over a year ago. With no concept of “back” in iPhone, everything is a spoke from the “home” screens. This is not how people work, in general, but have adapted to it for the phone’s sake. As a design element, I think I can prove at least WHY this decision is an important one, even if you don’t buy into it.

Take, for example, tasks you do in everyday life at your desk. If you are preparing to pay some bills, for example, and you realize you need to look something up in your filing cabinet in the middle of the pocess, you don’t close everything up, put your checkbook away (I know…who uses a checkbook anymore…just go with it), put away all your bills until you have a clean desk. Then, with a fresh start, go get the information you needed, jot it down (copy), then go back to a clean desk, and start the process of paying bills again. When you get back to where you needed that information, then you fill it in (paste). People don’t WANT to always work in a single threaded, encompassed, walled environment, even on a smartphone. Granted, many scenarios don’t require interaction with multiple systems on the phone, but some do.

Let’s make this more related to a smartphone then. Consider this scenario (one example of countless scenarios). You are composing an email/facebook update/tweet/whatever, and want to inlcude a website you saw earlier, but can’t remember what it is, but also link to a photo that you haven’t taken yet. Then, finish the email/update/whatever and send. On the iPhone, this experience is painful (actually, impossible until a few months ago when cut and paste was finally implemented). The reason is that you must depend the application you are in to fully support everything you want to do. If you do have to use another app, this spoke model with no concept of “back” is not conducive to achieving your goal. You must do everything separately. With a back button, you can go do what you need to do (take a picture, find a website, an address, whatever, and hit the back button a few times, and you’re right back where you were. I have NO idea if that is how WP7S will implement the back button; we’ll have to wait and see. This is how MSFT has implemented the back button in WinMobile, and how it “should” be done (too bad the rest of WinMo lef so much to be desired).

Okay, so we know why a back button can be necessary/useful as a design element on a phone. Why a hardware button? That’s easy. Two major reasons. First, and this is more important, it’s because the back button trancends a task, an app, a webpage, etc. It is bigger than all of that. It allows you to go “back” between apps, hubs (in WP7S), tasks, screens, whatever. The second reason is related. Where do you put a “back” button on the touch UI that transcends everything on the screen and have that make sense? Especially in a “chromeless” UI like Metro on Windows Phone 7 Series? You can’t rely on each app or experience to provide this UI because it transcends that app/experience. You certainly don’t want it hovering over everything you do waiting for a finger touch, especially, again, in a UI without “chrome”. The only way to implement this on screen would be to put a hardware button on the device to bring up the back button, right? Well, at that point, just make the damn button a back button.

The defense rests.

Comment on iPhone and Windows Phone 7 series side-by-side: The chrome, the chrome! by sit2k

sit2k — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:31:37 +0000

Kurt,

MS will control hardware as stated since the announcement of wp7

Rasmus,

you can’t unlock the phone with with link, it’s a capacitive screen, not resistive. I use wm 6.5 pro now and i keep my phone in my pocket (touch pro 2 with resistive screen) and it doesn’t unlock on it’s own and the slider is a shorter swipe.

No one seems to get the point here.. When MS first hit the phone market, Palm was in their sights and that’s why their OS looked like that for years. Professionals also like the look of windows mobile because it simple and direct.

Now that GUI has become cartoon-like, MS has adapted to it as they always do and have bettered the whole market as they always have done in everything they do. The XBOX has NATAL later this year (completely destroying Wii) and now WP7.

Face the facts people, you just don’t mess with MS.