Android UX: Day 2
January 19th, 2012
I miss the iPhone home button. It is an amazing invention. One press, two presses, press and hold, that’s all you need from a button. I miss that physical affordance and feedback. I know when I’ve done it right.
On my HTC Sensation XL (which I just started using yesterday) I have 4 buttons that give me no indication of how hard and long I need to press, or whether it had worked. It is starting to be annoying.
On the other hand, I am preferring the Android’s on-screen keyboard to iPhones. Firstly the screen is larger so each key is easier to hit accurate, also the press-hold-key to switch it to numbers and common punctuation is excellent. I never liked switching keyboard modes on the iPhone (from characters, to numbers, to common symbols, and other symbols). I am waiting to get my matte screen protector for the HTC the shiny glossy screen makes it more difficult to drag and pinch the interface (I prefer the easy-glide texture of the matte screen protector).
I also like that the speakers on the HTC is built facing forward, not at the slim edge of the iPhone, exactly where I place my hand when I have the phone on landscape rotation.
My HTC does not seem to be as responsive as the iPhone, that is quite irritating.
After my second day, I am still finding the Android interface confusing, although I am starting to get a feel for it; how to get around, how to go back, when to press the menu button.
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