apple.com — Apple has posted an iPhone Keyboard Video which shows off just how easy to use the virtual keyboard is. It recognizes words, and helps you by doing things such as dynamically changing the size of the button's press zones. Should see, pretty neat.
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lavchanJun 28, 2007
No, that's not the point you're making, unless you're just trying to state the incredibly obvious. The problem is that a blind person would not want the iPhone anyway because most of its features are inherently inaccessible to them. They would have no use for a phone that can play movies (they are blind), display photos (they are blind), render Web pages true to their intended lay-outs (they are blind), access YouTube (they are blind), change perspective when turned on its side (they are blind), and permit a visually striking method of browsing music (they are blind). Even if the iPhone's keyboard was 100% blind-person-accessible they still would not be able to make use of its most unique features, so the point is completely moot. If what they want is something with tactile and audible feed-back they are better off getting a phone that isn't designed almost entirely around visual aesthetics.
Closed AccountJun 28, 2007
Except apple makes more money if they release an entirely new generation.
udahlenJun 28, 2007
They should have put full stop (".") and comma (",") on the main screen as well.
digg0tJun 28, 2007
Yeah I think I will wait for a PS4 as well, because it will be more worth it. Man get with the times, no one waits for stuff any more, we are impulse buyers influenced by viral advertising.
nick519Jun 28, 2007
i love how now that real reviews have come in saying "you know, it's not all just hype -- this thing is actually really amazing", haters are now backsliding into any ridiculous argument they can grasp. "nobody has said 'run and get it'"? -- jeebus.
rupprupp29Jun 28, 2007
Wow, iPhone corrects words you often misspell, capitalizes the first letter of each sentence, and suggests words before you finish typing them?That's so amazing. I wish they'd put something like that in other software programs.. like, say, Microsoft Office or something.
vudicarusJun 28, 2007
test
cheesenessJun 29, 2007
When quoting someone, perhaps (for example the title of a story you yourself submitted: "McCain: It's "fun" when I "misspeak" about Iraq"). Perhaps when ridiculing those who engage in teh 1337 h4x0r sp33k or lolcat style "im in ur X Ying ur Z".Regardless of whether/why you would have need to, the fact remains that it negatively impacts on the accessibility of the device. You have an interface that appears to remain static when it changes.