[shadeofdawn]

It's good to see that they're thinking of usability on the Passport



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[Uzi]

Nice to see

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[Dodopremier]

Good. Just available now in France.

[anon(3993749)]

It's good to see that they're thinking of usability on the Passport



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What OS is that?

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[shadeofdawn]

The app was just updated. It didn't come with an OS update.

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[shakingthrough]

I feel like this is going to be a stupid question, but doesn't the mapping seem upside down? For instance I would have expected the X-C-V to correspond to the 1-2-3, and the W-E-R to correspond to the 7-8-9. Am I missing something?

[jhirizarry]

As you see, numbers are mapped accordingly to the virtual screen keys. But I didn't notice till now.

This is another screen shot from within Calc, this time on the Tips screen.




PassportSQW100-1/10.3.0.1154 on AT&T

[Lalabum]

I've just looked at the keyboard on my work issued Blackberry Curve (which looks dinky next to my Passport) & with the exception of 0 the number layout is the same


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[ozlonzo]

It is to do with the fact that phones and calculators traditionally have the numbers the opposite way around. So if you want to do a touch screen calculator you put 1 at the bottom and a keyboard one has 1 at the top.

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[rider997]

It's good to see that they're thinking of usability on the Passport



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The visual hints aren't showing up for me after the update, although hitting the physical keys does work.


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[gg bb]

Missed T and Y on the brackets!

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[Mirk]

So if you want to do a touch screen calculator you put 1 at the bottom and a keyboard one has 1 at the top.

Calculators and keyboards have the 1 at the bottom, phones have the 1 at the top. The calculator app is the same as a typical calculator but the rest of the phone is laid out like a keyboard/phone.

The one odd thing is although the calculator layout is different all the mapping is the same as elsewhere on the Passport, except for the + and - keys.

[rider997]

The visual hints aren't showing up for me after the update, although hitting the physical keys does work.


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Actually, it looks like they did two Calculator updates in two days. The very newest one does show the PK hints. The "mirrored" mapping between physical keys and the onscreen numbers is a bit annoying though.

[gg bb]

Think although the numbers are mirrored to the keyboard I don't think BlackBerry could really do anything different.
Having the keys different in calculator would only confuse.

The symbols however seem wrong think we might get another update tomorrow?

T and Y work as () but are not displayed
M works as. But is only displayed on the main calculator screen

+-*/??? What?

Lastly and most odd the extra on screen e that when pressed displays 2
And no its not Eulers number rounded down!

A it of a shame as the Passport has very few bugs or oddities once you get used to it it's very logical well thought out in general.
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[nah.uhh]

Calculators and keyboards have the 1 at the bottom, phones have the 1 at the top. The calculator app is the same as a typical calculator but the rest of the phone is laid out like a keyboard/phone.

The one odd thing is although the calculator layout is different all the mapping is the same as elsewhere on the Passport, except for the + and - keys.

I was going to say.. who chose the +- key location lol

[nah.uhh]

Actually, it looks like they did two Calculator updates in two days. The very newest one does show the PK hints. The "mirrored" mapping between physical keys and the onscreen numbers is a bit annoying though.

Also 2 fb updates (off topic sorry)

[macberry33]

I suppose the update didn't bring thousands separators yet, right?

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[shadeofdawn]

No thousands separators, sorry.

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[ShadowRaine]

They ought to map the phone buttons too. Just for us old fashioned types

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[u4ria]

No thousands separators, sorry.

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This. What's better for usability? Digit separations or letters on a calculator? BlackBerry, give us digit separations!!

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[lonestar1135]

Still doesn't save your tip percentage amount. Have to change the 15% everytime. Would be nice to have the option to save whatever percentage you want.

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[macberry33]

This. What's better for usability? Digit separations or letters on a calculator? BlackBerry, give us digit separations!!

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I totally agree. It�s a business phone.

[macberry33]

From what I see there is still a lot to be developed in this blackberry core app

[Mirk]

You know, I can't think of the last calculator I've used that didn't have the thousand separators.

Edit: I just checked the Icanmakeitbetter site and this was posted 7 months ago... that's kinda sad.

[macberry33]

You know, I can't think of the last calculator I've used that didn't have the thousand separators.

Edit: I just checked the Icanmakeitbetter site and this was posted 7 months ago... that's kinda sad.

7 months show the type of interest that Blackberry has to make sure their phones are actually real business phones.

It takes less than a month to code thousands separator in the app and the only thing they need to do is to update it OTA (it is a simple BlackBerry Core App).

Blackberry response interest and time is trully sad.

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