David Duardo skrev:
This is where I ran into trouble As high resolution as the the LCD is,
it simply is too small to be used with a finger based user interface,
which is what most people would want to use on a cellphone because it is
most convenient. At the upper bound, with the Neo1973, you can have 3
columns by 4 rows of buttons that are of a comfortable size (.5x.5
inch^2). Actually, the buttons can be slightly smaller and more compact,
but I'm estimating for people with slightly bigger fingers. You can see
can see what I mean in the following image:
My current phone have a touch screen and a UI designed for stylus.
The QUERTY keyboard is 14 keys wide on a 55mm wide screen (and it has
bevels). That makes 3.9 mm per key. It's a bit painful, but I use it
with fingers all the time (fingernails rather). Keys twice that size
should work just fine.
5 colums and 7 rows of buttons should be usable on the neo... however a
clever UI should generally need less... but that's the density I would
use for text input.
... And my fingers are not huge... but fairly big.
/LaH
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