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When is small too small? |
axxxr
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Have you ever noticed how every year gadgets get smaller and smaller? We hadn’t, but those eagle-eyed aces over at the New York Times[ haven’t been asleep at the switch like us and have an article today about the pitfalls of over-miniaturization. Michel Marriott takes a look at emerging personal technologies and how the quest to make gadgets ever-smaller can lead to some serious usability issues, all the while playing the “isn’t it amazing what they can do in so little space?” card. The most tear-jerking, eye-opening moment is when Marriott talks to very tall people who try to use very tiny cellphones and asks them, “Do your fingers hurt?”, and concludes that technology manufacturers should start thinking about this stuff or pay the price…something with which we actually agree.
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marlonxp
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Now thats small.
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marceta
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thats just dumb! |
djole89
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Things are going to get smaller and smaller till they make chips that will be implated in brain, and it will have camera (you can take pics with ur eyes), lots of memory, music player, and we will control it with our thoughts!!! Maybe not we, but for shure, our granchildren...
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blackspot
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perhaps devices should come in different sizes too 
"do you have a size 7 P910?"
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knight4led
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@djordje1yu I feel like modern technology is finally catching up with all the crazy people that walk around the streets talking to themselves. They've had the mobile phone implants that are mentally controlled for years. Us normal people are just now discovering the technology as things become smaller and harder to see by other pedestrians. I think I walked by a guy with a phone implant that was talking to the pope yesterday. |
DeLa
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I am rather tall but use a T600 anyway, as you know one of the - if not the - lightest and smallerst mobile of any brand.
The keyboard works better and most accurate than those on most other phones, bigger or almost as small. So this is not an argument, on the contrary.
But for me 'portability' is also an issue. A phone that small and light just disappears in your pocket. If you put it in the pocket of a suit the suit will not hang or have a bubble.
And since 'carrying around' is the most important use of a mobile, this is what I call functional. It comes down to what you define as functional.
That said, I'll probably get a new phone before the end of the year and am considering models that are substantially bigger and heavier. That is because I have been tempted to a phone with more features in which a larger screen would be welcome, but how I am going to manage that bulk and weight is some point of consideration and I know for sure that I will regret not having the featherlight in use on many occasions. If the premini were out here I'd go for that thing immediately, but untill then no other phone can beat the t600 is small/light/functional.
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Posted: 2004-10-14 17:03
