iPhone Keyboard Usability
Posted on June 11th, 2007 in Usability | 10 Comments »
Users won’t care about iPhone keyboard usability (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes) — “As much as I think that the glass-topped software-powered keyboard on the iPhone looks cool, I keep coming back the one thing that’s important about a keyboard to me – usability. Do I think that the iPhone’s keyboard is going to be an efficient input device? No. Is this going to mean that Apple is going to have a hard time selling iPhones? Probably not.”
I agree. This is a case where usability won’t matter too much, at least for the first few million people. The launch of the iPhone is all about the Cult of the iPhone, simply meaning that “sleek and sexy” will sell this phone. If the interface is too hard for users, then either sales will slow down (duh!) or Apple will make updates and upgrades. My prediction is the latter of the two. Time will tell…
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If the iPhone was a word processor I’d worry about the keyboard. Most of the interaction looks to be designed around not using the keyboard, so I think it’s fair to call the soft keyboard the interface of last resort.
Knowing Apple, there’s no way I would get a first gen iPhone.
Knowing Apple, there’s no way I won’t get a third gen iPhone.
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Currently at the UPA conference and spoke to a person today from a Mobile carrier and we were talking about the iphone.
I said that the keyboard will be one of the most important features of the phone in terms of uptake i.e. how well the keyboard performs.
He responded that its going to be better than the 3 tap approach used on most keypads today on phones to type.
Never thought of this perspective before. Be fun to try it out!
Rather than relying on their aura to sell us the same old technology of touch QWERTY + predictive text (which doesn’t work, especially when you try inputting made up, foreign, jargon, or abbreviated words) apple should get on board with innovative companies like http://www.exideas.com They have the technology to save this high risk roll!
Critics have bashed Apple for omitting Adobe Flash support from the iPhone’s real life Safari browser and with good reason.
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