From: Robert Comer 

>Aside from fitting in, say, a shirt pocket what is wrong with bigger phones
from an
>ergonomic standpoint? Do you dislike holding a bigger phone up to the side of
your
>face because of the weight or because of the size or is that not a problem?

Size and weight both, it's just not handy.  I really don't like lugging it
around in my pocket either. (I usually keep anything like that in my pants
pocket)

>But if the size constraint could magically vanish would you still feel that
way about
>it? Imagine a screen that could be stretched to a bigger size as needed.
Imagine some
>nanofilm that could do that. Would you then use such a  phone for more
purposes?

Maybe, if data connections become a lot faster too.

--
Bob Comer


On Sun, 20 May 2007 09:20:57 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>Robert Comer wrote:
>>> I'd like to have a techie discussion on what to want and avoid in
cellphones and,
>>> more generally, what is wrong in the general philosophy of cellphone
design.
>>
>> Trying to do too much with a tiny screen and extremely limited keypad,
>> but the converse of that is that if they put a bigger screen on it and
>> a decent keypad, it becomes too bulky and expensive.
>
>This seems to be the basic problem with cell phones: to make them useful for
any
>purpose other than as a phone they have to  become bigger. But then they don't
fit in
>your pocket
>
>Aside from fitting in, say, a shirt pocket what is wrong with bigger phones
from an
>ergonomic standpoint? Do you dislike holding a bigger phone up to the side of
your
>face because of the weight or because of the size or is that not a problem?
>
>>
>> All I really need is a phone and that's all I use...
>>
>
>But if the size constraint could magically vanish would you still feel that
way about
>it? Imagine a screen that could be stretched to a bigger size as needed.
Imagine some
>nanofilm that could do that. Would you then use such a  phone for more
purposes?

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