Originally Posted by
Omnitech I'm going to partially disagree here.
I thought the original BB10 phone call screen was horrible, and on a Z10 the "swipe up" gesture to answer a call was a PITA. Because it is a L-O-N-G gesture and you have to use two hands to do it while the phone is firmly gripped stationary in one hand while s-w-i-p-i-n-g u-p with the second.
There's something odd about how people recall the original call Answer/Reject gesture that I've noticed on here, lots of people remember it the wrong way around! It was swipe down to answer and swipe up to reject!
I've said in other threads when the new Android-like call screen was first seen in the 1925 leak that I could see why they viewed the Answer/Reject as a "think point".
When I first tried a Z10 and called it from another phone I couldn't immediately get the gesture right for answering. It wasn't intuitively obviously that you had to hold and drag the grey bar down so I was swiping where the down arrows were and not the grey bar. However once I realised, I found it easy and I liked it because it was different to other mainstream phones. And I've never needed two hands to do it on a Z10, one thumb is enough for me.
I have however seen countless other people make the same mistake I made swiping at the arrows instead of the grey bar at first at work. So the obvious change to make would be to make swiping at the arrows also work for dragging the grey bar down, or up, not change the whole thing completely.
I've heard people say oh it had to be changed for the bigger screen of the Z30 but I've been using 10.2.0 for a month on my Z30 and swiping the bar down from the middle of the screen was no problem for me. I'd be fine with them moving the grey bar down to make both gestures easier to perform from the bottom of the phone and again make swiping the arrows also perform the gestures.
Originally Posted by
Omnitech So I like this new screen because the gesture is "smaller", and potentially even one-handable. (I haven't tested much yet because I have 10.2.1 on my "test" device, I haven't migrated my daily driver to 10.2.1 yet.)
For me I find the new call screen less easy for answering calls one handed as my natural way of holding the phone leaves my thumb above the middle of the screen, where the old grey bar used to appear. So now I have to reach down and squash my thumb down towards my hand to answer a call, less comfortable.
It also failed the "think point" test with the first user I showed it to. She thought the arrows were directing her to tap the bottom left corner of the screen to answer the call, not drag the grey circle to the left. It hasn't made it more intuitive, it's just made it familiar IF you have already used an Android phone that happened to be similar so you've already had to learn by trial error how to answer a call. I'm not sure that counts as a fix.
It's going to take a big green Answer button and a big red Reject button on screen to solve this problem I fear!
Originally Posted by
Omnitech Furthermore, I have never in over 20 years of owning mobile phones had as many "pocket dials" as I have had with my Z10. The way the touchscreen is designed makes it WAY too easy to accidentially hit the phone button in the lower left corner of the screen and end up dialing someone you didn't want to dial.
I've never had mine pocket dial on me. Do you not lock the screen before pocketing? And have a password on it so if it unlocks in your pocket it's at the password screen? That's my setup.
Originally Posted by
Omnitech But in many ways I think the UI people at BlackBery are sort of clueless about a lot of these sorts of things. (Which probably explains why cursor control is so crappy, too. Touch UI cursor control does NOT have to be that dicey.)
Are you thinking of Apple's iOS as an example of how to get touch screen cursor control right? I find their bubble cursor positioner to be very good but text selection and manipulation to be a fiddly nightmare! There are good points and bad points about cursor and text manipulation on every all touch platform I've used to be honest. Nobody has got it all worked out yet.
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