Samsung makes some nice phones and I do like the haptics they built in to at least one of the trouch screen models, but I'm not a big fan of the Samsung Omnia HD i8910. The Omnia HD is Samsung new, very large, touch screen mobile phone based on the Symbian operating system.If you watch this video you can see just how clumsy and unresponsive the touch screen on this phone is. Perhaps it will improve but the phone has bigger problems than that.
Notice in the video how the icons are dragged off the bar onto the main screen and then touched to activate. This is an great example of touch done wrong. Why do you need to drag the icon off the side bar before you can click it? There are other issues with its touch design but that's the one that really bothered me the most.
Drag and drop is a powerful feature in touch and multitouch applications but it really seems to be one of the most abused features as well.
2 comments:
That drag-then-touch interface, at least on my verizon omnia, is not intrinsic to the phone. It's an app that runs on top of windows mobile 6.1 and can be turned off easily.
Is the HD here different?
Oops. I didn't notice the bit about the OS at first. My bad
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